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Academic
Appointments
1998—,
Distinguished Professor of Geography
1979-98, Professor of Geography
1973-79, Associate Professor of Geography
1970-73, Assistant Professor [State University of New York at Albany]
1969-70, Assistant Professor [University of Rhode Island] Principal
Research Interests
Geographic Information and Society: critical examination of maps as analytical
and persuasive tools in homeland security, journalism, politics, public
administration, and science; legal and ethical issues in intellectual property,
liability, privacy, and public access; mapping policy at the state and national
levels.
History of Cartography in
the Twentieth Century: critical analysis of map use in a historical context;
historical geography of mapping; technological and societal influences on
cartographic form and content; historiography of cartography. Editor,
Volume Six (the Twentieth Century), History of Cartography [research currently sponsored by a grant from the Science and
Technology Studies Program, National Science Foundation].
Map Design: creative and
expository uses of cartographic generalization, map projection, and retinal
variables; multimedia and internet cartography; coordination of maps and
statistical graphics.
Environmental Cartography: risk mapping of natural and technological hazards;
coastal and meteorological cartography; geographic analysis and the siting of
locally objectionable facilities.
Principal
Publications
Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World
and Chart Environmental Change
(Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2008).
From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps
Name, Claim, and Inflame (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2006).
Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History
of the Mercator Projection (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2004).
Spying with
Maps: Surveillance Technologies and the Future of Privacy
(Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2002).
Bushmanders and
Bullwinkles: How Politicians Manipulate Electronic Maps and Census Data to Win
Elections
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001).
Air Apparent: How
Meteorologists Learned to Map, Predict, and Dramatize Weather
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
Cartographies of
Danger: Mapping Hazards in America
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997).
Drawing the Line: Tales
of Maps and Cartocontroversy (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1995).
Mapping It Out:
Expository Cartography for the Humanities and Social Sciences
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
How to Lie with Maps
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991;
2nd edition, 1996). Also published in translation in Czech, French, German,
Japanese, and Korean.
Maps with the News: The
Development of American Journalistic Cartography
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989).
Map Appreciation
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1988). (with G. A. Schnell)
Technological
Transition in Cartography (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985).
The Study of
Population: Elements, Patterns, and Processes (Columbus, OH: Charles E. Merrill, 1983). (with G.
A. Schnell)
Computer-assisted
Cartography: Principles and Prospects (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1982).
Recent Lectures and
Keynote Addresses
“Persuasive
Cartography in the Era of the Internet,”
on May 30, 2008, in Barcelona, Spain, as closing
keynote speaker at II Congrés Català de Geografia (Second Catalan Geographic
Conference).
“Mapping
Hazards in America: Earthquakes, Coastal Storms, and Sea Level Rise,” on March
12, 2008, in New York, at the New York Society for Ethical Culture; co-sponsored
by the New York Map Society.
“Sea Level Rise,
Environmental Risk, and Rhetorical Cartography,” on November 4, 2007, in
Chicago, IL, in the Mapping and Global Environment panel at the Newberry Library
as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival.
“The Four Shorelines of
Coastal Cartography: From Navigation Tool to Inundation Forecast,” on July 12, 2007, in
Berne, Switzerland, at the International Conference on the History of
Cartography.
“Cartography in
the Twentieth Century: A Progress Report on Volume Six of the History of
Cartography,” on March 9, 2006, in
Chicago, IL, at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
“Cartography
after 1900 and the Design of Cartography in the Twentieth Century,” on
July 18, 2005, in
Budapest, Hungary, at the 21st International Conference on the History of
Cartography.
“Geographic
Aspects of Location Tracking with RFID and GPS,” on October 14, 2004, in
Chicago, IL, at the symposium Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a
Technological Age, sponsored by the Center for Intellectual Property Law and
Information Technology, at DePaul University.
“Maps as Graphic Propaganda for Public Health,” on October 17, 2003, in
Bethesda, MD, on the campus of the National Institutes of Health, at the
symposium Visual Culture and Public Health, sponsored by the History of Medicine
Division of the National Library of Medicine.
“Practical
and Emblematic Roles of the American Polyconic Projection,” on June 17, 2003, in
Cambridge, MA, at the 20th International Conference on the History of
Cartography.
“Cartographies of Surveillance,” on May 24, 2003, at the workshop “Maps: Here,
Then, Now” held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, and sponsored by the Peter Wall
Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia.
“Geospatial
Technology, Racial Politics, and the Supreme Court’s Equal-Population
Constraint: A Recipe for Bizarre Boundaries?” on April 24, 2003, in
Philadelphia, PA, at the Annenberg School for Communication, for a lecture the
Racial Statistics Seminar series.
“Maps in
Meteorology: Historical Roots and Cartographically Exceptional Map-Use
Environment,” on March 29, 2003, in Providence, RI, at the annual meeting of the
American Society for Environmental History.
"Best and Worst Uses of
Mapping," on March 14, 2002, in Philadelphia, PA at the 2002 National
Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR) Conference.
“Redistricting in the
Electronic Age: Bushmanders and Bullwinkles,” on 10 December 2001, in
Indianapolis, IN, at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, for
the Fourth Bulen Symposium on American Politics.
