Gareth E. John
Assistant Professor, at SCSU since 2005
Ph.D. 2003 University of Kentucky
M.S. 1997 The Pennsylvania State University
B.Sc.(Econ.) 1994 University of Wales, College Swansea
Stewart Hall 352
Phone: (320) 308-6143
gejohn@stcloudstate.edu
Interests: cultural geography; historical geography; nineteenth-century exploration and the interpretation of American western landscape; history of geographical thought and practice; geographic education; American popular culture; contemporary Europe
Advisor: Faculty Advisor, Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU) Geography Honor Society, St. Cloud State University Chapter.
Courses Taught (last time taught)
GEOG 111: Introduction to Global Geography (Fall 2005)
GEOG 253: Theory and Concepts in Geography (Spring 2006)
GEOG 270: Introduction to Cultural Geography (Spring 2006)
GEOG 432: Applied Geography Seminar (Spring 2006)
Graduate Student Advisees: (Thesis in Progress)
William Craft: The Spatial Correlation between Casinos and Impaired Driving Incidents in Minnesota, 1985-2005
Jay Forstner: An Interactive Historical GIS of Pre-Park Exploration on the Upper Yellowstone, 1869-1871
Selected Publications
2006. “Historical Geography’s Alternative Futures.” Editorial in Past Place: Newsletter of the Historical Geography Specialty Group, 14 (2): 2-3.
2005. “Post-Katrina: Historical-Spatial Quickening.” Editorial in Past Place: Newsletter of the Historical Geography Specialty Group, 14 (1): 2-3.
2004. “Benevolent Imperialism: George Catlin and the Practice of Jeffersonian Geography.” Journal of Historical Geography 30 (2): 597-617.
2003. “Yellowstone and the ‘National Park Idea’: Tracing the Contours of a Landscape Idea” Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Kentucky.
2003. “Conservatism, Landscape, and the South in Ann Rice O’Hanlon’s New Deal Mural.” Kentucky Places and Spaces 1 (1): 11-22.
2001. “Cultural Nationalism, Westward Expansion and the Production of Imperial Landscape: George Catlin’s Native American West.” Ecumene: A Journal of Cultural Geographies 8 (2): 175-203.
Grants
St. Cloud State University Faculty Research Grant 2006-2007 for “Yellowstone and the “National Park Idea”: Tracing the Contours of a Landscape Idea,” $4,856.
Minnesota Humanities Commission 2005-2006 Works-In-Progress Grant for “Picturing the Prairie: George Catlin on the Upper Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, 1835-1836,” $2,500.
