Education

• Ph.D. Geography, 2003, University of California, Los Angeles.
• Dissertation Title: Coast Stories: Narratives and Identity in an Overlooked Los Angeles Public Space

Courses Taught

• Geography 150 (World Regional Geography)
• Geography 330 (California Geography)
• Geography 351 (Urban Geography)
• Geography 417 (California Geography and History) “normal” and PACE versions
• Geography 490 (Senior Project)
• Geography 650D (Metropolitan Los Angeles)
• Geography 650C (Urban Social Geography)
• Geography 696 (Directed Graduate Research)
• Liberal Studies 300 Gateway

Selected Publications and Presentations

Selected publications

(Forthcoming) "The Search for Authentic Practice Across the Disciplinary Divide" (with Greg Knotts, Lynette Henderson and John Swain), forthcoming in College Teaching.

(2008) “Recalcitrant Space: Modeling Variation in Humanistic Geography,” Journal of Cultural Geography 25 (2008): 161-180.

(2007) “The Beach versus ‘Blade Runner’: Recasting Los Angeles’ Relationship to Modernity,” Historical Geography 35 (2007):113- 136.

(2006) The Los Angeles Coast as a Public Place” (with J. Nicholas Entrikin), The Geographical Review 95 (2005): 578-93.

Conferences

(2007) “What is Los Angeles? Narrative and Place in Southern California” University of Missouri-St. Louis Center for the Humanities’ “What is a city?” conference

(2007) CSUN Faculty Retreat, 2007: “What the Best College Teachers Do: First-year CSUN Faculty and the Search for Authenticity” 

(2006)  Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Conference, 2006: “Recalcitrant Space”

(2006)  Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 2006: “Place, Stories, and English-Language Learners” (with Mary Miller) 

Research and Interests

Forthcoming ...