Donald J. Zeigler

Professor of Geography
Old Dominion University - Virginia Beach

203 Virginia Beach Higher Education Center
1881 University Drive
Virginia Beach, VA 23453
Tel. 757-368-4113
E-mail: dzeigler@odu.edu

Professor Zeigler (Ph.D., Michigan State) has been teaching at Old Dominion since 1980, first on the main campus and now on the Virginia Beach campus. In 2006 , he was honored with a Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. In 1997, he served as President of the National Council for Geographic Education. He has also served as President of the Virginia Social Science Association and the Virginia Geographical Society. In 1986, he co-founded the Virginia Geographic Alliance and continues to serve on its steering committee. In the Association of American Geographers, he headed the drive to create the Middle East Specialty Group. Currently, he chairs the national development committee for Advanced Placement Human Geography. He is also national Vice-President of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the international honorary geographical society. His research interests have recently focused on the Middle East, political, and urban geography, but he has also been active in hazards, particularly evacuations from nuclear threats.

Specialties:

• The Middle East
• Urban Geography
• Political Geography
• Marine and Coastal Geography

Courses Taught:

• GEOG 100S: Cultural Geography
• GEOG 300: Maps and Geographic Information
• GEOG 320: Political Geography
• GEOG 412/512: Cities of the World
• GEOG 420/520: Marine Geography
• GEOG 422/522: Coastal Geography
• GEOG 455: The Middle East
• GEOG 695: Geography in World History

Recent Publications:

• Israel. Modern World Nations Series. New York: Chelsea House, 2006 (2nd ed.) and 2003 (1st ed.).
• “Twentieth Century World Leaders: An Analysis of Virginia’s Standards of Learning.” Virginia Social Science Journal 41 (2006): 35-43.
• “Political Organization of Space.” In Focus on Human Geography, ed. C. M. Lockwood. Jacksonville, Ala.: National Council for Geographic Education, 2005. pp. 43-44.
• "A Geographical Content Analysis of the US National Standards in Civics and Government." In Geography and Citizenship Education: Research Perspectives. London: University of London Institute of Education, 2004. pp. 164-174.
• Cities of the World, 3^rd ed.  Boulder, Colo.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.  (Edited with S. D. Brunn and J. F. Williams).  Forthcoming.
  
• “From Prime Numbers to Place Names: A New Use for Eratosthenes’ Sieve.” California Geographer 43 (2003): 56-64.
• "New York City: Forty Days and Counting." Proteus: A Journal of Ideas (2002): forthcoming.
  
• "Post-Communist Eastern Europe and the Cartography of Independence."  Political Geography 21 (June 2002): 671-686.
  

Experience Abroad:

"Geography Connects" Course Development Grants for travel to countries in Europe and the Middle East (200-2005), Prince William Network.

Academic Director (1996-2001), Travel Seminars to Russia, Peru, and various countries in the Middle East.

Post-Doctoral Fellow (2001), American Centers of Oriental Research, Amman, Jordan.

Visiting Scholar (1993), Aleppo University, Aleppo, Syria, USIA Affiliation Grant.

Malone Fellow (1991-92), National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations (UAE and Bahrain).

Fulbright-Hays Scholar (1989), Group Project Abroad, Morocco.