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Stephen P. Hanna

Department of Geography

University of Mary Washington

1301 College Avenue

Fredericksburg, VA 22401

shanna@umw.edu

Education

1992-97 Ph.D. Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.

Dissertation: Representing Appalachia: Appalshop Films and the

Politics of Regional Identity.

1990-92 M.A. Department of Geography, University of Vermont.

Thesis: Underdevelopment of an Appalachian County: Economic

Development in Garrett County from the World-economy Perspective.

1983-87 B.A. Department of Geography, Clark University.

Specialization: Cartography.

Administrative and Academic Appointments

2018 - Cartography Editor, American Association of Geographers

2009 - Professor, Department of Geography, Univ. of Mary Washington

2005-14 Chair, Department of Geography, Univ. of Mary Washington

2003-08 Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Univ. of Mary Washington

1998-03 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Mary Washington College

1997-98 Senior Lecturer, Department of Geography, Mary Washington College

1993-97 Instructor, Department of Geography, University of Kentucky.

1990-92 Teaching Assistant, Department of Geography, University of Vermont.

Courses Taught FSEM 100: First Year Seminar: Maps and Politics

GEOG 101: World Regional Geography

GEOG 205: Geography and Civilization

GEOG 236: Globalization and Local Development

GEOG 250: Introduction to GIS and Cartography

GEOG 339: Geography and Development

GEOG 340: Remote Sensing and Air Photo Interpretation

GEOG 351: Geographic Information Systems

GEOG 410: Special Topics, Geography and Media

GEOG 410R: Special Topics, Practicum in Cartographic Design

GEOG 490: Seminar in Geography (various topics)

MSGA 510: Spatial Thinking (co-taught course)

MSGA 520: GeoVisualization and GeoDesign

Publications Books

Hanna, Stephen P., Amy Potter, E. Arnold Modlin, Perry Carter, and David Butler (editors)

2015. Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Research Methodologies. Routledge.

Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino (editors) 2003. Mapping Tourism.

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Modlin, E. Arnold, Amy Potter, Stephen P. Hanna, Candace Bright, Perry Carter and

Derek Alderman. 2018 Can Plantation Museums Do Full Justice to the Story of the

Enslaved? A Discussion of Problems, Possibilities, and the Place of Memory,

GeoHumanities (in press).

Hanna, Stephen P., Perry L. Carter, Amy E. Potter, Candace Forbes Bright, Derek H.

Alderman, E. Arnold Modlin, and David L. Butler 2018. “Following the Story:

Narrative Mapping as Mobile Method for Tracking and Interrogating Spatial

Narratives,” Journal of Heritage Tourism. DOI 10.1080/1743873X.2018.1459628

(https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2018.1459628)

Hanna, Stephen P., Derek H. Alderman, and Candace Forbes Bright. 2018. “From

Celebratory Landscapes to Dark Tourism Sites? Exploring the Design of Southern

Plantation Museums,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies (Stone,

P., R. Hartmann, T. Seaton, R. Sharpley, and L. White, editors). Palgrave

MacMillan. 399-422.

Stone, Meredith, Ian Spangler, Xavier Griffin, and Stephen P. Hanna 2016. “Searching for

the Enslaved in the “Cradle of Democracy”: Virginia’s James River plantation

websites and the reproduction of local social memories,” Southeastern Geographer

56(2): 203-222.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2016. “Placing the enslaved at Oak Alley Plantation: narratives, spatial

contexts, and the limits of surrogation,” Journal of Heritage Tourism 11(3): 219-

234.

Alderman, Derek H., David L. Butler, and Stephen P. Hanna. 2016. “Memory, slavery, and

plantation museums: the River Road Project,” Journal of Heritage Tourism 11(3):

209-218.

Hanna, Stephen P. and E. Fariss Hodder 2015. “Reading the Heritage Landscape with a

Qualitative GIS,” in Social Memory and Heritage Research Methodologies (Hanna,

Stephen P., Amy Potter, Arnold Modlin, Perry Carter, and David Butler, editors).

Routledge, pp. 210-230.

