• Professor of Geography, Frostburg State University, (Assistant Professor, 1986-1989, Associate Professor, 1989-1996) 1986-present.
• Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1980-1986.
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Kentucky, 1978-1980.
• Instructor of Geography, Northwestern University, 1977-1978.

• Chair of the Department of Geography, Frostburg State University (1993-1999) Also, Chair, Frostburg State University Department Chairs' Council, (1995-1997).
• Director, Office of Contracts and Grants, (1987-1990) one-half time. Also, member, University Fund Raising Council, Faculty Development Subcommittee, and Chair, IRB/IACUC.
• Acting Head, Department of Geography and Urban Planning, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Summer 1983.

DEPARTMENT AND MAJOR UNIVERSITY SERVICE

• Undergraduate Geography Program and Policy Committee, (1978-1980)

University Grants:

• Sabbatical Leave, Spring Semester 1994, "Planning in Small Towns".
• Grant Incentive Award, February 1993, "Canadian Small Towns".

• Faculty Research Award, October 1982, "Poverty in Metropolitan Indianapolis Revisited".
• Instructional Mini-Grant, November 1981, "Development of a Student Workbook for World Geography", with O. D. Abington.
• Faculty Research Award, November 1980, "Processes of Neighborhood Change: A Conceptual Approach".

• Undergraduate Teaching Improvement Mini-Grant, October 1978, "Social Indicators".

• J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, "Lecturing and Research Award for study in Finland during Fall 2000", February 2000.
• Maryland Department of the Environment, "Water Management Administration Mining Program Student Intern," April 1998, $5894.
• Maryland State Department of Education, "Career Connections: Development of Courses on the Geography of Tourism Planning", May 1997, $1,850, and extension, "Integration of New Tourism Courses into the University Curriculum," May 1998, $475.
• National Science Foundation, "Renovation of Gunter Hall for Environmental Science," January 1997, $950,000 (with Kenneth Stewart, Conrad Best, and others).
• Appalachian Regional Commission, "High Performance Computing Equipment for Industry and Academia, " September 1994 (Contract No. 94-155, $156,372) with Mohsen Chitsaz.
• Appalachian Regional Commission, "The Frostburg State University Computer Aided Design and Drafting/Global Positioning System Project," September 1993 (Contract No. 93-132, $53,792).
• U.S. Department of Education, Undergraduate International Studies Program, April 1989, "Curriculum and Faculty Development Project in International Studies" $40,000 (with John Bowman and MacGregor O'Brien).
• Government of Quebec, Professional Development Fund, May 1987, "Montreal's Suburbs: Population and Economic Trends".
• Government of Canada, 1986 Faculty Enrichment Grant, December 1985, "Development of a Course on Comparative Planning Strategies".
• State of Louisiana Board of Regents, Research and Development Fund, July 1981, "Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Cancer Mortality in Louisiana" (with D. C. Johnson and D. K. Ehrhardt).
• National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, December 1976, "The Effects of a Constrained Opportunity Set on Residential Choice and Satisfaction" (with D. R. Reynolds and R. H. Ericksen).

