Anne E. Mosher, Associate Professor of Geography Senior Research Fellow, Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs amosher@maxwell.syr.edu   Ph.D. (Geography) The Pennsylvania State University, 1989 M.S. (Geography) The Pennsylvania State University, 1983 B. A. Honors (Geography, International Studies), magna cum laude, Macalester College, 1981

Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Syracuse University, 1998-
Assistant Professor, Syracuse University, 1995-1998
Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University, 1990-1995

Selected Awards/Honors
J. Warren Nystrom Dissertation Award, Association of American Geographers (for "Capital Transformation and the Restructuring of Place:  The Creation of a Model Industrial Town."), 1991

Most Distinguished Course for College Credit in Independent Learning, 1987-1988, National University Continuing Education Association (author's award for Human Geography--An Introduction)

Research and Teaching Interests
—urban and regional planning in the U.S. and E.U.:  policies, politics, professional practices and their landscape and community implications
—multi-scalar geographies of intergovernmental relations in the U.S. and E.U., 1789 to the present
—critical geography of place commodification and heritage tourism
—feminist cognitive mapping, critical cartography and the contestation of place memories
—multi-scalar dynamics of industrial restructuring
—geographical history and historical research methods in geography

Work in Progress (2006)
“Maps as Stories:  Rome, New York,” an exhibition to be installed at the Rome Historical Society, Rome, NY, October 2006. (with Anne E. Munly, Syracuse University School of Architecture)

“The Syracuse Dialogues,” script/guidebook for a group walking tour/oral history performance in Downtown Syracuse, New York (based on spatialized oral history research conducted by the students of Geography 500—Fall 2004).

“The Geographical Dialectics of American Policy Regimes and the Un-Building of the Erie Canal, 1835-2000,” chapter manuscript in preparation for a volume edited by John Heppen and Samuel Otterstrom entitled Historical Approaches to the Geographic Restructuring of the American Political Economy. 

“Geographies of Cooperative Federalism at the Dawn of the New Deal (Or, How the Erie Canal Got Lost),” journal manuscript in preparation.

“U.S. National Heritage Areas as a form of New Regionalism,” journal manuscript in preparation.

Cognitive Mapping and Urban Trauma:  Working Through in the Aftermath of Demilitarization and Urban Renewal   (with Anne Munly, Syracuse University School of Architecture). Note: to hear a discussion of this work and how it relates to sustainable urban design, go to:  National Public Radio's "Talk of the Nation:  Science Friday," 19 May 2006, Hour Two: "Sustainable Cities and Ecological Urban Design"

The Erie Canal and the Shifting Geography of Federalism

Courses Taught
Geography 105:  World Geography—Fall 2006 and Spring 2007 (Fall 2006 Syllabus coming soon)
Geography 313:  The United States—last taught Spring 2006 (Spring 2006 Syllabus)
Geography 491:  Senior Seminar—Fall 2006 (Fall 2006 Syllabus coming soon)
Geography 500:  Geographies of Memory (last taught Fall 2004) 
Geography 564:  Urban Historical Geography—Spring 2007 (Spring 2005 Syllabus)
Geography 602:  Research Design in Geography (taught Spring 2006 only)
Geography 700:  Interdisciplinary Theories of Space and Place (last taught Spring 2004)
Geography 774:  Seminar in Historical Geography (last taught Fall 2003) (Fall 2003 Syllabus) (Fall 2002 Syllabus) 

Professional Service to the Discipline
2003-.              Advisory Board, International Studies Review.
2002-.              Editorial Board, H-Histgeog.
1996-2002.     Coordinator, The Historical Geography Internet Discussion Group.
1996-2003.     Editorial Board, Geographical Review.
1995-2004.     Editorial Board, Historical Geography.
1994-1999.     Book Review Editor for the Americas,  Journal of Historical Geography.
1992-1995.     Editor, Historical Geography.
1992-1993.     Secretary/Treasurer, Historical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.
1991-1992.      Councilor, Historical Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.

Principal Publications
2004.  Mosher, Anne E.  Capital’s Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916.  Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press.  

1998.  Mosher, Anne E. and Monique M. Wheeler. "Riverboat Gaming as Urban Revitalization 'Lagniappe': The Case of Baton Rouge, Louisiana," in Meyer-Arendt, Klaus J. and Rudi Hartmann eds. Casino Gambling in America:  Origins, Patterns  and Impacts.  Elmsford, New York:  Cognizant Communication Corporation.

1995.  Mosher, Anne E., Barry Keim and Susan Franques.  "Downtown Dynamics," Geographical Review 85:506-526.
(this paper examines the evolution of land-use patterns along New Orleans’ Canal Street between the 1880s and 1990s.)

1995.  Mosher, Anne E.  "'Something Better than the Best':  Industrial Restructuring, George McMurtry and the Creation of the Model Industrial Town of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1883-1901," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85:84-107. 

1992.  Mosher, Anne E. and Deryck W. Holdsworth.  "The meaning of alley housing in industrial communities:  Examples from late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Pennsylvania."  Journal of Historical Geography 18: 174-189.

Updated May 21, 2006