Hanna, Stephen P. and E. Fariss Hodder 2014. “Reading the Signs: Using a Qualitative

GIS to Examine the Commemoration of Slavery and Emancipation on Historical

Markers in Fredericksburg, Virginia,” Cultural Geographies, DOI

10.1177/147447014548161 (http://cgj.sagepub.com/content/early/2014/09/05/1474474014548161). Hanna, Stephen P. and Stephen J. Farnsworth 2013. “Visualizing Virginia’s changing

electorate: mapping presidential elections from 2000 to 2012.” The Virginia

Newsletter 89(2) (http://www.coopercenter.org/publications/VANsltr0513).

Hanna, Stephen P. 2012. “Cartographic memories of slavery and freedom: examining John

Washington's map of Fredericksburg.” Cartographica 47(1): 52-65.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2010. “Maps and diagrams” in Research Methods in Geography: A

First Course (Basil Gomez and J.P. Jones, editors). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2008. “A Slavery Museum? Race, memory, and landscape in

Fredericksburg, Virginia,” Southeastern Geographer 48(3): 316-337.

Del Casino, Vincent J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2005. “Beyond the ‘binaries’: a

methodological intervention for interrogating maps as representational practices,”

ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies Vol. 4(1): 34-56 (http://www.acme-journal.org/Volume4-1.htm).

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Hanna, Stephen P., Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr., Casey Selden, and Benjamin Hite 2004

“Representation is work: the everyday production of heritage in ‘America’s Most

Historic City,’” Social and Cultural Geography. Vol. 5(3): 459-481.

Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino 2003. “Chapter One: Tourism spaces, mapped

representations, and the practices of identity, in Mapping Tourism (Hanna, Stephen P.

and Vincent J. Del Casino, editors). University of Minnesota Press.

Del Casino, Vincent J., and Stephen P. Hanna 2003. “Chapter Eight: Mapping identities,

reading maps: the politics of representation in Bangkok’s sex tourism industry, in

Mapping Tourism (Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino, editors). University

of Minnesota Press.

Del Casino Jr., Vincent J., A. Grimes, S. P. Hanna, and J.P. Jones III. 2000. “Methodological

frameworks for the geography of organizations,” Geoforum. Vol. 31(4): 523 – 539.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2000. “Representation and the reproduction of Appalachian apace: a

history of contested signs and meanings,” Historical Geography. Vol. 28: 171-199.

Del Casino Jr., Vincent J. and Stephen P. Hanna. 2000. “Representations and identities in

tourism map spaces,” Progress in Human Geography. Vol. 24(1): 23-46.

Hanna, Stephen P. 1998 “Three decades of Appalshop films: Representational strategies

and regional politics.” Appalachian Journal. Vol. 24(4): 372 – 413.

Hanna, Stephen P. 1996 “Is it Roslyn or is it Cicely? Representation and the ambiguity of

place, “Urban Geography. Vol. 17(7): 633-649.

Hanna, Stephen P. 1995 “Finding a place in the world economy: core-periphery relations,

the nation-state and the underdevelopment of Garrett County,” Political Geography.

Vol.14(5): 451-472.

Book Reviews

Hanna, Stephen P. 2014. Mapping Wonderlands: Illustrated Cartography of Arizona,

1912-1962, by Dori Griffin. Historical Geography 43: 182.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2012. Here George Washington was Born: Memory, Material Culture,

and the Public History of a National Monument, by Seth Bruggeman. Social and

Cultural Geography Vol 13(1): 92-93.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2007. Tourism and Regional Development: New Pathways by Maria

Giaoutzi and Peter Nijkamp. Professional Geographer. Vol 59(4): 556-558.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2005. At the Beach. by Jean-Didier Urbain. Modernism/Moderinity Vol.

12(2): 353-355.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2001. The Place of Music. by Andrew Leyshon, David Matless, and

George Revill, editors. Journal of Geography. Vol. 100(5): 178.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2001. Heritage on Stage. by Steven Hoelsher. The Professional

Geographer. Vol. 53(1): 154-156.

Hanna, Stephen P. 1997 A Town Abandoned. Flint, Michigan, Confronts

Deindustrialization. by Steven P. Dandaneau. Social Science Quarterly. Vol. 78(4).

Other Publications

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2018. “People Vote, Acres Don’t: Virginia’s

2017 Election in Perspective,” Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine

Winter 2018: 8-9.

