DARREN PURCELL
Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability
University of Oklahoma
510 Sarkeys Energy Center
100 East Boyd
Norman, OK 73019-1007
Affiliate Faculty, Film and Media Studies
300 Wallace Old Science Hall
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK 73019
Phone: (W and C) 1-407-453-1831
Email: (W) dpurcell@ou.edu
Education
Ph.D. Florida State University. 2003. Geography. Dissertation Title: Cyber-Slovenia: State, Territoriality, and Place Marketing Online. Advisor: Dr. Barney L. Warf.
Ph.D. Student, Old Dominion University. 1993-1995, Graduate Programs in International Studies.
M.A. University of Kentucky. 1996. Geography. Thesis Title: Regional Political Cultures, Congress, and the Persian Gulf War Vote. Advisor: Dr. Stanley D. Brunn.
B.A. University of Kentucky. 1991. Geography (International Studies concentration.)
Research Interests
Political Geography
Communications Geography
Popular Geopolitics / Popular Culture in World Politics
Humor
Digital Humanities
SCHOLARSHIP
Journal Articles – Peer Reviewed
Purcell, D. “Weather, Natural Hazards and National Identity in American Late-Night Humor.” (2027) 15:(1). European Journal of Humour Research, April
Nsude, C., Burch, C., Johnson, V, and Purcell, D. (2025) “Opinion Page Media Depictions of Renewable Energy Geopolitics and Energy Security” Social Science Quarterly. Accepted Septermber 10th, 2025.
Purcell, D., Rogelj, B. (2025). “Constructing the U.S. in Slovenian news media.” GeoJournal 90, 17. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10708-024-11269-2
Moore, C. and Purcell, D. (2021) “The Imaginative Geographies of Emad Hajjaj’s Arab Spring Cartoons.” The Arab World Geographer. 24(3):182-204.
Purcell, D. and Moore, C. (2019) “Selling Southern Places: An Examination of Delta’s Sky Magazine City Profiles.” Southeastern Geographer, 59(3), 248-267. DOI:10.1353/sgo.2019.0022
Purcell, D. Heitmeier, B., and Van Whye, C. (2017) “Critical Geopolitics and the Framing of the Arab Spring Through Late-Night Humor.” Social Science Quarterly. 98(2): 513-531.
Anaz, N. and Purcell, D. (2010) “Geopolitics of Entertainment: An Audience Responds in the Case of Valley of the Wolves-Iraq.” Arab World Geographer, 13(1): 34-49.
Purcell, D., Brown, M.S.; and Gokmen, M. (2009) “Achmed the Dead Terrorist and Humor in Popular Geopolitics.” GeoJournal. 75(4): 373-385
Purcell, D. (2005) “The Military in the Noosphere: NCT Adoption and Website Development in the Slovenian Ministry of Defense” Information, Communication and Society. 8(2):194-216.
Purcell, D. and Cobb, S. (2004) “Geographies of Cooperative Finance: A Case Study of Florida Credit Unions” The Industrial Geographer. 2(1):49-71.
Purcell, D. (2003) “Terra Incognita: Mapping the Causes of Geopolitical Realities.” Political Geography. 22(1):43-47.
Purcell, D. and Kodras, J. (2001) “Information Technologies, Representational Spaces, and the Marginal State: Redrawing the Balkan Image of Slovenia.” Information, Communications and Society. 4(3): 1-29.
Warf, B. Vincent, P. and Purcell, D. (1999) "International Collaborative Learning on the World Wide Web." Journal of Geography. 98(3): 141-148.
Jackson, M.H. and D. Purcell. (1997) "Politics and Media Richness in World Wide Web Representations of the Former Yugoslavia. Geographical Review, 87(2):233-253. .
Purcell, D. (1999) "The Slovenian State on the Internet." Open Society Institute (Ljubljana, Slovenia) Mediawatch monograph series.
