Karen M. Morin

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

 

I work in the subfields of historical and social geography. At the broadest level my research critiques relationships between imperialism and discourses about gender, primarily but not exclusively within the context of 19th century North America. New works include Frontiers of Femininity: A New Historical Geography of the 19th century American West(Fall 2008, Syracuse University Press), and "Charles P. Daly's Gendered Geography, 1860-1890" (Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Dec. 2008), a preview of a larger manuscript on 19th century American geographical thought and practice.

At Bucknell I teach courses in cultural and social geography. I am drawn to social theory approaches to the study of space andplace, especially those to do with gender relations and cultural politics.

 

Courses

 

Recent Activities

I co-edit the journal Historical Geography, and welcome manuscripts. Please visit the journal's website www.historical-geography.net for submission and subscription information.

Along with Paula Closson Buck I am co-directing the Bucknell in London program in the Fall of 2009. Our theme is "Travel, Writing & Place." Application deadline is March 5, 2009. Refer to this link for more information www.bucknell.edu/x1889.xml.

I am current chair of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the AAG. For information on AAG competitions, special events, and other information: http://maps.cisat.jmu.edu/public/hgsg/index.html.

I co-directed the Bucknell in Northern Ireland program in Spring 2008. (Watch the Podsquad video.) Students above are enjoying the soft grass and spectacular views of the North Coast.

 

I served as a U.S. Fulbright Senior Specialistin Albania, University of Tirana in 2006. Shown here, students at the “American Corner” in Tirana.

 

Favorite Affiliation: 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 Pennsylvania state prisons, and 34 county jails covered in the PA Middle District. For more information www.eg.bucknell.edu/~mligare/LPP.html, and LPP Newsletter (Nov. 2008).

 

Recent 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


(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) "Charles Patrick Daly," Geographers: Biobibliographical Studies, Vol. 28

(2009) "Feminist Groups within Geography" and "Landscape Perception," in International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, eds. R. Kitchen and N. Thrift (Elsevier, Ltd.).

(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.

(2008) Review of American Commodities in an Age of Empire, by M. Domosh, in Cultural Geographies 15:4.

(2007)Women, Religion & Space: Global Perspectives on Gender andFaith, 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.

(2006) “Geography and Travel Writing,” in Encyclopedia of Human Geography, ed. B. Warf (Sage), 503-504.

(2006) Review of Nineteenth-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century, eds. H. Michie and R. Thomas, in Comparative Literature Studies 43: 177-179.

(2004) “Embodying Tropicalities: Commentary on Felix Driver’s ‘Imagining the Tropics: Views & Visions of the Tropical World’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 25: 23-25.

(2004) “Edward W. Said,” in Key Contemporary Thinkers on Space and Place, eds. P. Hubbard, R. Kitchin, and G. Valentine (Continuum), 237-244.

(2004) “Victorian Women Travelers” and “Suffrage Movement,” in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, ed. D. Wishart ( University of Nebraska Press),337-338, 338-339.

(2004) Review of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity, by C. Talpade Mohanty, in New Political Science 26: 1, 133-135.

 

For more information

Please see my Curriculum Vitae.