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David J. Robinson,
Dellplain Professor of Latin American Geography
drobins@maxwell.syr.edu
 

B.A. Geography, University College London
Ph.D. Geography, University College London

Academic appointments
1999, Faculty Associate, Faculty Computing and Media Services
 
1987-1999, Director, Latin American Studies Program (Graduate)
1995-1997, Director, Latino-Latin American Studies Program (Undergraduate)
1983 to present, Dellplain Professor of Latin American Geography, Syracuse University
1973-1983, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
1964-1973, Lecturer in Latin American Geography, University College London

Visiting appointments
University of Cambridge,1969-70
University of Liverpool, 1968
Imperial College London, 1972
Geographical Advisor to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1965-67
Director, Syracuse University Technical Assistance Program to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Government of Peru, "Integrated Regional Development Project", 1981-1984

Editorial positions
Editor, Journal of Latin American Geography, 2004-
Co-Editor, Journal of Historical Geography, 1999-2006
Editor, Dellplain Latin American Studies, 1979-1995

Editorial Board member
Geocalli (Guadalajara) 2003-
Historia Crítica (Bogotá) 2005-
Latin American Research Review, 2003-
PlacesOnline 2002-2005
Colonial Latin American Review, 1994-1999
Meridiano: Revista de Geografía (Buenos Aires) 1995-
Pangea (Guadalajara), 1998 -
Edificar (Mérida, Venezuela), 1998-2006
Región (Cali, Colombia), 1999-
Latin American Population History, 1987-2006

Awards and Honors
2002 Outstanding Service Award, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Association of American Geographers
Appointed U. S. Representative to the Geography Commission, Panamerican Institute of Geography and History, 2000William Wasserstrom Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Syracuse University, 1999
Fulbright-Hays Scholar (Peru), 1995-1996
Eminent Latin Americanist Career Award
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Association of American Geographers, 1992

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1991-92
Fulbright-Hays Scholar (American Republics: Venezuela), 1990-91
National Geographic Society Research Grant (Colca Valley, Peru), 1989.
American Council of Learned Societies Grant (Peru), 1988.
Fulbright-Hays Distinguished Scholar and Lecturer (Brazil), 1987-88
William Waldorf Astor Foundation Research Award, 1963-64

Principal publications
Collaguas IV Cabanaconde: Economía, sociedad y población, 1596-1645 (in press, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima)

Collaguas III Yanque Collaguas: Sociedad, economía y población, 1604-1617 (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, 2006)

Collaguas II Lari Collaguas: Economía, sociedad y población, 1604-1605 (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima, 2003)

El correo colonial de Nueva Granada: Informe de don Antonio Pando (forthcoming, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá)

A son de caja y voz de pregonero: Bandos de Buen Gobierno de la ciudad de Mérida, Venezuela, 1776-1810. (with Edda Samudio) (forthcoming Abu-Yala: Quito)

Co-Editor Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997).

Editor Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994).

Editor Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993).

Mil leguas por América: de Lima a Caracas, 1740-1741. Diario de don Miguel de Santisteban. (Santafé de Bogotá: Banco de la República, 1991).

Editor Migration in Colonial Spanish America. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Relación de la Provincia de Antioquia por Francisco Silvestre Sánchez. (Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Medellín, Colombia, 1988).

Catálogo del Archivo del Registro Público de la Propiedad de Guadalajara: Libros de Hipotecas, 1566-1820. (Gobierno de Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1986) (with Linda Greenow).

Studies in Spanish American Population History. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1981).

Research Inventory of the Mexican Collection of Colonial Parish Registers. (Salt Lake: University of Utah Press, 1980).

Editor Studying Latin America: Essays in Honor of Preston E. James. (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1980).

Editor Social Fabric and Spatial Structure in Colonial Latin America (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1979).