Jon T. Kilpinen
Professor of Geography
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Education
Ph.D. – University of Texas at Austin (1994)
Interests
American historical geography and environmental history, Europe, political geography, GIS
Courses Taught
- GEO 102 Globalization and Development
- GEO 200 American Ethnic Geography
- GEO 215 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
- GEO 230 Remote Sensing
- GEO 285 Natural Hazards
- GEO 301 Geography of Latin America
- GEO 301 Geography of Europe
- GEO 385 Field Study
- GEO 415 Advanced GIS
- GEO 470 Political Geography
- GEO 474 Historical Geography of the United States
- GEO 490 Topics: Global Positioning Systems
- HIST 390 Topics: U.S. Environmental History
Contributions
Books
- The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape. With Terry G. Jordan and Charles F. Gritzner. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
- “Land Speculation and the Case of Greer County, Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 2005
- “Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov, 1938-2003: Gifted Scholar of the Cultural Landscape,” Material Culture, 2005
- “The Supreme Court’s Role in Choctaw and Chickasaw Dispossession,” Geographical Review, 2004
- “Greer County: Texas Irredenta?” Journal of Cultural Geography, 2004
- “The Mountain Horsebarn,” in Baseball, Barns, and Bluegrass: A Geography of American Folklife, 1998
- “Finnish Cultural Landscapes in the Pacific Northwest,” in Pacific Northwest Quarterly, Winter 1994/1995