Book Proposals in preparation
Purcell, D and Somdahl, K. Laughing in the Face of Danger: American Late-Night Humor and Poplar Geopolitics
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Steinberg, P. and Purcell, D. (2010) “"Power and Space in Electronic Communications" in The International Studies Association Compendium. R. Denemark (ed.) Volume IX, pp. 5893-5906. London: Wiley-Blackwell.
Book Chapters
Purcell, D. (2014) “Internet” in P. Adams, J. Craine, and J. Dittmer (eds.) Ashgate Research Companion on Geographies of Media. London: Ashgate.
Longan, M. and Purcell, D (2011) “Engineering Community and Place: Facebook as Megaengineering.” In S. Brunn (ed.) Engineering Earth: the Impact of Megaengineering Projects. Chichester: Wiley & Son. pp. 85-102.
Purcell, D. and Champion, A. (2007) “E-government and Slovenia’s Multiple Transitions.” In E-Government in Europe: Rebooting the state. Paul Nixon, and Vassiliki Koutrakou, (eds.) London: Routledge. pp. 196-210.
Warf, B. and Purcell, D. (2001) “The Currency of Currency: Speed, Sovereignty, and Electronic Finance.” In Worlds of E-Commerce: Economic, Geographical and Social Dimensions. T. R. Leinbach and S.D. Brunn, (eds.) Chichester: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. pp. 223-240.
Brunn, S.D. and D. Purcell. (1996) "Ethnic 'Electronic Communities': New Immigrant Linkages in a Wired World." In Ethnicni fraternalizem v priseljenskih dezelah (Ethnic Fraternalism in Immigrant Countries.) Matjaz Klemincic, (ed.) Maribor: Univerza v Maribor. pp. 337-344.
Brunn, S.D., J.A. Jones, and D. Purcell. (1994) Ethnic Communities in the Evolving 'Electronic' State; Cyberplaces in Cyberspace." In Political Boundaries and Coexistence. W. Gallusser. (ed.) Berne: Peter Lang Publishers. pp. 415- 424.
Edited Collections
Editor, AP Human Geography Special Focus: Scale. (2007) The College Board.
Encyclopedia Entries
Purcell, D. (2010) “Communications Geography”, “Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)”, “Place Promotion,” and “Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS.)” Sage Encyclopedia of Human Geography. B. Warf, ed. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA
Purcell, D. (2006) “Geopolitics,” Sage Encyclopedia of Human Geography. B. Warf, ed. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks, CA. pp. 184-186.
Book Reviews
Saunders, R, and Strukov, V. (2018) Popular Geopolitics: Plotting an Evolving Interdiscipline 7(3) AAG Review of Books. 2019. 7 (3):166-168.
Wendel, Delia Duong Ba; and Aidoo, Fallon Samuels (2015) Spatializing Politics: Essays on Power and Place. Reviewed for Technology & Culture. Forthcoming, October 2017.
Mitchell, J.L; Sebold, K; Dowdle, A; Limbocker, S.; and Stewart, P.A. (2015) The Political Geography of Campaign Finance: Fundraising and Contribution Patterns in the Presidential Elections, 2004-2012. Reviewed for American Review of Politics. 2016. 35 (1): 111-114.
Burman, S. (2007) The State of the American Empire: How the USA Shapes the World. Reviewed for The Geographical Review. 2009. 99:3. pp. 446-448.
Enyedi, G. and Tozsa, I. (2004) The Region: Regional Development, Policy Administration and E-Government. Reviewed for Regional Studies. 2005. 39:6, p. 834.
Dodge, M. and Kitchin, R. (2001) Mapping Cyberspace. Reviewed for Progress in Human Geography. 2002. pp. 575-576.
Friedland, R. and Boden, D. eds. (1995) Nowhere: Space, Time and Modernity. Reviewed for Urban Geography.1997. 8:4. pp. 365-366
Professional Presentations, Posters and Panels (Since 2000)
Purcell, D. (2026) “Banal Nationalism, Late-Night Comedy and Jokes Invoking Natural Disasters” Popular Culture and World Politics, Glasgow, U.K. November 19, 2026
Purcell, D. and Somdahl, K. (2026) “Representing China through Late-Night Humor” Popular Culture Association, Atlanta, GA. April 9th, 2026.