Potter, A. E., Perry L. Carter, and Stephen P. Hanna 2017. Commemorating the enslaved

along Louisiana’s River Road, AAG Newsletter, December 1, 2017.

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http://news.aag.org/2017/12/commemorating-the-enslaved-along-louisianas-river-

road/

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2017. Virginia’s changing party dynamics,

Richmond Times Dispatch. November 10, 2017.

http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/farnsworth-and-

hanna-column-virginia-s-changing-party-dynamics/article_c44b807b-2f64-57d0-

b381-0e46f38ef236.html

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2017. This one map shows the Republicans’

problem in Virginia, The Washington Post. November 9, 2017.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/11/09/this-one-map-

shows-the-republicans-problem-in-virginia/?utm_term=.2ec8bab57ec8

Hanna, Stephen P. 2017. “Local Civil War memorials give short shrift to story of slavery

and emancipation," Free-Lance Star. August 23, 2017.

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2017. “Republican Renaissance?” Virginia

Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine Winter 2017: page 4.

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2016 “Here’s how Comstock beat Bennett in

purple Northern Virginia,” The Washington Post. December 2, 2016.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/heres-how-comstock-beat-bennett-in-

purple-northern-virginia/2016/12/02/bf46a7d6-b5a1-11e6-a677-

b608fbb3aaf6_story.html?utm_term=.6a58bbe2bcad

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2016. “Trump’s rivals couldn’t catch him

Virginia’s GOP primary,” Richmond Times-Dispatch. March 11, 2016.

http://www.richmond.com/opinion/their-opinion/guest-columnists/article_c66a0dd3-

ed2b-5701-8e28-9b908166d6b8.html.

Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. 2016. “Representation and presentation,”

in The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment,

and Technology (Richardson, D. managing editor). pp. 5857-5860.

Farnsworth, Stephen J., Stephen P. Hanna, and Benjamin Hermerding 2014. “Mark

Warner: How did the supposedly popular senator almost lose?” Free Lance Star.

November 12 2014. http://www.freelancestar.com/2014-11-

12/articles/49543/commentary-warner-how-did-the-supposedly-popular-senator-

almost-lose/

Farnsworth, Stephen J., Stephen P. Hanna, and Benjamin Hermerding 2014. “Missing

moderates in Virginia: Election 2014 in the Old Dominion,” Daily Kos. November

19, 2014. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/09/1343505/-Missing-Moderates-

in-Virginia-Politics-Election-2014

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2014. “How Democrats won Virginia in

2013. Virginia Capitol Connections Quarterly Magazine, Spring 2014: 10.

http://www.vccqm.org/qm_sp_2014/#10.

Farnsworth, Stephen J., Stephen P. Hanna, and Benjamin Hermerding 2014. “Medicaid

Recipients in House of Delegates Districts,” The Richmond Times Dispatch. March

3, 2014. (online) http://www.timesdispatch.com/opinion/their-opinion/columnists-

blogs/guest-columnists/farnsworth-hanna-harris-medicaid-recipients-in-house-of-

delegates-districts/article_25acd9c1-97a8-5527-9cea-c0bfc39b9142.html.

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2013. “Why Republicans lost in Virginia –

in three great maps,” The Fix. The Washington Post (online).

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/11/12/why-republicans-lost-

in-virginia-in-three-great-maps/

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2012. “Spotsy, Stafford: Next Red Counties

to Turn Blue?” Op-ed. The Free Lance-Star. December 11, 2012.

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2012. “Virginia GOP is Losing Ground

Fast,” Op-ed. The Richmond Times-Dispatch. November 28, 2012.

Farnsworth, Stephen J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2012. “Why Purple Virginia is Starting to

Look Rather Blue,” Op-ed. The Washington Post. November 16, 2012.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-virginias-purple-is-starting-to-look-

rather-blue/2012/11/16/d7b9b14c-2ddc-11e2-9ac2-1c61452669c3_story.html

Del Casino, Vincent J. and Stephen P. Hanna 2011. “Beyond the ‘binaries’: a

methodological intervention for interrogating maps as representational practices,” in

The Map Reader: Theories of Mapping Practices and Cartographic Representation

(Dodge, M. R. Kitchen, and C. Perkins, editors). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. (first

published in ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies in 2006).

