J. Nicholas Entrikin
Department of Geography
1255 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
t: 310.825.7334
f: 310.206.5976
email: ENTRIKIN@GEOG.UCLA.EDU
office: 1121 BUNCHE

EDUCATION

Ph.D. Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1975

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural Geography
Geography Thought
Environmentalism
Geography of Europe

GRANTS

Principal Investigator, “Geographical Literacy with an English-Learner Focus”, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education, $460,000

AWARDS

-John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship,1984.
-Wallace W. Atwood Lecturer, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, 1988.
-Honorary Visiting Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), IRSAM-S.E.T., Université de Pau et Pays de L’Adour, France,1994.

GRAD STUDENTS

-Choon Piew Pow, (2006, Assistant Prof., National University of Singapore)
-Timothy Fargo, ABD
-Nicolas Howe, ABD (NSF Graduate Fellow)
-John Neff, ABD (Co-Chair)
-John Slifko, ABD
-Pablo Fuentenebro
-Justin Wilford

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

“Place Destruction and Cultural Trauma”. In J.Alexander and I. Reed, editors, Culture in the World V. 1: Cultural Sociology and the Democratic Imperative. Yale Cultural Sociology Series, Paradigm Press: Boulder, forthcoming.

“The Pyrenees as Place: Lefebvre as Guide” (with Vincent Berdoulay), Progress in Human Geography, 29, 2005, 129-47.

The Marshall Plan Today: Model and Metaphor, (co-edited with John Agnew). London: Routledge Publishers, 2004.

“Political Community, Identity and Cosmopolitan Place” International Sociology 14, 1999, 269-282. Re-printed in Mabel Berezin and Martin Schain, editors, Re-mapping Europe, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

“Democratic Place-Making and Multiculturalism,” Geografiska Annaler, Series B, 84, 2002, 19-25.

The Characterization of Place. Wallace W. Atwood Lecture, Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, Clark University Press, Worcester, Mass., 1992.

The Betweenness of Place: Toward a Geography of Modernity. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991.

Reflections on Richard Hartshorne's The Nature of Geography (co-edited with Stanley Brunn). Occasional Publications, Association of American Geographers, 1989