Purcell, D. and Somdahl, K. (2026) “Humorous Representations and Geopolitical Codes of Mexico-U.S. Relations in Late-Night Comedy Jokes.” International Studies Association. Columbus, OH. March 23, 2026.
Purcell, D. (2025, panelist) “Geographies of Media and Popular Culture in the New Age of Anxiety.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Detroit, MI, March 2025
Purcell, D. and Somdahl, K. (2025) “The Framing of China in American Late-Night Humor and Popular Geopolitics.” International Studies Association. Chicago, IL, March 4, 2025.
Purcell, D. and Somdahl, K. (2022) “Late-Night Humor about Russian Aggression in Ukraine.” Southwest American Association of American Geographers.
Purcell, D. (2020) “American Late-Night Comedians and the Geopolitical Imagination of China”, Australasian Humor Studies Network, Brisbane, Australia. February, 2020
Purcell, D. and Moore, C. (2019) “Selling Southern Places: An Examination of Delta's Sky Magazine City Profiles.” Great Plains/Rocky Mountain Division of the American Association of Geographers, Lawrence, KS. October, 2019.
Purcell, D and Collins, L. (2019) “Best Practices for Teaching the AP Human Geography Test.” (Presenter) American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April, 2019
Purcell, D and Collins, L. (2019) “Tools to Use: What do your AP Human Geography lectures look like?” (Panelist) American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April, 2019
“Tracking Students from AP Human Geography to Geography Programs.” (2019) (Panelist) American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., April, 2019
Purcell, D. and Heller, N. (2017) “Newspaper Framing of Drought in the Southwest US, 2010-2014.” American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA. April, 2017
Hunt, A. and Purcell, D. (2016) “Understanding Separatism and Supranationalism: Processes in the Political Landscape.” National Council for Social Studies. Washington, D.C. December 3, 2016.
Purcell, D. (2016) “The Gerrymander: An Endangered or Evolving Species?” National Council for Geographic Education Webinar Series. April 13.
Zeigler, D., Benton-Short, L; Bosco, F. and Purcell, D. (2016). “A Cartographic Analysis of AP Human Geography”. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA. March, 2016 (Poster)
Purcell, D. (2014) “Viewing China through the Geopolitical Lens of Late-Night Humor. “Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers –Great Plains, Rocky Mountain Meeting. Albuquerque, NM. October, 2014.
Oklahoma Council of Social Studies (2014) “Russia, Crimea and Popular Geopolitics.” Oklahoma City, OK. October 2014.
Purcell, D. and de Beurs, K. (2013) “’It’s Hot in Here’: Twitter as Data source for Understanding Perceptions of Heat and Drought.” Social Media and Society 13, Halifax, NS. September, 2013. (Poster)
Purcell, D. and Heitmeier, B. (2012) “Late-Night Laughs at the Arab Spring.” Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers. Las Cruces, NM. October, 2012. (Poster)
Purcell, D. and Hines, K. (2012) “Late-Night Comedy Coverage of the North African and Southwest Asian Revolutions” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV. February, 2012.
Purcell, D. (2011) “Social Networking Technologies and Teaching Human Geography”, National Council for Geographic Education meeting, Portland, OR.
Purcell, D. and Collier, K. (2010) “Kurdistan as a Stateless Nation on Facebook” Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers meeting, Birmingham, AL. November, 2010. (Poster)
Purcell, D. (2009) “Stateless Places in Facebook: Representations of Aspirations” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Purcell, D. (2008) “The Maintenance and Reworking of Nation-State Boundaries Online” International Society for the Study of European Ideas. Helsinki, Finland.
D. Purcell and E. Duda (2007) “The Maintenance and Reworking of Nation-State Boundaries Online.” Association of Internet Researchers meeting, Vancouver, B.C.
D. Purcell (2006) “The Diffusion of E-governmentality in Europe.” Southwestern Association of American Geographers meeting, Norman, OK.
