O.T. Ford
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E-mail: ford [at] ucla [dot] edu
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EDUCATION

MS, Geography, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, 2009. BA, Generalism in world affairs, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, 2004.

SUBFIELDS

World geography; geographic thought; regionalization; interdisciplinary geography; political geography; cultural geography.

NOTES

I have always considered myself a generalist; other recognized fields in which I take a strong interest include linguistics, political science, history, and philosophy. Research interests outside of geography include recent history and current events, writing systems, native names, ethics, and metaphysics.

RESEARCH

My primary concern is regionalization in human geography at the global scale. Additional concerns are the regionalization process in general, including physical and historical applications, and geographic names.

PUBLICATIONS

― Robert Sandy, Gilbert Liu, John Ottensmann, Rusty Tchernis, Jeff Wilson, O.T. Ford. ‘Studying the child obesity epidemic with natural experiments’, National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 14989, 2009.
― Jeffrey S. Wilson, James J. Brokaw, Eric R. Wright, Rudy Banerjee, O.T. Ford, Sharron P. Grannis, Shawn C. Hoch, Anthony H. Lawson, Peter M. Nalin, Michael Rinebold, Terrell W. Zollinger. ‘Indiana Physician Mapping Project’. Geographic Information Science Research Center, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, 2007.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

― University Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, 2009
― University Fellowship, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, 2007

ADVISORS

John Agnew

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

― ‘Governments de facto and the border concept’, national conference of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, 2008 April.
― ‘Ethnologue and the language-dialect question’, conference of the Central States Anthropological Society, Indianapolis, 2008 March.