Martin Distinguished Geographer Lecturer April 16

Geographer Geoffrey J. Martin will present "History of American Geography 1870-1960" on Thursday, April 16 at 4 p.m. in the Bone Student Center Circus Room.  Martin is the Department of Geography-Geology's 2009 Distinguished Geography Lecturer.  The event is free and open to the public.

Martin is a distinguished professor emeritus at South Connecticut State University and holds degrees from the London School of Economics and Political Science and from Kings College.  He is the co-author of All Possible Worlds: A History of Geographical Ideas, first published in 1972 with the most recent revised edition in 2005.  He is also the co-author and editor of The Association of American Geographers: The First Seventy-Five Years, 1904-1979.   He is currently working on a history of American geography, largely from archival sources.

The Distinguished Geography Lecturer series is made possible by E. Joan Miller, an Illinois State professor emerita of geography.