“Maps in the Media: News, Factoids, Explanations, and Entertainment,” at the
Second Virginia Garrett Lectures (and as keynote address for the annual meeting
of the Texas Map Society), on 6 October 2000, in Arlington, TX, at the
University of Texas at Arlington.
“Cartographic Narratives, Openness, and the New Technology,” at the Thirteenth
Kenneth Nebenzahl, Jr., Lectures in the History of Cartography [theme: Narrative
and Maps: Historical Studies of Cartographic Storytelling], on 30 October 1999,
in Chicago, IL, at the Newberry Library.
“Cartographies of Danger: Hazard-Zone Mapping in the United States,” on 5 April
1995, in Milwaukee, WI-as the 1995 Arthur Holzheimer Lecture at the Golda Meir
Library, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee.
Keynote, luncheon, or banquet speaker at GIS meetings in Champaign-Urbana, IL
(GIS and Libraries, 1995), Stevenson, WA (Northwest ARC/INFO Users Conference,
1996), Harrisburg, PA (Pennsylvania Geographic Information Systems Conference,
1997), Denver, CO (National Symposium on the Use of GIS in Criminal Justice
Research and Practice, 1997), Lincoln, NE (Mid America GIS Symposium, 1998), St.
Cloud, MN (Minnesota GIS/LIS Conference, 1998), Winston-Salem, NC (North
Carolina Geographic Information Systems Conference, 1999), Baltimore, MD (Towson
University’s Annual Geographic Information Sciences Conference, 2000),
Skaneateles, NY (NASA's Regional Application Center for the Northeast, 2001),
Waterloo, Ontario (Canadian Cartographic Association, annual meeting, 2002),
Columbus, OH (North American Cartographic Information Society, annual meeting,
2002), Albany, NY (19th annual New York State Geographic Information Systems
Conference, 2003), Iowa City, IA (Prostate Cancer Geocoding Conference, 2004),
Vancouver, BC (2005 Geo Tec Event), Helena, MT (Intermountain GIS Conference,
2006), Danvers, MA (New England GIS Conference, 2006), and Ithaca, NY (Cornell
University’s 2006 GIS Day).
Geography colloquium, banquet, or featured Geography Awareness Week speaker at
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (1995), Pennsylvania State University
(1995), University of Connecticut (1996), Rutgers University (1997), University
of Nebraska-Lincoln (1998), University of Nebraska-Omaha (1998), University of
Oklahoma (1999-featured speaker for Geosciences Week, with additional lectures
in the departments of geology and meteorology), Microsoft Corporation (1999),
Ohio State University (2001), Central Michigan University (2003), University of
Southern Maine (2003), University of California at Santa Barbara (2004), the
Pennsylvania State University (2006), and Kent State University (2006).
Additional invited lectures at Cambridge, MA (Adventure Travel Lecture Series,
Globe Corner Bookstore, 1998), New Brunswick, NJ (School of Communication,
Information and Library Science, Rutgers University, 1998), Palisades, NY
(Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory/Columbia University, 2000), Troy, NY (School
of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2000), Wilkes-Barre, PA
(Middle States Division, Association of American Geographers, 2000), Chicago, IL
(The Newberry Library, NEH-sponsored summer institute, 2001),
Santa Fe, NM (Santa Fe Art Institute, 2002), Clinton, NY (Hamilton College—HILL
[Hamilton Information and Learning Liaisons] Group, 2003), Grantville, PA
(Pennsylvania Academy of Science, annual banquet, 2003), Fayetteville, NY
(Syracuse Chapter of Sigma Xi, annual banquet, 2003), Syracuse, NY (CNY
Skeptics, 2004), New York, NY (Discussion Across Disciplines: An Academic
Roundtable, at the Paul Milstein Center for Real Estate, Columbia University,
2004), DeWitt, NY (DeWitt Rotary Club, 2007), and Fayetteville, NY (Syracuse
Chapter of Sigma Xi, annual banquet, 2008).
Awards
Charles E.
Hosler Alumni Scholar Medal, The Pennsylvania
State University, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, April 2007.
Globe Book Award
for Public Understanding of Geography, for Spying with Maps (2002),
Association of American Geographers, March 2004.
Award of Distinction for
Exceptional Scholarly Contribution to the Field of Cartography, Canadian
Cartographic Association, May 2002.
O. M. Miller Medal, “for
outstanding contributions in the field of cartography,” American Geographical
Society, March 2001.
Distinguished Geographer
Award, Pennsylvania Geographical Society, October 2000.
Media Achievement Award,
“for monographs, articles, and newspaper reports that have engaged the interest
of non-geographers and geographers in the design, construction, and
interpretation of maps,” Association of American Geographers, April 2000.
Appointed Distinguished
Professor of Geography, Syracuse University, February 1998.
Centennial Fellow, College
of Earth and Mineral Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, October 1996.
Chancellor’s Citation for
Exceptional Academic Achievement, Syracuse University, February 1993.
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1984-85.