D. Purcell and B. Warf (2006) “Minority Banking Ownership in the US – Recent Trends.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Cobb, S. and Purcell, D. (2006) “New tensions in the financial services industry: Do Credit Unions really want to be banks?” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
Purcell, D. and Champion, A. (2005) “E-Government in Slovenia and Croatia – A Comparison of Realities.” 6th Annual CREST Conference. Norwich, England, the Centre for Research in European Studies. Conference title: “’Ctrl, Alt, Delete’: Rebooting the State via E-Government in Europe.”
Kerr, R. and Purcell, D. (2005) “Xenophobia in Normative Cyber-space: Mainstreaming the ‘Extreme-Right’ on the Internet.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Purcell, D. and Cattaruza, A. (2005) “Regional Identity in Cyberspace: Competing Visions of Sandzak and Raska.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver, CO.
Purcell, D. (2004) "The Military in the Noosphere: Cyberstrategies of the Slovenian Ministry of Defense.” National Council for Geographic Education, Kansas City, MO.
Purcell, D. (2004) “Slovenia’s E-Image.” Globalized Europe Conference. Koper, Slovenia.
Cobb, S. and Purcell, D. (2004) “Credit Unions on the Financial Landscape.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Purcell, D. (2004) “Planning for a Career in Academy: A Workshop for New Faculty.” Panelist. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.
Purcell, D. (2003) “Deterritorialized Geopolitics: Networks and Diasporas.” Panelist. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.
Purcell, D. (2002) "Constructing Cyber-Slovenia: Government Internet Sites and the State-Building Process" Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Annual Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA.
Purcell, D. and Popescu, G. (2002) “Out of Bound(arie)s: The Regional Impacts of the Hungarian Status Law.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, California.
Purcell, D. (2002) Student Response. Political Geography Plenary Session. Plenary Speaker: Saul Cohen. Association of American Geographers Meeting, Los Angeles, California.
Purcell, D. (2002) “The Hungarian Status Law: Economic Implications for East-Central Europe.” Southern Conference on Slavic Studies. Daytona Beach, Florida
Purcell, D. (2001) “A Decade of Indeterminacy: Where is Slovenia Today?” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, New York.
Prezelj, I. and Purcell, D. (2000) “Cyber-Identity and Transparency of Defense Ministries and Armed Forces: A Comparative Study of Websites in Slovenia, Slovakia, Romania, Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic.” European Research Group on Military and Society, Seventh Biennial Conference. Prague, Czech Republic.
Purcell, D. (2000) “Localism Resurrected? FCC Regulation and Low-Power FM Broadcasting.” Southeast Division Meetings, Association of American Geographers. Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Invited Talks
· Popular Geopolitics and the Geographical Imagination in American Late-Night Comedy. Oklahoma State University, April 2020
· Guest lecturer, “Using Text Visualization and Selling the South.” Department of Geography, University of Ljubljana, January 2020.
· Guest lecturer, “Humor, Popular Culture and Geopolitics”, University of Ljubljana. January 2020.
· Colloquium speaker, Department of Philosophy, History and Geography, Missouri Western State University. November 2016.
· Colloquium speaker, Department of Geology and Geography, Western Kentucky University, December 2011.
· Colloquium speaker, Department of Geography, University of North Texas, October 2009.
· Guest Lecturer, Departments of Sociology and Geography, University of Zadar, December 2005
· Guest Lecturer, Department of Sociology, University of Split, December 2005
· Colloquium Speaker, Ball State University, January 2003.
· Guest Lecturer for Department of Geography, University of Ljubljana. Fall, 1999.
· Guest Lecturer for Department of Defense Studies, University of Ljubljana, Fall 1999.
· “Ethnicity and Conflict, History and Geography: Bosnia and Yugoslavia.” For ‘Bringing the World to Sixth Grade’ Conference. Texas A&M University, Social Studies Center for Educator Development, and the Texas Education Agency. January 1999.
· “Selling Slovenia: Use of the Internet to Remake the Geopolitical and Economic Map.” Colloquium Speaker. Texas A&M University. January 1999.
