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Source: Deborah Che, 785-532-3408, dche@k-state.edu

Thursday, Sept. 18, 2008

GEOGRAPHER, TOURISM EXPERT DALLEN J. TIMOTHY TO LECTURE AT K-STATE

MANHATTAN -- An expert on tourism and other aspects of human geography will be an ADVANCE Distinguished Lecturer at Kansas State University.

Dallen J. Timothy, geographer and professor of community resources and development at Arizona State University, will present "Tourism and Political Boundaries: Stagnation and Change in a Transforming World" at 3:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 26, in the Big 12 Room at the K-State Student Union.

The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by K-State's ADVANCE Program, a National Science Foundation-supported effort at the university to attract, retain, support and advance women in the disciplines of science, engineering and mathematics; the K-State department of geography; and the K-State chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon, the international honor society in geography.

At Arizona State, Timothy serves as director of the tourism and development and management program.

He has researched and written on a wide variety of topics dealing with tourism and other aspects of human geography. In the area of tourism, Timothy's primary research interests include international boundaries, heritage conservation and interpretation, heritage politics, genealogy and personal pasts, religion and pilgrimage, shopping and consumption, trails and routes, rural landscapes, participatory development, and security issues. He has authored 60 refereed articles on these and other topics and is author-editor of 15 books and 51 chapters and sections of books.

Timothy is the founder and editor of the Journal of Heritage Tourism; commissioning editor for Channel View Publications' Aspects of Tourism book series; advisory board member of Haworth Press; and visiting professor of heritage tourism at the University of Sunderland in England. He also sits on the editorial boards of 12 international scholarly journals, is an executive board member of the Tourism Commission of the World Leisure Organization and is secretary of the International Geographical Union's Tourism Commission. He also received the 2005 Roy Wolfe Award from the Association of American Geographers' Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group for outstanding contributions to the field of tourism studies.

Timothy currently has research projects ongoing in Israel, Japan, North Korea, Nepal, Bhutan, India, Mexico, the Southwestern U.S., the Republic of Georgia and Western Europe. His projects include cross-border cooperation in natural resource management in the U.N.'s Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's world heritage sites along the Costa Rica-Panama border; political boundaries as heritage resources in the cultural landscape; and the role of international borders in relation to tourism in the popular media.

He earned his bachelor's in geography from Brigham Young University; a master's in geography from the University of Western Ontario, Canada; and a doctorate in geography from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

More information on the lecture is available by contacting Deborah Che at 785-532-3408 or dche@k-state.edu.