Geo-Retirement: A Second Adolescence, a Season of Renaissance, and a Circus

Brief Biography

I have taught at three U.S. universities: University of Florida (1966–69)—Michigan State University (1969–80), and University of Kentucky (1980–2015). I have also taught for various periods in universities in nearly 20 other countries in Europe, East and Central Asia, Australia, South Africa, and the Caribbean. Travels to more than 80 countries have included presentations to more than a hundred conferences around the world. I am comfortable with living and working in many different environments and countries, all which require some or much flexibility and adaptability. I don't know which publications are most important, but I know I enjoyed working on all of them, including a proposed political reorganization of the United States (which resulted in an interview on NBC national TV in 1971), world urbanization, political geography, terrorism and 9/11 worlds, e-commerce, Walmart, time-space issues, geography and law/justice interfaces, cartooning, music, atlases of Michigan and Central Eurasia, the impacts of mega-engineering projects and religion. When I teach in other countries, I specifically seek ways to work on projects with faculty or students there; that is mutually very rewarding. All these experiences are part of my “cultural DNA.”