Del Casino Jr., Vincent, A. Grimes, S. P. Hanna, and J.P. Jones III. 2010.“Methodological

frameworks for the geography of organizations,” Urban Planning International Vol.

25(5): 19-31. (Mandarin translation, article first published in Geoforum in 2000).

Hanna, Stephen P. 2006. “Geography and popular culture,” in Encyclopedia of Human

Geography (Warf, Barney, editor). London: Sage.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2006. “Vision/Visuality,” in Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Warf,

Barney, editor). London: Sage.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2006. “Appalshop,” The Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville:

University of Tennessee Press.

Hanna, Stephen P. 2006. “Strangers & Kin,” The Encyclopedia of Appalachia. Knoxville:

University of Tennessee Press.

Collins, T., Ron Eller, Glen Taul, Eugene McCann, and Stephen Hanna 1996. KRADD:

Historic trends and geographic patterns. Appalachian Center, University of

Kentucky, Lexington, KY.

Popke, E. Jeffrey, S. P. Hanna, and John Pickles. 1994. “The chemical industry in the

Kanawha Valley,” Discussion Paper Series. The Regional Research Institute,

Morgantown, West Virginia. No. 9419.

Published Maps (listed by author or title of museum exhibit, article or book)

Nelson, Velvet 2017. An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism, 2nd

edition. Lanham:

Rowman and Littlefield.

Goehring, James E. 2017. “Pachomius the Great,” in The Early Christian World (Esler, P.

F., editor). London: Routledge (forthcoming).

Poska, Allyson 2016. Gendered Crossings: Women and the Spanish Colonization of

Patagonia. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico (6 maps).

Farnsworth, Stephen 2015. “The 2015 election in Virginia: A tribute to gerrymandering,”

The Fix. The Washington Post, November 5 2015 (online)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/11/05/the-2015-election-in-

virginia-a-tribute-to-gerrymandering/.

Bump, Philip 2014. “Why Mark Warner’s race turned into a nail-biter,” The Fix, The

Washington Post. November 6, 2014 (online)

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/11/06/why-mark-warners-

race-turned-into-a-nail-biter/?wpisrc=nl-fix&wpmm=1.

Cohn, Nate 2013. “ These Twisted Maps Prove that America Isn’t a Red Country,” The New

Republic November 11, 2013 (online). (1 map)

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/115550/cartograms-are-important-inforgraphic-

tool

Nir, David 2013. Don’t Be Fooled by County Maps: Cartograms Accurately Show

Democratic Strength in Virginia,” Daily Kos (online). (3 maps).

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/11/12/1255115/-Don-t-be-fooled-by-county-

maps-Cartograms-accurately-show-Democratic-strength-in-Virginia

Larus, Elizabeth F. 2012. Politics and Society in Contemporary China. Boulder: Lynne

Rienner Publishers (1 map).

First Nations Development Institute 2010, “Use of EITC and Predatory Tax Products in

Montana: 2008 Tax Filing Year,” Longmont, CO: First Nations Development

Institute (2 maps)

First Nations Development Institute 2010, Use of EITC and Predatory Tax Products in New

Mexico: 2008 Tax Filing Year,” Longmont, CO: First Nations Development Institute

(2 maps)

First Nations Development Institute 2010, Use of EITC and Predatory Tax Products in

North Dakota: 2008 Tax Filing Year,” Longmont, CO: First Nations Development

Institute (2 maps)

First Nations Development Institute 2010, Use of EITC and Predatory Tax Products in

South Dakota: 2008 Tax Filing Year,” Longmont, CO: First Nations Development

Institute (2 maps)

Hartzell, Jeanne, T. E. Jordan, & J. C. Cornwell 2010. Phosphorus burial in sediments along

the salinity gradient of the Patuxent River, a subestuary of the Chesapeake Bay

(USA). Estuaries and Coasts 33:92–106. (1 map).

Rochelle, Warren 2010. The Called. Golden Gryphon Press. (1 map).

Fouberg, E., A. Murphy, and H. de Blij 2009. Human Geography: People, Place, and

Culture. 9th

Edition. New York: Wiley (1 map)

McClurken, J. 2009. Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families

in Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (1 map).