· "Peace in Our Time? Bosnia 1996," Florida State University College Democrats, October 1996
GRADUATE TEACHING
Graduate Seminars
· Religion, Culture and Geopolitics
· Geographies of Money and Finance
· Geopolitics in the Information Age
· Popular Culture and Critical Geopolitics
· Geography of Cyberspace and the Information Economy
· Environmental and Popular Geopolitics
· Research and Writing
Doctoral Advisees
(Completion date or projected date provided if known, no date means currently serving)
· Victoria Johnson – Left program, August 2026 – Broadcast meteorologist coverage of severe storms and regulatory regimes.
· Lene LeRoux (co-chair) – May 2023 – Configurations of a Southern Place: A Postcolonial Southern Urban Inquiry into Place-Making in Norwood, Johannesburg.
· Arif Keceli – May 2012 - Effects of Rapid Urbanization on Livability in Turkish cities: a Case Study of Denizli.
· Necati Anaz – May 2012 - Mapping Geopolitical Imaginations: Turkish Audiences and Valley of the Wolves: Palestine.
· Naci Dilekli – August 2010 - Developing and Evaluating a Web-Based Emergency Management Spatial Decision Support System.
Master’s Advisees – Thesis Option/One-Article Thesis Option
· Marinna Stopa – Expected May 2027 – topic around weather hazard communication and geography
· Matthew Armor – August 2023 - Heritage walking: a popular geopolitics study of the AYA application and its role in nation-building and heritage as a motivational factor for walking.
· James Tichy – August 2022 - Bringing a CLT to the Bayou City: How Houston's political environment shapes community land trust mobilization
· Cayton Moore – May 2021 - Caricatures of cartography: geographic imaginaries in the political cartoons of Emad Hajjaj
· Kelly Jones – August, 2019 - Natural Disaster Crisis Communication by FEMA and Red Cross via Twitter During Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Lane, Matthew, and Michael.
· Kimberly Zerr –April, 2008 - Visit SD! The Role of the Internet in Promoting Small-Town South Dakota.
· Marcie Kuehl –May, 2007 - Hey, Aren't we Friends on Myspace? Linking Lesbians in Virtual and Material Landscapes.
Master’s Advisees – Non-Thesis Option
· Blake Taylor - May 2022
· Emily Eskew - December 2014
· Lukas Sandve - April 2008
Doctoral Committees – Geography and Environmental Sustainability
· Clair Burch (Discourse of energy securitization and the American wind energy industry, May 2023)
· Anesu Makina (Waste Picking and the informal economy, May 2020)
· Virginia Silvis (Media Representations of Environmental Disasters, May 2020)
· Dustin Howard (Technology Transfer and Geopolitics, did not complete)
· Jennifer Messick (Biogeography, April 2017)
· Angela Person (Architectural Geography and the Hirshhorn Museum, June 2016)
· Kim Klockow (Visualization and Communication of Weather Hazard Information, Summer 2013)
· Bodo Kubartz (Knowledge Transmission in Oil Industry, Fall 2009)
· Istvan Egresi (Foreign Direct Investment in Romania, April 2008)
Doctoral Committees – Other Departments
· Michele Wilk (University of Oklahoma, English, Ecorhetoric)
· Hannah Zinn (University of Oklahoma, History, Russian Studies)
· Petya Stefanoff (University of Oklahoma, College of Architecture)
· Bennie Ashton ((University of Oklahoma, Political Science, Fall 2023)
· John Rackey (University of Oklahoma, Political Science, May 2022)
· David Stroup (University of Oklahoma, Political Science, Urban Space and Nationalism in China, August 2017)
· Long Zhou (University of Oklahoma, Urban Growth Management Strategies and Ecosystem Services, Landscape Architecture, August 2016)
· Jamie Smith (University of Oklahoma, Political Science, Social Media and Politics, May 2015)
· Bercu, Degirmen (University of Oklahoma, Political Science – Nationalism in Russia, 2012-2014)
Masters Committees - Geography and Environmental Sustainability
· Victoria Johnson (Broadcast Coverage of Tornado Events, May 2020)
· Kyndra Hanson (Text Analysis of Environmental Perception Survey, May 2020)
· Matthew Huycke (Urban gentrification in Oklahoma City, May 2015)
· Danielle Girdner (Modeling City Planning, December 2014)
· Jennifer Messick (Biogeography, May 2012)