• "Review of Edmund P. Fowler, Building Cities That Work," The Professional Geographer, Vol. 45, No. 4, November 1993, pp. 482-483.
• Louisiana: A Geography with David C. Johnson and O. Douglas Abington, Lafayette: University of Southwestern Louisiana, 1989, revised second edition, 1993."Review of D. T. Herbert and R. J. Johnston, eds., Geography and the Urban Environment: Progress in Research and Applications," The Professional Geographer Vol. 38, No. 4, November 1986, p. 422.
• "Review of Everett M. Rodgers, The High Technology of Silicon Valley and Peter Hall and Ann Markusen, eds., Silicon Landscapes," Urban Geography, Vol. 7, No. 2, March-April 1986, pp. 180-182.
• "Cancer Mortality, Cartography and Public Policy," Papers and Proceeding of Applied Geography Conferences, Vol. 8, 1985, pp. 200-206.
• "Urbanization in India: Planning Implications," a chapter in Marion J. Rice, Geographical Perspectives on Development in India, (Athens, Georgia: Geography Curriculum Project, University of Georgia, 1984) pp. 205-210.
• "Review of David Clark, Urban Geography," The Professional Geographer, Vol. 36, No. 1, February 1984, p. 111.
• "Suburban Social Status and Non-residential Land Use," Geographical Perspectives, Spring 1983, No. 51, pp. 1-13.
• Student Workbook for World Geography, (with O. D. Abington), Department of Geography/Urban and Regional Planning, University of Southwestern Louisiana, June 1982.
• "Job Change as a Motivation for Intraurban Residential Mobility," Growth and Change, Vol. 12, No. 1, January 1981, pp. 42-49.
• "Neighborhood Sources of Residential Satisfaction," Ph.D. Thesis, University of Iowa, University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1978.
• "Major Findings of the Cedar Rapids Residential Choice and Satisfaction Study: Report to the Respondents, Institute of Urban and Regional Research, University of Iowa, Special Report, June 1978.
• "Three Types of Poverty in Metropolitan Indianapolis, "The Geographical Review, Vol. 64, No. 4, October 1974, pp. 535-566.
• ""The Inequality of Access to Public Services: The Case of Port Antonio, Jamaica," In Social Problems in a Small Jamaican Town, Occasional Publications of the Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Paper No. 6, April 1973, pp. 17-33.
• Factorial Ecologies of Urban Black Communities," (with Curtis C. Roseman and Charles M. Christian), Geography of the Ghetto: Perception, Problems, and Alternatives, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1972, pp. 239-255.
• "Public Opinion of Pollution Hazards in Northwest Indiana," (with Alice T. M. Rechlin and others), The Geographical Bulletin, Vol. 3, November 1971, pp. 30-41.  

