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Featured speaker on urban issues, environmental concerns, globalization, political geography and the history of carography for audiences at public venues in addition to academe.


LATEST BOOKS:

Cities and Suburbs
Cities and Suburbs


Cartographic Encounters
Cartographic Encounters

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LATEST ARTICLES:
Mega-Events: Urban Spectaculars and
Globalization
Representing Country in the Creative
Postcolonial City

A Typology of Urban Immigrant Neighborhoods

Flânerie and the Globalizing City

No Accident:
Traffic and Pedestrians in the Modern City

Urban Primacy: Reopening the Debate

Globalization, Cities and the Summer Olympics

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DoB: 10/19/51 - Born: Stirling, Scotland.

Education

1973-1976 University of Bristol.

Awarded Ph.D. in 1976 for dissertation, “Residential mobility in the private housing market”.

1969-1973 University of Aberdeen. Awarded M.A. in Geography in 1973.

Employment

John Rennie Short - Professor

2005- Professor of Public Policy, Department of Public Policy, UMBC

2002-2005 Chair and Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).

1990-2002 Professor of Geography, Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship, Syracuse University.

1978-1990 Lecturer in Geography, University of Reading, UK.

1976-1978 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bristol, UK.

Awards

2005- present HonoraryVisiting Professor, Department of Geography, Loughborough University, UK

2009 Helen and John S. Best Fellowship. American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.

2008 Suburban Gothic: The Crises in US Suburbs. The Edward Wilkommen Invited Lecture. American Geographical Society Library/University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. Milwaukee.

2006 Cartographic Encounters in The New World. The Philip Lee Phillips Society Invited Lecture. Library of Congress, Washington DC.

2002 The Leverhulme Visiting Professorship to UK,Loughborough University.

2001 Alexander O. Vietor Fellowship in Cartography, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

2001 Frank Hideo Kono Visiting Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

2000 Appleby-Mosher Faculty Research Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

1999 Dibner Library Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Smithsonian, Washinghton, DC.

1996 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Program. Newberry Library, Chicago.

1996 Andrew Mellon Resident Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

1996 Appleby-Mosher Faculty Research Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.

1995 Resident Research Fellowship, New York State Library, Albany.

1990 Erasmus Visiting Professor, Groningen University.

1985-1987 Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, Urban Research Unit Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.

1985 British Academy Visiting Fellowship at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

1976-1978 Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship.

1973-1976 Social Science Research Council Doctoral Award.