Courses taught: Introduction to Geography Geography of the U.S. American Landscapes Conservation and Preservation Economic Geography Urban Geography Political Geography Shaping New York in the 21st Century U.S. Land Use Planning and Environmental Planning Ordinary Landscapes Senior Seminar

Research projects: Alternative development strategies for the Great Plains Regional adaptations to population loss Strategies for frontier communities

Professional organizations: American Geographical Society Association of American Geographers National Council for Geographic Education American Association for the Advancement of Science American Society for Environmental History

Selected publications: "The Buffalo Commons: Its Antecedents and Their Implications," Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy, 2006(6), with Frank Popper. "An Urbanist View of the Organization Man," in The Humane Metropolis, Rutherford Platt (ed.), 2006, Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 206-219, with Frank Popper. "The Onset of the Buffalo Commons," Journal of the West, 2006, 45(2): 29-34, with Frank Popper. "New Jersey's Jewish Agricultural Settlements: 'Opportunities for those of small means.'" Geographical Review, 2006, 96(1): 24-49. “Poor Christopher Colles: An Innovator’s Obstacles in Early America,” Journal of American Culture, 28(2), 2005, pp. 178-190. "The Great Plains and the Buffalo Commons,” WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, Donald Janelle, Barney Warf, and Katherine Hanson (eds.), London: Kluwer, 2004. Pp. 345-349, with Frank Popper. “Small Can Be Beautiful: Coming to Terms with Decline,” Planning, July 2002, pp. 20-23, with Frank Popper. "From Maps to Myth: The Census, Turner and the Idea of the Frontier,” Journal of American and Comparative Culture, 23(1) 2000, pp. 91-102, with Robert Lang and Frank Popper. “The Buffalo Commons: Metaphor as Method,” Geographical Review, 89(4), 1999, pp. 491-510, with Frank Popper. “Is There Still a Frontier? The 1890 U.S. Census and the Modern American West,” Journal of Rural Studies, 13(4), 1997, pp. 377-386, with Robert Lang and Frank Popper. "The Great Plains: From Dust to Dust," Planning, December 1987, with Frank Popper.