717 Batten Arts and Letters BuildingPh.D. in Geography, Rutgers University. Professor of Geography at Old Dominion University, 1990 to present. Associate Professor 1984-1990. Director of the Geography Program, 1979-83, and 1987. Director of the Model United Nations Program, 1988 to 1993. Past member of the Executive Board of the National Council for Geographic Education. Director, NEH Institutes on La Francophonie.
Areas of Teaching (undergraduate and graduate levels)
- Cultural, political, environmental geography
- America in an interdependent world
- Asia, Africa, Middle East
- World resources
- International resource management
- Women in developing countries
Publications
Experience Abroad
- Book: National Integration in Indonesia (University of Hawaii Press, 1989)
- Numerous articles and book reviews in national and international refereed journals
Grants and Awards
- Lived in England, Switzerland, Sudan, Netherlands, and Indonesia.
- Traveled extensively in Africa, Caribbean, Europe, and Asia.
- Third World Faculty Development Seminar 1980-82 and Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to Côte d'Ivoire and Tanzania, 1983.
- Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to U.A.E., Oman, and N. Yemen, 1987.
- E. Asian Seminar and travel program to China and Japan, 1989.
- Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award, National Council for Geographic Education, 1984.
- Founding member of ODU's honors faculty.
- Phi Kappa Phi and Golden Key National Honor Society.
- Distinguished Scholar Award in Geography, Virginia Social Science Association
- NEH grants 1993, 1994, and 1997 for La Francophonie Summer Institutes.
- Fulbright Scholar in Indonesia, 1996.
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