Donald W. Meinig, Maxwell Research Professor Emeritus Ph. D. Geography, University of Washington (1953) M. A. Geography, University of Washington (1950) B. S. Foreign Service, Georgetown University (1948)

Academic Appointments
1990 to present, Maxwell Research Professor of Geography, Syracuse University
1973-89, Maxwell Professor of Geography, Syracuse University
1968-73, Professor and Chairman, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
1962-68, Professor of Geography, Syracuse University
1959-62, Associate Professor of Geography, Syracuse University
1950-59, Instructor, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Utah
1949-50, Teaching Associate, Department of Geography, University of Washington

Principal Publications
The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 3: Transcontinental America, 1850-1915 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1995).

The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History, Volume 2, Continental America, 1800-1867 (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1992).

A Life of Learning, The Charles Homer Haskins Lecture (American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper, No. 19, 1992).

"Geography as an Art" President's Guest Lecture, Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 3rd Series, Vol. 8, 1983: 314-328.

Editor The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes (New York, Oxford University Press, 1979).

Southwest: Three Peoples in Geographical Change 1600-1970 (New York, Oxford University Press, 1971).

Editor, On Geography: Selected Writings of Preston E. James (Syracuse, Syracuse University Press, 1970).

Imperial Texas, An Interpretative Essay in Cultural Geography (Austin, University of Texas Press, 1969).

The Great Columbia Plain, A Historical Geography, 1805- 1910 (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1968).

On the Margins of the Good Earth, The South Australian Wheat Frontier 1869-1884 (Monograph Series, No. 2, Association of American Geographers, 1962).

Invited Presentations
The John Treacy Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin, 1993
The Charles Homer Haskins Lecture, American Council of Learned Societies, 1992
The Sheldon Pollack Annual Lecture, Montclair State College, 1992
The Edwin H. Hammond Lecture, University of Tennessee, 1991
The Skotheim Lecture, Whitman College, 1989
President's Plenary Lecturer, Association of American Geographers, Phoenix, 1988
Trewartha Memorial Lecture, University of Wisconsin, 1988
The Anglo-American Lecture, University of Sheffield, 1986
North American Lectures, University College, Cork, 1984
Keynote Lecture, CUKANZUS Historical Geography Conference, University of Oxford, 1983
Carl O. Sauer Memorial Lecture, University of California, Berkeley, 1983
President's Guest Lecture, Institute of British Geographers, Edinburgh, 1983