· Stephen Waldrop (Cultural Change in Coastal Communities, May 2011)
· Melissa Brown (Cultural Geography and GIS, August 2009)
· Nicole Simons (Hazards and Remote Sensing, December 2008)
· David Morris (Historical GIS and Education, May 2008)
· Adrienne Proffer (Rural Town Development and Place Marketing, August 2007)
Masters Committees – Other Departments and Universities
· Haggouni, Abubaker, Al Akhawayn University, External Reviewer - Digital Yuan vs. Dollar: China's CBDC and the Geopolitical Challenge to U.S. Financial Hegemony (September 2025)
· English, Shannon, International and Area Studies – Civil Society in the Putin Presidency (May 2011)
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING
Undergraduate
· World Regional Geography
· Human Geography
· Principles of Economic Geography
· Geography of Russia and Southern Eurasia
· Geography of Europe
· Geography of Crime
· Political Geography (regular and Honors sections)
· Research Methods and Professional Development
· Introduction to Economic Geography
· Diplomacy Lab (team-taught)
· Media, Mapping and Power (Headington College course, undergraduate, team-taught)
· Lost in Translation (Undergraduate Community Outreach course, team-taught)
Mixed Undergraduate/Graduate Courses
· Adventures in Digital Humanities, OU Presidential Dream Course
SERVICE
Professional Service (academic organizations)
· Member, American Association of Geographers Student Awards and Scholarships Committee (2023-2026)
· Member, American Meteorological Society Future of Meetings Task Force (2022-2023)
· Member, American Association of Geographers, Finance Committee (2019-2022)
· Reviewer, Southeast Division, AAG (SEDAAG) Student Research Grant Proposals (Spring 2023)
· Judge, American Association of Geographers, Geography Bowl
· Judge, Southwest Division, AAG (SWAAG) student competitions, moderator for Geography Bowl (2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2023)
· Co-organizer, Southwestern Association of American Geographers (SWAAG) conference, October 2021, Oklahoma City.
· Regional Councilor to AAG Council, representing the Southwestern Association of American Geographers (2015-2018)
· Board Member, Political Geography Specialty Group (2012-2014)
· Member, Political Geography Specialty Group Student Awards Committee (2011-2014)
· Chair, Southwestern Association of American Geographers (2011-2012)
· Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education, Board of Directors (2013-2016)
· Secretary, Southwestern Association of American Geographers (2009-2011)
· Member, National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE) Distinguished Teacher Awards committee (2011-2014)
· Treasurer, Southwestern Association of American Geographers (2007-2009)
· Secretary-Treasurer, Communications Geography Specialty Group (2006-2009)
· Member of the Nominating Committee, Political Geography Specialty Group (2006-2009)
· Chair, AAG European Specialty Group (2003-2005)
· Board Member, AAG Russian, Central Eurasia, and East European Specialty Group (2003-2005, 2007-2009 (Subcommittee on Student Awards 2005-2009))
· Conference co-organizer – 2003 Political Geography Specialty Group Preconference
Conference Service Activity
· Session Organizer – AP Human Geography Panel, AAG Meetings 2017
· Session Discussant – AAG Meetings, 2007
· Session Organizer – Teaching Geography of Europe, AAG Meetings, 2004
· Session Co-organizer - Four sessions on Place Promotion, AAG Meetings, 2000
· Session Chair – Europe and the Balkans, Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference, 2000
· Session Discussant, 2002 AAG, Capital Hypermobility, Offshore Services, and the
· Geographies of Finance and Regulation III
· Paper Discussant, 1998 SEDAAG, 2000 Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-Conference, 2000 SEDAAG, 2001, SEDAAG, 2003 SEDAAG
University of Oklahoma
Departmental (Geography and Env. Sustainability (DGES), Film and Media Studies (FMS))
Director of Undergraudate Programs (2026-2028·
Awards Committee Chair, DGES (2022-2024)
Chair, Search Committee (2024)
Search committee member, DGES Geospatial Technologies search (2022-2023)
