Retirement? You Must Be Joking

Brief Biography

Anne Buttimer is Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College Dublin, was President of the International Geographical Union (2000-2004). Since earning a Ph D in geography at University of Washington (Seattle) in 1965 she has held research and teaching positions in Belgium, Canada, France, Scotland, Sweden, and USA. Her publications cover issues ranging from social space and urban planning to the history of ideas and environmental concern. Some of these have been published in translation to Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Latvian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. She served on several committees of the International Council for Science (ICSU), is currently member, Board of Management for the International Year of Planet Earth (2007-2009), and member, Council for Science for the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She has received many awards and honours, including a post-doctoral fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation 1965-1966; Fulbright-Hays Visiting Professor in Social Ecology to Sweden 1976; Association of American Geographers Honors Award 1986; Ellen Churchill Semple Award, University of Kentucky 1991; Elected member Academia Europaea 1993; Chair AE Social Section 2010, Vice President 2013+; Royal Geographical Society (UK) Murchison Award 1997; Royal Scottish Geographical Society Millenium Award 2000; August Wahlberg Medal in Gold from King of Sweden, 2009; Doctor, honoris causa, University of Joensuu, 1999; Tartu University 2004, Universite de Grenoble 2012; Lifetime Achievement award of the Association of American Geographers 2014; Vaudrin-Lud International;Geography Prize 2014; Ambassador Conference Award, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Dublin 2016.