Geography Speaker's Bio
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Dr. Amy Glasmeier
Dr. Amy Glasmeiers is the E. Willard Miller Professor of Economic Geography and Professor of Geography and Regional Planning, and John Whisman Appalachian Regional Scholar. Since 1992, she has taught courses in regional economic development, economic and industrial geography, Appalachia, and poverty, race and class. She is a former chair of the Department of Geography (1995–1996) and a former center director in the Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation (1997–2001).
She began her career at Penn State in 1985, and then in 1986 moved to the University of Texas at Austin to be a faculty member in the Department of Community and Regional Planning and teach courses in development. Dr. Glasmeier has a master’s and a Ph.D. in Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley (1980–1986) and did her undergraduate work in environmental studies and planning at Sonoma State University (1976–1979).
She spent a year in Washington, D.C., at the Aspen Institute (1992), conducting an analysis of the implications of globalization for rural development. The period 1996–1998 was her first occasion as the John D. Whisman Appalachian Regional Scholar and worked with the Appalachian Regional Commission in exploring that agency’s development legacy. Dr. Glasmeier was a visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1998–1999), and at the University of Oslo, Norway (2000), and is currently a fellow of the Economic Policy Institute (2002–present) and a Research Affiliate of the Rural Poverty Research Center at the University of Missouri and Oregon State University (2003–present). She spent 2005–2006 at the Carsey Institute at the University of Vermont, directed by Dr. Cynthia Duncan, as a senior research associate.
Dr. Glasmeier’s research has been funded by The Ford Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the Economic Development Administration, the Appalachian Regional Commission, the OECD, the National Science Foundation and a range of state agencies and community foundations and organizations.
The Department of Geography at California State University, Long Beach, welcomes Dr. Glasmeier as our keynote speaker for Geography Awareness Week/GIS Day 2006. She will present "Mapping Economic Despair in Long Beach, California: Technical Challenges and POlicy Opportunities," 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m., Multicultural Center.
Additionally, she will make a presentation for our "Jobs in Geography" colloquium series: "Activism and Professionalism: Antipathy or Accommodation," 6-7 p.m., LA4-100.
