Karen M. Morin

Presidential Professor and Department Chair
Department of Geography
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
570-577-1793

I work in the subfields of historical and social geography. My recent research focuses on the history of geographical thought and practice in 19th century America, see Civic Discipline: Geography in America, 1860-1890 (Ashgate 2011). At Bucknell I teach courses in cultural and social geography. I am drawn to social theory approaches to the study of space and place, especially those to do with gender relations and cultural politics.


Courses I regularly teach

Gender, Place, and Culture (Geography 123)
Cultural Geography (Geography 220)
Introduction to American Studies (Geography 229/ University 229)
Gender and Geography (Geography 323)
Travel Writing and Place (CAPS 411)


Recent Activities

I co-directed the Bucknell in London program in Fall 2009, “Travel, Writing, & Place.” Featured reading: a lot of Virginia Woolf.

 

Students shown here with Woolf bust at Tavistock Square.

I co-directed the Bucknell in Northern Ireland program in Spring 2008. (Watch the Podsquad video.)

 

Students here are enjoying the soft grass and spectacular views of the North Coast.

I served as a U.S. Fulbright Senior Specialist in Albania, University of Tirana in 2006.

 

Shown here, students at the “American Corner” in Tirana.


Favorite Affiliations

The journal Historical Geography. Please visit the journal's website www.historical-geography.net for submission and subscription information.

The Lewisburg Prison Project, an organization dedicated to protecting the civil, constitutional, and human rights of those incarcerated in the 8 federal corrections facilities, 11 state prisons, and 34 county jails covered in the Pennsylvania Middle District. For more information http://lewisburgprisonproject.org/.


Recent (Selected) Works

Frontiers of Femininity (2009) Women, Religion & Space (2007) Key Concepts in Geography Key Contemporary Thinkers on Space and Place Western Places, American Myths Postcolonial Geographies


(2010) Author Response, Review Essay Forum on Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the Nineteenth-Century American West, in Gender, Place & Culture 17 (3): 401-415.

(2010) “Unpopular Archives,” The Professional Geographer 62 (4): 534-543.

(2010 forthcoming) “Edward W. Said,” in Key Contemporary Thinkers on Space and Place, 2nd edition, eds. P. Hubbard, R. Kitchin, and G. Valentine (Sage), 337-344.

(2010, in press) with T. Rothenberg, "Our Theories, Ourselves: Hierarchies of Place and Status in U.S. Academia." in Places Postcolonism Forgot, ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 9 (3).

(2009) "Charles Patrick Daly," Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, eds. H. Lorimer and C. Withers, Vol. 28 (Continuum), 105-117.

(2009) “Landscape: Representing and Interpreting the World,” in Key Concepts in Geography, eds. N. Clifford, S. Holloway, S. Rice, and G. Valentine, 2nd edition (Sage), 286-299.

(2009) "Feminist Groups within Geography," in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (Elsevier, Ltd.)., Vol 4. 64-70.

(2009) "Landscape Perception," in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (Elsevier, Ltd.)., Vol. 6, 140-145.

(2008) Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the 19th century American West (Syracuse University Press).

(2008) “Charles P. Daly’s Gendered Geography, 1860-1890,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98: 897-919.

(2007) Women, Religion & Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith, co-edited with Jeanne Kay Guelke (Syracuse University Press)

(2007) Review Essay Forum (with K. Till) on An Alliance of Women: Immigration and the Politics of Race, by H. Merrill, in Gender, Place and Culture 14: 745-763.


For more information

Please see my Curriculum Vitae.