College Professor of Distinction, Professor of Geography and Faculty Research Associate, Political and Economic Change Program, Institute of Behavioral Science
John O'Loughlin received his Ph.D. in Geography from the Pennsylvania State University in 1973. His research interests are in the spatial analysis of conflict and the political geography of the post-Soviet Union, including Russian and Ukrainian geopolitics, Eurasian quasi-states, and ethno-territorial nationalisms. He has also published on the diffusion of democracy, electoral geography, and the electoral geography of Nazi Germany. He is editor-in-chief of Political Geography. He teaches undergraduate classes in Political Geography, Geographies of Global Change, and the Geography of Western Europe, and graduate classes in Political Geography. He serves on the Advisory Committee of the International Affairs undergraduate program.
Current Courses
Geography 4712: Political Geography (Fall 2009)