Chair, DGES Community Resilience Search Committee (2021-2022)
Committee A member, DGES (Spring 2015, 2017-2021)
Committee A member, FMS (2013-2015, Spring 2017, Spring 2020)
Search Committee member, FMS Director Search (2014-2015)
Co-Chair, DGES Environmental Economics Search Committee (2013-2014)
Member, DGES Student Awards Committee (2005-2021)
Member, DGES Graduate Committee Member (2006-2008)
Chair, DGES Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (2005-2010, 2017-2022)
Undergraduate Faculty Advisor, DGES (2005-2016, Fall 2021)
College (Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences, Arts and Sciences, International Studies)
· Outside member, Faculty Search Committee, College of International Studies (2024)
· Dean’s Evaluation Committee (2021-2022, 2026)
· Outside member, College of Arts and Science Dean Search (2013-2014)
· College Academic Program Committee (CAPC) (2005- 2017)
· College of Geosciences Transition Committee (2005)
University
· Presidents Advisory Committee - Faculty Accountability (2026)
Faculty Appeals Board (2022-2026)
Faculty Senate Executive Committee (elected as senator as at-large candidate, 2023-2025)
Chair, Campus Tenure Committee (2024-2025)
Member, Campus Tenure Committee Member (2022-2025)
Chair, OU Faculty Senate ad hoc Committee on Open Access Policy (2022-2023)
Faculty Fellow, Headington College (2016-2021)
Faculty-in-Residence, Cross Community (2018-2020)
University Libraries Scholarly Communication Task Force (2020-2022)
Arts and Humanities Forum, Faculty Advisory Committee (2015-2018, 2019-2023)
Co-organizer of OU Digital Humanities Day #5 (Virtual Event 2020)
Student Conduct Hearing Panelist (2016-2019, approximately 10 hearings during the period)
Academic Programs Council (2016-2019)
Provost’s Advisory Committee on Classroom Renovation (2010 – 2013)
Chair, OU Teaching Scholars Initiative (2009- 2010)
Teaching Scholars Initiative – Steering Committee (2005- 2012)
Presidential Mentoring Program for Freshmen (2005- 2007, 2011)
Community Service
· Interviewer, Rotary Exchange Program Outbound Student (Fall 2021)
· Chair of OU Federal Credit Union Board of Directors (2016-2018)
· Vice-Chair of OU Federal Credit Union Board of Directors (2014-2016)
· Board Member of the OU Federal Credit Union (2005-2006, 2011-2018. Posts included Assistant Treasurer and Secretary)
· Secretary, Supervisory Committee] OU Federal Credit Union (2006-2009)
· Volunteer Basketball Coach, Norman YMCA (2006)
Manuscript Reviews (* denotes multiple reviews)
· Aether: The Journal of Media Geography
· African Studies Review
· Applied Geography
· Area
· European Journal of Humor Research *
· Gender, Space and Society
· The Geography Teacher
· GeoJournal *
· Geohumanities*
· Geopolitics *
· Global Society
· The Geography Teacher
· Growth and Change
· Humanities and Social Science Communications
Information, Communication and Society *
· Journal of Geography *
· Journal of Geography in Higher Education *
· Journal of Latin American Geography
· Nationalities Papers*
· New Media and Society
· Political Geography *
· The Professional Geographer
· Scientific Data
Social and Cultural Geography*
· Social Science Quarterly *
· Southeastern Geographer*
Miscellaneous
· Editorial Board, Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies 2020-2026
· Editorial Board, Social Science Quarterly 2013-Present
· Session Reviewer, National Council of Social Studies, 2016
· Session Reviewer, International Communications Association, 2008
· Session Reviewer, Association of Internet Researchers, 2007, 2009
· Exam Leader, AP Human Geography Exam, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2026
· Question Leader, AP Human Geography Exam, 2018-2020, 2024, 2025
· Table Leader or Lead Table Leader, AP Human Geography Exam, 2008-2017
· Reader, AP Human Geography Exam, 2006-2007
· Judge or Moderator for Oklahoma Geography Bee, 2007-2014
· Book Proposal Review for Rowman and Littlefield, 2014
· Web Page Administrator, (AAG) Political Geography Specialty Group, AAG. 1996 - 2003
Grants, Awards and Fellowships
Awards
· 2024 – College/University Professor of the Year, Oklahoma Council for Social Studies.
