A professor in the Department of Geography at UCLA, Dr. Curry has been a member of the faculty there since 1988.  He holds a BA in liberal arts from New College, BAs in philosophy and geography from the University of Minnesota, and an MA and PhD in geography from Minnesota.

Originally from Arkansas, he has lived in a dozen states and five countries.  Before coming to UCLA he worked in a number of positions, among them, as an architectural draftsman, furniture maker, cartographer, and college vice president. Since coming to UCLA he has, in addition, been a visiting faculty member at a number of institutions, including Edinburgh University, Rutgers, and most recently at Harvard’s Program on Information Resource Policy.

His research is on the history of geographical concepts--space and place--and on the geographical implications of information technologies.  The author of The work in the world: Geographical practice and the written word (Minnesota, 1996) and Digital places: Living with geographic information technologies (Routledge, 1998), he is currently engaged in an NSF-funded project on the privacy implications of new geographical technologies and on a book, whose working title is A world without maps.