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John Mercer, 
Professor of Geography                          Dean of Graduate School

jmercer@maxwell.syr.edu

M. A., Glasgow University, 1964
M. A., McMaster University, 1967
Ph. D., McMaster University, 1971
                          

Academic
appointments
1990-present, Professor, Syracuse University
1989-1990, Professor, University of Victoria, British Columbia
1989, Professor, Syracuse University
1980-1989, Associate Professor, Syracuse University
1974-1980, Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
1973-1974, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of British Columbia
1970-1973, Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

Principal Publications
"The Canadian City in Continental Context" in Trudi Bunting and Pierre Filion (eds.) The Changing Canadian City (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1992: 45-68)

New Perspectives on Race and Housing in Britain (Glasgow: Centre for Housing Research, 1987) (Co-edited with Susan J. Smith)

The Myth of the North American City (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1986) (with M. A. Goldberg)

The City in Cultural Context (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1984) (Co- edited with J. A. Agnew and D. Sopher)

"Locational Conflicts and the Politics of Consumption," Economic Geography Vol. 56, 1980: 89-109

"Metropolitan Housing Quality and an Application of Causal Modelling," Geographical Analysis Vol. 7, 1975: 295-302.