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’, p181-221 in Michael Grossman and Naci Mocan, eds., ‘Economic aspects of obesity’, University of Chicago, 2011. Originally published as 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
— Graduate Summer Research Mentorship, University of California Los Angeles, 2010
— University Fellowship, University of California Los Angeles, 2009
— University Fellowship, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, 2007
ADVISORS
John Agnew
Michael Curry
Stephen Bell
Martin Lewis
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
— ‘World regions, reconsidered and redefined’, national conference of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, 2011 April.
— ‘Region types and region concepts’, national conference of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, 2010 April.
— ‘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.
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