First Nations Development Institute and Center of Responsible Lending 2009. Borrowed

Time: Use of Refund Anticipation Loans Among EITC Filers in Native American

Communities. Longmont, CO: First Nations Development Institute (10 maps co-

authored with Karen Hogan and Allyson Thompson).

French, Katherine 2007. The Good Women of the Parish: Gender and Religion after the

Black Death. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press (3 maps).

Davidson, Jason W. 2006. The Origins of Revisionist and Status-quo States. New York:

Palgrave Macmillan (2 maps).

Poska, Allyson 2005. Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain: The Peasants of

Galicia. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2 maps).

Ryan, Curt 2002. Jordan in Transition: From Hussein to Abdullah. Boulder: Lynne Rienner

(1 map).

A River Runs through Us 2002. The Fredericksburg Area Museum. (one 9’ x 3’ map).

Supervised and edited cartographic work of 7 MWC geography majors.

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Krickus, Richard 2002. The Kaliningrad Question. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield (1

map).

Hansen, Bradley 2001. “Learning to tax: The political economy of the Iranian opium

trade,” The Journal of Economic History. Vol. 61(1): 95 - 113 (1 map).

Fouberg, Erin Hogan. 2000. Tribal Territory, Sovereignty, and Governance: A Study of the

Cheyenne River and Lake Traverse Reservations. New York: Garland Publishing (1

map).

Connecting Californians: Finding the Art of Community Change. 2000. San Francisco: The

James Irvine Foundation. 2 maps).

French, Katherine 2000. The People of the Parish in a Medieval Diocese. Philadelphia:

University of Pennsylvania Press. (4 maps).

Awards

2018 American Association of Geographers Fellow

2017 Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Research

Honors Award

2016 University of Mary Washington Waple Faculty Professional Achievement Award.

Grants and Contracts

2016-2017 University of Mary Washington Faculty Development Grant. $4000. “Landscapes and

Narratives of Enslavement at James River Plantation Museums.”

2014-2017 National Science Foundation Geography and Spatial Sciences Program (GSS),

“Transformation of Racialized American Southern Heritage Landscapes” with David

Butler, Derek Alderman, Perry Carter, Arnold Modlin, and Amy Potter. Award #

1359780. $445,423

2014-2016 University of Mary Washington Waple Professorship. $30,000

2014-2015 Preservation Partners, LLC. Contract to identify parcels within Virginia’s Civil War

Battlefield Study Areas. $10,000

2011 George Washington Regional Commission (J. Gallagher, P.I). Subcontract to classify

Fredericksburg’s parcels using the APA’s Land Based Classification System. $2,500.

2007 University of Mary Washington Program Development Grant (with Grant Woodwell).

Project entitled: Development of a Professional Certificate Program in Geographic

Information Systems (GIS), $58,000.

2004 Mary Washington College Faculty Development Grant. Project titled, The Inclusion

of African-American Experiences in Fredericksburg’s Heritage Tourism Landscape,

$3,000.

2001 Campus Academic Resource Committee: Public History Lecture Series

(with Eric Gable), $2,500

Jepson Funds for Excellence Grant, Mary Washington College (with Eric

Gable). Project titled: Studying Public History: An Interdisciplinary Student-

Oriented Research Project, $7,000

Mary Washington College Faculty Development Grant. Project titled, Mapping

Tourism Spaces: Representation, Identity, and Intertextuality, $3,000

1999 Mary Washington College Faculty Development Grant. Project titled, Global

Change and Local Community Development: Roles of Cultural Organizations,

$3,918

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Presentations

2018 “Slavery and the Plantation Museum Experience” with Amy Potter. University of

Nottingham, UK (invited).

“Mapping Narratives and Performances within Plantation Museum Assemblages,”

American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA.

2017 “Using Qualitative GIS to Track Changes in Commemorative Landscapes after

Charlottesville,” with Eli McCleary. Southeastern Division of the Association of

American Geographers Annual Meeting, Starkville, MS.

“The Plantation Museum as a Violent Assemblage: Untangling the Politics of

Remembering Slavery at White Supremacy’s Ground Zero,” with Derek H.

Alderman, Amy Potter, Perry Carter, Candace Bright, Arnold Modlin, and David

Butler. American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston, MA.

“Race, Memory, and Southern Heritage Tourism: The Politics of Doing Justice to

the Enslaved at Plantation Museums,” with Derek H. Alderman. Virginia Tech

(invited).

