e-mail: i-shou.wang@csun.edu

Education

• PhD, University of Minnesota, 1971
• MA, University of Minnesota, 1966
• BA, National Taiwan University, 1961

Classes Taught

• 101 Physical Environment (Two classes in Fall and Spring)

Professional Experience

• 1979 to Present - Professor, CSUN
• 1984 Summer - Visiting Professor, Shaanxi Teachers University, Xi'an, PRC
• 1982-1983 - Director, the China Institute, CSUN
• 1981 Summer - Visiting Professor, Shaanxi Teachers University, Xi'an, PRC
• 1976 Spring - Visiting Associate Professor, University of Hawaii at Manoa
• 1973 Summer - Visiting Associate Professor, University of Idaho
• 1973-1979 - Associate Professor, CSUN
• 1968-1972 - Assistant Professor, CSUN

Administrative Experience

• 1994-2001 - Chair, Department of Geography, CSUN
• 1991-1994 - Associate Vice President for Academic Planning & Resources, CSUN
• 1987-1991 - Chair, Department of Geography, CSUN
• 1988-1989 - Coordinator, Asian Studies Program, CSUN
• 1982-1983 - Director, the China Institute, CSUN

Research and Teaching Interest

• Geography of China
• Urban and Population Geography
• Cartography

Publications and Presentations

1990 Population Maps of Shaanxi Province, Peoples Republic of China

"Legal Landscapes: the Artistry of the Natchez Surveyor 1798-1915", at the Third Biennial Historic Natchez Conference, Natchez, Mississippi, Feb. 1998 (co-author with Robert Provin, and Ron Davis).

"Index of Surveyor Maps in Adams County Court Records, Natchez, Mississippi, 1774-1930", at the Third Biennial Historic Natchez Conference, Natchez, Mississippi, Feb. 1998 (co-author with Robert Provin, and Ron Davis).

"The Application of Geographic Information Systems and the Use of Internet in Geographic Research and Teaching: The Creation of the Population Atlas of Shaanxi Province, China", at the Second Sino-American Symposium on Human Geography, Xi'an, China, June 1997 (co-author with Robert Provin).

"Mapping the Historic Natchez District in its Regional Context Based on the United States Census of 1860," Maps & Graphic Exhibit at the Second Biennial Historic Natchez Conference, January 30 - February 3, 1996 in Natchez, Mississippi (Co-author)

"Urban Growth in Northeastern China, 1940-1982," in K. Tan et. al (eds.), Urban Development in China and South-East Asia, (Germany: Bremen, 1993), pp.81-96.

"The Peopling of America," at the Sino-American Symposium on Understanding America, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, June 1991.

"Urban Growth in Northeastern China, 1940-1982," at the International Geographic Congress, Beijing, People's Republic of China, Aug. 1990.

"Labor Migration between North and Northeast China,"(in Chinese) in Nienhai Shih, Collections of Essays on Chinese Historical Geography, No. 3, 1989, pp. 39-48.

"Pre-1949 Chinese Labor Migration between North China and Northeast China," at the International Symposium on Historical Geography, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, August 1987.

"Historical Geography in North America, Status and Trend," at the International Symposium on Historical Geography, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, August 1987.

"The Present Education in Geography in Institutions of Higher Learning in the United States," (in Chinese), Human Geography Abroad, Vol. 1 (1986), pp. 42-52.

"Social and Behavioral Geography, Status and Trend," at the US-China Symposium in Human Geography, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, June 1985.

"Geographic Education in the United States," at the US-China Symposium in Human Geography, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, June 1985.

Other Professional Activities

• Vice Chair, China Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers, 1998-99.
• Co-organizer and participant, the Second Sino-American Symposium on Human Geography, Xi'an, China, June 1997.
• Advisor to the Editorial Committee of Human Geography (Human Geography Committee, Geographical Society of China) since 1985.
• Member of the Editorial Committee, The Journal of Chinese Geography, Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Science, & Geographical Society of China, since 1990.
• Co-organizer and participant, Sino-American Symposium on Understanding America, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, June 1991.
• Co-organizer, China Conference II: China in Transition, at CSUN, October 1984.
• Co-organizer and participant, US-China Symposium on Human Geography, in Xi'an, People's Republic of China, June 1985.