Current ResearchEthno-Biogeomorphology: exploring the → Spatiality of biological soil crusts (article in progress) → Biogeomorphology of desert fires → Rapid ecological assessment of the Upper Sonoran Lifestyle [~500k pdf] → Micrometeorology of Biological Soil Crusts [~1.0 MB pdf]
Geography Education: Geography at all educational and governmental levels. → Using field studies to enhance learning (articles in progress) → Concept maps as tools for deep learning in environmental and earth sciences (article under review) → Online geography graduate programs → Critical pedagogy in geography [pdf] → Promoting geography in the K-12 classroom and curricula |
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Research Interests |
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Perhaps due to its inherent diversity, Geography has often been underappreciated and overlooked as an academic, scientific (physical and human), and humanistic discipline. This may stem from the academe paradigm of "specialization" that has, for many years, produced sub-field specialties ("breeds" of Geography?) I eschew this disciplinary fracturing, and focus instead on Geography's ability to bridge these so-called "specialties". |
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Casey D. Allen |
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Geographer, PhD |
Current Research (cont.)Humanistic Physical Geography: bridging the human & physical geography divide. → Experiencing Geography through Travel and Field Studies → Remapping Environments using Historical Repeat Photography [tourism: lg; md & agricultural: lg; md] → Landscape as process: an actor-network view of physical geography → RASI as a rock art management method [700k pdf]
Other Research Interests
→ Aesthetics/Sense of Place → Environmental Perception → Europe and the Aegean → Field Methods and Techniques → Geographic Thought & Epistemology → Latin America & the Caribbean → Medieval & Renaissance Cartography → Mythology, Religion, & Belief Systems → Popular and New Media → Rock Art Management → Travel & Tourism and Travel Writing |
