Expertise

My current research delves into understanding peoples' emotional attachment to place (Place Attachment) as well as interrogating places that restore cognitive and emotional balance (Restorative Places).

His current research examines peoples' emotional attachment to place as well as restorative places.

Research Interests:

  • Sense of Community / Attachment to place
  • Settlement typology and changing morphology
  • Cultural and ethnic landscape change
  • Symbolism of the cultural landscape
  • Changes in rural-urban land use patterns
  • Diagnostic features of cultural and ethnic groups
Communities
North American Studies, International Studies, Geography
Degrees
PhD, Arizona State University, Geography, 1997
MA, Bowling Green State University, Geography, 1990
BA, University of Northern Colorado, Social Science, 1988