Oklahoma State University

Faculty Member, Department of Geography

Visiting Assistant Professor

Oklahoma State University

About

I am a broadly trained geographer.    My research expertise includes cultural, historical, and environmental geography, cultural landscapes, national parks and protected areas, tourism, Historical GIS, and field methods with a regional focus on the western United States.  My scholarship is interdisciplinary, mixed method, and field work oriented.  I am keenly interested in understanding and interpreting how places change over time especially in terms of spatial dynamics and socially inscribed meanings. My research and teaching are mutually reinforcing, thereby connecting the classroom with active research projects and local, national, and international fieldsites. 

Current projects and publication activities revolve around a study of 100 years of Grand Canyon National Park iconography and visual representation found in popular media such as postcards, magazine photos, and movies.  I have also completed and active research in Yellowstone N.P. historical and cultural landscape evolution (Yellowstone Lake) and Yosemite N.P. (transportation systems as cultural and historical landscapes). 

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