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John O'Loughlin

Lenin and me in Makhachkala (Dagestan), October 2006

John O'Loughlin

E-mail
johno@colorado.edu

Phone
(303) 492-1619 (voice) 
(303) 492-3609 (fax)

Postal Address
Professor John O'Loughlin
Institute of Behavioral Science 
Campus Box 487
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO.  80309-0487

Biography

John O'Loughlin, Professor of Geography and Faculty Research Associate in the Institute of Behavioral Science, received his Ph.D. in Geography from the Pennsylvania State University in 1973. His research interests are in the political geography of the post-Soviet Union, including Russian and Ukrainian geopolitics and ethno-territorialial nationalisms. He has also published on the diffusion of democracy, electoral geography, the geography of conflict, and the political geography of Nazi Germany. He is editor 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.

Curriculum Vitae

PDF format.

Recent Publications and Pre-publications

The Dynamics of Civil War Outcomes: Bosnia and the North Caucasus

A project supported by the National Science Foundation's Human and Social Dynamics Initiative. Here is the grant abstract.

Maps

This link offers three series of maps that have appeared in recent publications. The maps are for Weimar Germany (PDF), Ukraine, and Moscow. The Moscow set contains about 25 maps showing socio-economic polarization across the 125 rayoni (districts) of the city in the period 1995-1999.

Courses

  • Geography 4712: Political Geography (Fall 2007)
  • Geography 2002: Geographies of Global Change (Spring 2007)
  • IAFS 4500/Geography 4742: The Post-Cold War World - Putin's Russia (Spring 2008)
    Outline in PDF format.
  • Geography 4892: Geography of Western Europe (Summer 2008)
    Outline in PDF format.
  • Geography 6712: Seminar in Political Geography- Nationalism (Spring 2008)
    Outline in PDF format.