PUBLICATIONS
The Geographical Review Editorship
Editors of the Geographical Review
The American Geographical Society has named Craig E. Colten of Louisiana State University as editor for the Geographical Review. Dr. Colten will edit volumes 97-99, i.e., those for years
2007-2009. He is the Carl O. Sauer Professor of Geography at LSU. For the past six years he has co-edited Historical Geography. His most recent book, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature,
won the J. B. Jackson Prize for 2005. Three other members of the LSU faculty will serve on the editorial team: Dydia DeLyser and Andrew Sluyter as associate editors and Kent Mathewson as book review
editor. The new editor is accepting manuscripts now, at LSU’s Department of Geography & Anthropology, 227 Howe-Russell, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105 and at greditor@lsu.edu.
Outgoing editors, Douglas Johnson and Viola Haarmann will complete volumes 95 and 96 and correspondence pertaining to those should continue to go to them.
With the 2003 volume, Douglas Johnson and Viola Haarmann became co-editors of the Geographical Review. Dr. Johnson is a professor in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, where he has been since 1972, except for brief periods as a visiting
professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Al-Akhawayn University in Morocco. He is a member of the desertification permanent monitoring panel of the World Federation
of Scientists, serves on the editorial board of the Columbia Gazetteer of the World, and is a board member of the Middle East Specialty Group of the AAG. His current research
interests are concentrated in four areas: (1) land degradation and desertification: (2) arid land management; (3) pastoral nomadism and the cultural ecology of animal keeping; and (4)
the geography of North Africa and the Middle East. From 1979-1987 Dr. Haarmann served as research project coordinator, researcher, and editor at the Geography Department of the
University of Hamburg for the Sahelian zone component of a major research project on "Geomorphological Processes, Process Combinations, and Natural Catastrophes" funded by the Academy
of Sciences, Gottingen. This project involved her in several periods of field work in the Republic of Sudan, as well as the advising and supervision of graduate students engaged in
project research activities. Since 1987, she has been a research associate with the Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Program at Brown University and has been engaged in freelance
editorial work and the undergraduate study abroad component of Clark University's Leir Center in Luxembourg. Her current research interests are focused on the geography of food and
agriculture.
Past editor, Paul F. Starrs, completed seven volumes of the journal, including such notable special issues as those on "fieldwork", on "the geography of cyberspace", on "oceans connect" (with guest editors
Karen Wigen and Jessica Harland-Jacobs), on "Latin America", on "environmental history", and on "J. B. Jackson." Circulation during the Starrs tenure grew by more than 20%.
For more information about the AGS or the Geographical Review, please contact the Executive Director of the American Geographical Society, Mary Lynne Bird, 120 Wall Street, New York, New York 10005-3904 (tel: 212-422-5456, fax: 212-422-5480, email: AGS@amergeog.org)