FORMAL PAPER PRESENTATIONS

• "Growing Old in a Small Town," presented at the Biannual Conference of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, November 18, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
• "Active learning in Human Geography: Mixing Internet Resources & Cooperative Learning," presented at the Technology and Teaching Conference, November 6, 1999, Frostburg, Maryland.
• "Faculty Development from the Department Chair's Perspective," presented at University of Maryland System Department Chairs Workshop, October 25, 1996, College Park, Maryland.
• "Public Opinion of Public Schools: Variation Among Attendance Zones," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 12, 1996, Charlotte, North Carolina.
• "The Residential Ecology of Small Towns in Atlantic Canada", presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 16, 1995, Chicago, Illinois.
• "The Context for Residential Development in Small Towns," presented at the Biannual Meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, November 19, 1993, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• "Evaluating Departmental Participation in Interdisciplinary Programs: An International Studies Case" presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education, August 7, 1993, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
• "Residential Patterns in Smaller Cities," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 21, 1992, San Diego, California.
• "The Western Maryland Regional Geographic Information Systems Center at Frostburg State University," presented at the 1991 Local Government Exchange (University of Maryland Extension Service), May 10, 1991, Hagerstown, Maryland.
• "Small Town Planning Practice in the United States and Canada," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 20, 1990, Toronto, Ontario.
• "Suburban Diversity: Evidence of Geographical Diversity in Metropolitan Montreal," presented at the biannual meeting of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, November 18, 1989, San Francisco, California.
• "Geography and International Studies Programs," presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education, October 15, 1989, Hershey, Pennsylvania.
• "Suburban Diversity and Change in Metropolitan Montreal," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 9, 1988, Phoenix, Arizona.
• "Social Area Analysis and Factorial Ecology in Smaller Cities," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 25, 1987, Portland, Oregon.
• "Canadian Urban Planning Practice," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Conference on Canadian Studies, April 10, 1987, Alexandria, Virginia.
• "Neighbors, Neighborhoods, and Annexation," presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, March 21, 1986, San Antonio, Texas.
• "Cancer Mortality, Cartography, and Public Policy," presented at the Applied Geography Conference/Association of American Geographers Southwestern Division Meeting, October 18, 1985, Denton, Texas.
• "Statistical Analysis and Word Processing," presented at a panel on "Managing Technical Resources: The Computer as a Planning Tool" at the Louisiana Chapter, American Planning Association Conference, October 3, 1985, Lake Charles, Louisiana.
• "Small Town Ghettos: Diverse Patterns of Racial Segregation," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 24, 1985, Detroit, Michigan.
• "An Economic Profile of Louisiana's Metropolitan Areas," presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, March 22, 1985, Houston, Texas.
• "Racial Segregation in Small Towns," presented at the Association of American Geographers Southwestern Division Meeting, September 21, 1984, Lubbock, Texas.
• "Poverty in Metropolitan Indianapolis Revisited," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 24, 1984, Washington, D.C.
• "Spatial Trends in Louisiana Cancer Mortality Since 1960," presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, March 23, 1984, Fort Worth, Texas.
• "Problems Faced by Map Library Users," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Louisiana Library Association, March 14, 1984, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• "Teaching the Concepts of New Town Planning," presented at the Association of American Geographers Southwestern Division Meeting, October 7, 1983, Norman, Oklahoma.
• "Cultural Factors in Cancer Mortality: An Ecological Analysis of Louisiana Cancer Mortality," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 27, 1983, Denver, Colorado.
• "Cancer Mortality in Louisiana," presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, March 18, 1983, Houston, Texas.
• "Teaching About Development: A Case Study of India," presented at the USL Social Studies Teachers Conference, February 26, 1983, Lafayette, Louisiana.
• "Urbanization in India: Policy Implications," presented at the Association of American Geographers Southeastern Division Meeting, November 22, 1982.
• "Differential Urban Growth: A comparison of Louisiana's Metropolitan Areas," presented at the Association of American Geographers Southwestern Division Meeting, October 8, 1982, Hot Springs, Arkansas.
• "Implications of Multiple Platforms on Air Emission Levels in Offshore Petroleum Activity Areas," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 26, 1982, San Antonio, Texas.
• "Residential Mobility and Neighborhood Change," presented at the Association of American Geographers Southwestern Division Meeting, October 16, 1981, Austin, Texas.
• "City-County Consolidation: The Need for Locationally Specific Proposals," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 20, 1981, Los Angeles, California.
• "A Conceptual Approach to Neighborhood Change," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, March 27, 1981, Dallas, Texas.
• "Dimensions of Neighborhood Change," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 16, 1980, Louisville, Kentucky.
• "Neighborhood Concepts: Classroom and Field Instructional Approaches," presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Council for Geographic Education, November 2, 1979, Mexico City, Mexico.
• "Residential Dissatisfaction and Out-Migration in New Suburban Neighborhoods," presented at the Population Association of America Annual Meeting, April 27,1979, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• "Residential Stability and Satisfaction in Older Neighborhoods," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 24, 1979, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• "Residential Dissatisfaction in New Neighborhoods," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 10, 1978, New Orleans, Louisiana.
• "The Influence of Neighborhood Factors on Residential Satisfaction," presented at the Association of American Geographers West Lakes Division Meeting, October 15, 1977, Valparaiso, Indiana.
• "Suburban Social Status and Non-residential Land Use," presented at the Association of American Geographers West Lakes Division Meetings, October 29, 1976, Waterloo, Iowa.
• "The Poverty of Unrelated Individuals in Indianapolis," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 13, 1975, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
• "Patterns of Change in the Foreign Born Population of American Cities: 1870-1950" presented at the Association of American Geographers West Lakes Meeting, October 4, 1974, Muncie, Indiana.
• "Patterns in the Utilization of Public Services in Port Antonio, Jamaica," presented at the Association of American Geographers West Lakes Division Meeting, October 4, 1972, St. Louis, Missouri.
• "The Relationship of Expensive Residential Dwellings to Hilly Terrain," presented at the Fall Meeting of the Indiana Academy of Science, October 28, 1971, Richmond, Indiana.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Home Address:    234 Braddock Road
Frostburg, Maryland 21532
Home Phone: (301) 689-8084
Date of Birth: September 6, 1949
Place of Birth: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Citizenship: United States
Marital Status: Married, two daughters