Office Hours, Spring 2008: 11-12 Tuesday and Thursday & by appointment.

A brief  c.v./résumé is available here (pdf).

I joined the CU faculty in 2000 after teaching for many years at the University of Texas at Austin (1983-2000). My interests are  in  cartography and geographic information science particularly Internet-based applications; cultural geography and American landscape history; and issues of geography in higher education particularly instructional technologies and professional development for early career faculty.

I've led a number of instructional materials development projects in the Web including The Geographer's Craft Project and the Virtual Geography Department Project , funded by the National Science Foundation.  My latest NSF project is the Geography Faculty Development Alliance to provide professional development opportunities for early career geography faculty. I am also co-PI on the AAG's Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education (EDGE) Project, also funded by NSF.  I have served as president of the National Council for Geographic Education (2006),  a national councilor of the Association of American Geographers and received the AAG's Gilbert Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education in 2005.

Much of my research in cultural geography focuses on issues of how events of violence and tragedy are marked (or not marked) in landscape.  Debate over commemoration is often highly contentious and can expose deep divides within society over how to interpret and represent the past.  I am also very interested in the development of national commemorative traditions in the U.S. and Europe. Some of my writings on these issues includes my book Shadowed Ground: America's Landscape of Tragedy and Violence (1997 and 2003) and the article "Hungary after 1989: Inscribing a New Past on Place" co-authored with Attila Tóth and Anett Árvay. 

In my spare time I rehearse and perform early music on flute, recorder, and viola da gamba.  My wife and I have twin boys born in February 2003.  When we can manage it, we foster and adopt ex-racing greyhounds and whippets.