Twenty
Selected Journal Articles [with notes on intent and possible significance]
“Aerial Photography at the
Agricultural Adjustment Administration: Acreage Controls, Conservation Benefits,
and Overhead Surveillance in the 1930s,” Photogrammetric Engineering and
Remote Sensing, v. 76 (2002): 1257-61 [in the service of New Deal efforts to
save the family farm, overhead imaging becomes a tool of measurement and
government surveillance—with no apparent resistance].
“The Way Cartography Was: A
Snapshot of Mapping and Map Use in 1900,” Historical Geography 28 (2000):
157–78 (with Elizabeth Puhl) [a cursory base-line for evaluating cartographic
change in the twentieth century].
“The Three R’s of GIS-Based
Site Selection: Representation, Resistance, and Ridicule,” in D. R. Fraser
Taylor, ed., Policy Issues in Modern Cartography (Kidlington, Oxford:
Pergamon, 1998), 233–47 [local people can resist the presumed power of data-rich
predators].
“Temporal Generalization for
Dynamic Maps,” Cartography and Geographic Information Systems 23 (1996):
96–98 [cartographic generalization has a neglected time dimension].
“Using SUSS to Resolve NIMBY:
How Spatial Understanding Support Systems Can Help with the ‘Not in My Back
Yard’ Syndrome,” Geographical Systems 2 (1995): 83–101 (with Helen
Couclelis) [how interactive geospatial technology can minimize fear and help
negotiate solutions].
“Authoring Graphic Scripts:
Experiences and Principles,” Cartography and Geographic Information Systems,
v. 19 (1992): 247–60, 272 [introduces the ‘graphic script’ as a narrative
sequence of maps, text, and statistical graphics].
“Geographic concentration and
regional trends in the book publishing industry, 1963–1987,” Publishing
Research Quarterly 8.3 (1992): 62–71 (with George Schnell) [asks “What can
the Census of Manufactures tell us about the geography of the book
publishing industry?”].
“Directional Profiles and
Rose Diagrams to Complement Centrographic Cartography,” Journal of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Science 66 (1992): 29–34 [exploratory analysis of
spatial data might benefit from an enhanced form of summary graphics].
“Graphically Encoded
Knowledge Bases for Expert-Guided Feature Generalization in Cartographic Display
Systems,” International Journal of Expert Systems: Research and Applications
3 (1990): 65–71 [small-scale generalizations, including deliberate caricatures,
are a form of spatial knowledge useful in guiding automated generalization].
“Newspaper Circulation Areas
in Central New York: a Geographic Refinement of the Umbrella Hypothesis,”
Journal of the Pennsylvania Academy of Science 64.1 (1990): 46–51 [field
work that confirms a spatial theory in communications economics also reveals
significant secondary influences; a spin-off of the Guggenheim-funded
journalistic cartography project].
“Regionalizing and Matching
Features for Interpolated Displacement in the Automated Generalization of
Digital Cartographic Databases,” Cartographica 26.2 (1989): 21–39
[automated generalization of line features using an existing smaller-scale
representation as a guide].
“Geographic Brushing:
Enhancing Exploratory Analysis of the Scatterplot Matrix,” Geographical
Analysis 21 (1989): 81–84 [initial foray into interactive exploratory data
analysis].
“Raster-Mode Area
Generalization for Land Use and Land Cover Maps,” Cartographica 20.4
(1983): 65–91 [exploring area generalization while everyone else is looking at
line generalization].
“Topographic Map Coverage of
Pennsylvania: a Study in Cartographic Evolution,” Proceedings of the
Pennsylvania Academy of Science 56.1 (1982): 61–66 [the history of
cartography meets historical geography].
“Flat Laxity, Optimization,
and Rounding in the Selection of Class Intervals,” Cartographica 19.1
(1982): 16–27 [given a numerical measurement of ‘goodness’, the ‘best’ solution
might not be much better than numerous nearly as good solutions with other
merits].
“Street Maps and
Private-Sector Map Making: a Case Study of Two Firms.” Cartographica 18.3
(1981): 34–52 [a look at spatial competition and entrepreneurial style; the
history of cartography meets economic geography].
“The Hopeless Pursuit of
Purification in Cartographic Communication: a Comparison of Graphic-Arts and
Perceptual Distortions of Graytone Symbols,” Cartographica 17.1 (1980):
24–39 [an early nail in the psychophysical coffin].
“Viewing Azimuth and Map
Clarity,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 68 (1978):
180–95 [senior faculty considered an article in the Annals essential for
promotion to full professor, so . . . ].
“Maximum-Difference Barriers: an Alternative Numerical
Regionalization Method,” Geographical Analysis 5 (1973): 245–61 [the
“Monmonier algorithm,” as discussed in Franz Manni, Etienne Guérard, and Evelyne
Heyer, “Geographic Patterns of (Genetic, Morphologic, Linguistic) Variation: How
Barriers Can Be Detected by Using Monmonier’s Algorithm,” Human Biology 76
(2004): 173-90].
“Digitized Map Measurement and Correlation Applied to an
Example in Crop Ecology,” Geographical Review 61 (1971): 51–71 [an early
application of computerized overlay analysis and digital elevation and
land-cover maps anticipates GIS]. |
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