The Places OnLine Editorial Team
Jaime M. Avila (M.A., University of California, Davis) has taught introductory geography courses at Sacramento City College and American River College as adjunct faculty. His area of interest is the U.S. Southwest and Mesoamerica, specializing in Native American cultures. He retired in 2002 from California Department of Transportation as an Environmental Planner. His travels included trips to many Indian reservations in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico; Chile and Argentina; England, Germany, Denmark, Spain, France and Italy. He lives near San Luis Obispo in the California Central Coast and is a docent at Pismo State Beach.
Yasser Ayad (Ph. D., University of Montreal) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Geography and Earth Sciences at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. His main research and teaching interests are in Geographic Information Systems and its applications especially in the areas of landscape ecology, property and facilities management, and environmental and regional planning. Yasser was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt.
Geoffrey DeVerteuil (Ph. D., University of Southern California) is a Lecturer at the School of Geography, University of Southampton. He was at the University of Manitoba from 2001 to 2007. His research focuses on urban geography (global cities, homelessness, facility location, welfare provision) and health geography (mental health mobilities, therapeutic landscapes, substance abuse treatment). He is also an avid urban photographer and tour guide, and has co-authored books on downtown Los Angeles and the USC neighborhood.
Joshua Hagen (Ph. D., University of Wisconsin) is Associate Professor of Geography at Marshall University. He has broad research interests related to Europe, including geographies of national identity and territoriality; historical preservation and places of memory; and architecture, urban design, and political authority. He is currently co-editing a book, tentatively titled Border Lines: The History and Politics of Odd International Boundaries, to be published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Tom Hankins (Ph. D., Clark University) is Professor of Information Systems at Marshall University. He came to the West Virginia Graduate College in 1973 to start a master’s program in Environmental Studies where he taught for ten years, moved to the Information Systems master’s program in the mid-1980s, and became a member of the Marshall faculty when the two schools merged in 1997. He is a certified planner (AICP), a 30-year member of the Putnam County WV Planning Commission, and has authored programming texts in Basic and Prolog.
Richard Katz (M. A., Antioch University, Seattle) is originally from Montreal, Canada where he earned a degree from McGill University. He now teaches geography at Seattle's Washington Middle School and instructs future teachers at Antioch University how to teach social studies with a big emphasis on including geography throughout the curriculum. He has a broad interest in all things geographic including expanding AP human geography in high schools and regional interests in sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, China, Canada, and the Pacific Northwest.
Oscar Larson is Conference Director at the Association of American Geographers.
Michael W. Longan (Ph. D., University of Colorado) is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Meteorology at Valparaiso University. His research interests focus on community networking and other place-based uses of the Internet. His broader specialties include: cultural geography, urban geography, communications geography, landscape, neighborhood and community activism, cyberspace, and East Asia.
Alaric Maude (Ph. D., Australian National University) is Associate Professor of Geography at Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia, and Secretary of the Institute of Australian Geographers. He retired in 2004, but continues to undertake some teaching and supervision of graduate students. His current research is on environmentally sustainable regional development, and ways of integrating environmental objectives into regional development programs.
Francis Owusu (Ph. D., University of Minnesota) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Community and Regional Planning at Iowa State University. He teaches courses on development, economic and urban planning, and research and planning methods. His research focuses on globalization and the developing world; urban livelihood strategies; and public sector reforms.
Douglas Richardson is Executive Director of the Association of American Geographers.
Curtis C. Roseman (Ph. D., University of Iowa) is Professor Emeritus of Geography, University of Southern California. He was at the University of Illinois from 1969-1985 and at USC from 1985-2004. His research and teaching interests center migration, ethnic group settlements. Los Angeles, and the Upper Midwest. His recent publications include a co-edited a book, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River, and co-authored books on downtown Los Angeles and on the USC neighborhood and campus.
H. Todd Stradford (Ph. D., University of Oklahoma) is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville. His interests include: social construction of nature and environment in Japanese landscapes; and social and environmental impacts of Japanese investments in the Asia-Pacific region; problems facing the Japanese rural environments; and remote sensing, GIS, and cartography.