· 2016 - Most Inspiring Professor - University of Oklahoma Student-Athlete Academic Council.
· 2013 – (With K. de Beurs) Outstanding Poster – Social Media and Society Conference.
· 2011 – National Council for Geography Education, Higher Education Distinguished
· Teaching Achievement Award
· 2010 – College of Atmospheric and Geographic Sciences Teaching Excellence Award (co-winner).
· 2009 – Provost’s Outstanding Academic Advising Award.
· 2006 –Most Inspiring Professor - University of Oklahoma Student-Athlete Academic Council.
External Funds or Competitive Programs
· 2002-2003 Proctor & Gamble HBCU Curriculum Development Grant. $50,000 to Florida A&M School of Business and Industry. Team Leader with Suarez, T, and Shabazz, D. Course: Dynamics of Global Information Management.
· 2000-2001 Florida State University Dissertation Year Fellowship. $10,000.
· 1999 Florida State University Dissertation Enhancement Grant
· 1998 Florida State University Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award
· 1994 -1995 Fulbright Student Fellowship to Hungary
Internal Funds
· 2016, Summer. OU Center for Teaching Excellence Course Enrichment Grant. Total - $3000 for student support.
· 2005, June. Proposal for Campus Advising – 2 Grants awarded in support of Departmental advising and recruiting efforts. Total - $1200.
Employment History
· 2013 – Present - Associate Professor with Tenure, Department of Geography and Env. Sustainability, University of Oklahoma
· 2005 – 2013 - Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Adviser, Department of Geography and Env. Sustainability, University of Oklahoma
· 2004 -2005 - Program Manager – Office of Grants Administration, Office of Workforce
· Education, Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education Florida Department of Education.
· 2004 - Adjunct Instructor, Dept. of Geography, Florida State University
· 2001-2003 - Visiting Assistant Professor, School of Business and Industry, Florida A&M University
· 1995-2000 - Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, Florida State University
· 2000 - Independent Contractor – Visit Florida
· 2000 - Independent Consultant – Cerebellum, Inc.
· 1996-1997 - Teaching Associate, FSU Program in Instructional Excellence (PIE)
· 1993-1994 - Research Assistant, Graduate Programs in International Studies, Old Dominion University
· 1993 - Research Assistant, Kentucky Transportation Center
· 1992 - Research Assistant, Transportation Research Board, Washington, D.C.
· 1990-1991 - Asst. Hall Director, University of Kentucky, Office of Residence Life (academic year)
· 1987-1990 - Resident Advisor, University of Kentucky Office of Residence Life (academic year)
· 1987-1990 - Engineer’s Aide, Hydrology and Hydraulic Section, Louisville District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Summer employment)
Consulting Work
· 2024-Present, College Board, Fresh Eyes Reviewer for Advanced Placement Human Geography Exam
· 2006-2026, Educational Testing Service. Worked as a reader and progressed to Exam Leader, Advanced Placement Human Geography
· 2015-2020, College Board – Member of the Advanced Placement Human Geography Test Development Committee
· 2010-2022, 2023-2024, Item Writer and Exam Reviewer - Educational Testing Service,
References
· Dr. Shannon Hudzinski, President and CEO, OU Federal Credit Union, Norman, OK. 73069
· Dr. Keith Gaddie, Professor, Political Science, Hoffman Chair of the American Ideal and Professor, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX, 76129.
· Dr. Paul Adams, Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Texas at Austin. Austin, TX. 78712
· Dr. Barney Warf, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7316