
Dr. Smith's core areas of geographic research are in cultural geography and landscape and population and health geographies.
| Education | Ph.D., Arizona State University, 1997 |
| Research Interests | Sense of Community / Attachment to place, settlement typology and changing morphology, cultural and ethnic landscape change, symbolism of the cultural landscape, changes in rural-urban land use patterns, diagnostic features of cultural and ethnic groups, culture regions, U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Mountainous West, Middle America |
| Courses Taught |
GEOG 100 World Regional Geography GEOG 200 Human Geography GEOG 620 Geography of Latin America GEOG 709 Geographic Field Research Techniques GEOG 720 Geography of Land Use GEOG 790 Seminar in Cultural Geography GEOG 870 Seminar: The Master Weavers of Cultural Geography |
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| Office | Seaton 164C |
| Telephone | (785) 532-3412 |
| Fax | (785) 532-7310 |
| jssmith7@kstate.edu | |
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| Personal Web Page | http://www.ksu.edu/geography/JSSmith |