Department of Geography

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1971, Geography

Specialty Areas of Interest:

Cultural Geography
Cultural Ecology
Cultural Impact on Industrial Decisions and Management
East Asia

Current BGSU Courses:

World Regional: Eurasia and Africa
Cultural Geography
Principles of Conservation Ecology

Recent Peer Reviewed Publications and Submissions:

The Spatial Distribution of Elderly and Need for Services in Lucas County, Ohio, paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March, 2004,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (with Bruce Smith)

The Differential Geographic Distribution of Groups of Older Individuals in Lucas County, Ohio, paper presented at the Ohio Academy of Science Meeting, April, 2003, Findlay, Ohio (with Bruce Smith)

Collaborative Efforts to Enrich Junior High School Social Studies Instructions: A Case Study of East Toledo, Ohio, paper presented at the East  Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers, October, 2001 (with Karen Johnson-Webb,Kefa Otiso, and Bruce Smith)