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
· Digital Humanities
SCHOLARSHIP
Journal Articles – Peer Reviewed
· 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. (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.
· D. Purcell and K. de Beurs (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)
· D. Purcell and B. Heitmeier (2012) “Late-Night Laughs at the Arab Spring.” Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers. Las Cruces, NM. October, 2012. (Poster)
· D. Purcell and K. Hines (2012) “Late-Night Comedy Coverage of the North African and Southwest Asian Revolutions” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV. February, 2012.
· D. Purcell (2011) “Social Networking Technologies and Teaching Human Geography”, National Council for Geographic Education meeting, Portland, OR.
· D. Purcell and K. Collier, (2010) “Kurdistan as a Stateless Nation on Facebook” Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers meeting, Birmingham, AL. November, 2010. (Poster)
· D. Purcell, (2009) “Stateless Places in Facebook: Representations of Aspirations” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
· D. Purcell (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.
· S. Cobb and D. Purcell (2006) “New tensions in the financial services industry: Do Credit Unions really want to be banks?” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.
· D. Purcell and A. Champion. (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 – Projected defense December 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))
· 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
· 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
· 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
· Social and Cultural Geography*
· Social Science Quarterly *
· Southeastern Geographer*
Miscellaneous
· Editorial Board, Turkish Journal of Diaspora Studies 2020-Present
· 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
· College Board, Fresh Eyes Reviewer for Advanced Placement Human Geography Exam, 2024-Present
· Educational Testing Service. Worked as a reader and progressed to Exam Leader, Advanced Placement Human Geography, 2006-2026
· College Board – Member of the Advanced Placement Human Geography Test Development Committee, 2015-2020
· Educational Testing Service – Item Writer 2010-2022, Exam Reviewer 2023-2024
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. Sarah Bednarz, Professor (retired), Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843.
· 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