Profile

I'm an urban geographer interested in the migration flows, spatial patterns, and shifting identities of immigrants and refugees in North America; race, ethnicity, and place in the North American context; urban social landscapes; and geographic education. My current research, funded by grants from the Canadian Embassy and the provincial government of Quebec, focuses on the migration experiences, spatial patterns and transnational identities of immigrants at the Canada-U.S. borderland.

I recently completed two book projects – a co-edited volume (with Francophone geographer Remy Tremblay), on the migration experiences of cross-border migrants submitted to McGill-Queens University Press and a new edition of The Geography of North America: Environment, Political Ecology, and Culture (Prentice-Hall, 2012).

I teach two courses each year including GEOG 208 (“Geography of the U.S. and Canada”) and an upper division/graduate level course on North American immigration. I’ll also be offering a Freshman Seminar next year for the UO First Year Programs Office and continuing to work closely with graduate student advisees in the departments of Geography, Landscape Architecture, Environmental Studies, English, and Education.

My ongoing commitment to the national reform movement in geographic education currently involves: (1) active participation in the NSF-funded Roadmap to Geographic Literacy Project; (2) selection as one of three geographers charged with developing the geography standards embedded in the Social Studies Core State Standards; (3) service as an AP Geography Content Consultant for the National Geographic Society; and (4) Content Editor for Geography for Life: The National Geography Standards, 2012.