Karl Offen
Professor, Geography and the Environment Department
Senior Research Associate and Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean
Courses
- 2024 Spring
- GEO 103 Environment and Society
- GEO 300 Selected Topics - Latin American Historical Geo
- 2023 Fall
- GEO 300 Selected Topics - Maps, Power, History
- 2023 Spring
- GEO 610 Qualitative Methods in Geography
- GEO 300 Selected Topics - EnvHistory-LatinAmer&Caribbean
- 2022 Fall
- GEO 300 Selected Topics - Historical Political Ecology
Highest degree earned
Areas of Expertise
Selected Publications
- Books
- Journal Articles
- Offen, K. H., "Subsidio de la naturaleza: Las tortugas verdes en el gran caribe colonial." Mesoamerica, 2023.
- Offen, K. H., "The lifeworld of Elizabeth Symons: Family biography and Atlantic geographies in the eighteenth century." Journal of Historical Geography, 2023.
- Offen, K. H., "A Miskitu Critique of British Trade Practices." Ethnohistory, 2022.
- Offen, K. H., "English Designs on Central America: Geographic Knowledge and Imaginative Geographies in the Seventeenth Century." Early American Studies, 2020.
- Offen, K. H., "Subsidy from Nature: Green Sea Turtles in the Colonial Caribbean." Journal of Latin American Geography, 2020.
- Offen, K. H., "Mapping Amerindian captivity in colonial Mosquitia." Journal of Latin American Geography, 2015.
- Offen, K. H., "Historical Geography III: Climate Matters." Progress in Human Geography, 2014.
- Book Chapters
- Offen, K. H., "Environment, Space and Place: Cultural Geographies of Colonial Afro-Latin America." In Afro-Latin American Studies: An Introduction. Fuente, A. d., Andrews, G. R. (eds.) Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- Offen, K. H., Rundstrom, R., "Indigenous Peoples and Western Cartography." In Cartography in the Twentieth Century, vol. 6: History of Cartography. Monmonier, M. (ed.) University of Chicago Press, 2015.
- Offen, K. H., Dym, J., "Introduction." In Mapping Latin America: A Cartographic Reader. Dym, J., Offen, K. H. (eds.) University of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Offen, K. H., "Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia." In Blacks and Blackness in Central America: Between Race and Place. Gudmundson, L., Wolfe, J. (eds.) Duke University Press, 2010.
- Offen, K. H., "The Geographical Imagination, Resource Economies, and Nicaraguan Incorporation of the Mosquitia, 1838-1909." In Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental Histories in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Brannstrom, C. (ed.) Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2004.
- Journal Special Issue Editor
- "Mapping Latin American Geographies." Offen, K. H. (ed.) Journal of Latin American Geography, 2015.
- Online Libraries
- Offen, K. H., "Introduction to and annotation of M.W.'s 'The Mosqueto Indian and his Golden River' of 1699." Revista Temas Nicaragüense, 2013.
- Offen, K. H., "Isthmus Designs." In Cartographic Conversations, John Carter Brown Library. , 2012.
- Offen, K. H., "La cartografía colonial de Centroamérica y el topónimo ‘Mosquito’." Boletín de la AFEHC (Asociación para el Fomento de los Estudios Históricos en Centroamérica), 2011.
- Offen, K. H., "Mapping Land Politics on the Mosquito Shore." In I Found It at the JCB. , 2010.
Presentations and Events
37th Conference of Latin American Geographers, CLAG, "The Lifeworld of Elizabeth Symons: Family biography and Atlantic geographies in a multigenerational letter collection" (January 3, 2023 - January 6, 2023)
Offen, K. H., Lovejoy, P., Múltiples facetas de la Independencia: La emancipación de América Central en retrospective, Conmemoraciones por el bicentenario de la Independencia Centroamericana (1821-2021), "The Interesting Narrative of Intrigue and Deception on the Mosquito Shore, 1773-1781" (October 14, 2021 - October 16, 2021)
36th Conference of Latin American Geographers, "Subsidy from Nature: Green Sea Turtles in the Colonial Caribbean" (January 2, 2020 - January 4, 2020)
3rd World Congress of Environmental History, "‘Infinitt numbers’: Green Sea Turtles in the Colonial Caribbean" (July 22, 2019 - July 26, 2019)
"Robert Hodgson of the Mosquito Shore: Mapping a Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Imperial Life" (June, 2019)
Previous Teaching Appointments
Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College (2019-2021)
Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College (2017-2021)
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College (2015-2017)
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma (2006-2015)
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma (2000-2006)