2016 “More than just a Ghost Story: Plantations, Hauntings, and the Trivialization of Dark

Tourism Experiences.” With Christine MacKrell. Race, Ethnicity, and Place

Conference, Kent, Ohio.

“From Celebratory Landscapes to Dark Tourism Sites? Exploring the Design of

Southern Plantation Museums.” with Derek H. Alderman. Association of

American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California.

2015 “Spatializing narratives of the enslaved at plantation museums.” Southeastern

Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,

Pensacola, FL.

“Memory, Slavery, and Plantation Museums: The River Road Project,” with Derek

H. Alderman. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago,

Illinois.

2014 “Representing the Enslaved at a Plantation Museum: a Critical Reading of Oak

Alley’s Slave Cabin Exhibit. Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference, Ft. Worth,

Texas.

Panelist, Exploring Southern Landscapes of Memory with Digital Methods and

Technologies (co-organized with Derek Alderman). Association of American

Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida.

“Creating a Narrative Space for Commemorating an Enslaved Community: A

Critical Examination of the Oak Alley Plantation’s Slave Cabin Exhibit.”

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa, Florida.

2013 “From Symbolic Annihilation to Commemorative Surrogation: Reconstructing Oak

Alley’s Slave Cabins.” Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Annual Meeting, Roanoke, Virginia.

“Reading the Heritage Landscape Using a Public History GIS,” with E. Fariss

Hodder, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles,

California.

“Visualizing Virginia’s Changing Electorate: Mapping Presidential Elections from

2000 to 2012,” with Stephen J. Farnsworth, Virginia Social Science Association

Annual Meeting, Richmond, Virginia.

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2012 “Celebrating Emancipation and Remembering Slavery: Landscape Performances and

Texts in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference, San

Juan, Puerto Rico

Panelist, Alternative Tourism. Association of American Geographers Annual

Meeting, New York, New York.

2011 “Narratives of Slavery and Emancipation in Fredericksburg's Heritage Tourism

Landscape,” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle,

Washington

Panelist, Geography, Liberal Arts, and Interdisciplinarity: Strategies for a Shared

Space. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Seattle,

Washington

2010 “Slavery, War, and a Town Transformed: Exploring Fredericksburg’s Cultural

Landscapes,” Field Trip for the Association of American Geographers Annual

Meeting, Washington, DC. (co-lead with John Hennessy, NPS)

2009 “Mapping Memories of Slavery and Emancipation: John Washington's Map of Civil

War Fredericksburg.” Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Annual Meeting, Knoxville, TN.

“Cartographic Memories of Slavery and Freedom: Examining John Washington's

Map of Fredericksburg” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,

Las Vegas.

2008 “Subverting Civilization: Re-Mapping World History” with Melina Patterson.

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston.

2007 “Race, Memory, and Fredericksburg’s Heritage Tourism Landscape,” Association

for the Study of African-American Life and History Annual Meeting, Charlotte.

Panelist: Research Design and Methodologies for Critical GIS Research. Association

of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

2006 “Race, Memory, and Fredericksburg’s Changing Heritage Tourism Landscape.”

Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference. San Marcos, Texas.

“The Inclusion of African-American Experiences in Fredericksburg’s Heritage

Tourism Landscape.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,

Chicago.

2004 “Where is the ‘ethnos’ in the geographer’s ethnography?: an interrogation of

ethnographic practice within a framework of cultural geography,” with Vincent J.

Del Casino, Jr. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting,

Philadelphia.

2002 “Tourism Workers and the Reproduction of Heritage in ‘America’s Most Historic

City,’” with Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr. and Casey Selden. Association of American

Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles.

2001 “The Everyday Production of Heritage in Fredericksburg, Virginia,” with Vincent J.

Del Casino, Jr., Casey Selden, and Benjamin Hite. Southeastern Division of the

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Lexington (refereed).

Film Discussant, Stranger with a Camera (Appalshop 2000). James River Film

Festival, Richmond, VA.

Panelist, “Interrogating Tourism Map Spaces, New Guides to Space and Identity.”

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York.

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2000 “Memories, Media, and Murder: Appalachia and the War on Poverty,” Association of

American Geographers Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh.

1999 “A Methodological Framework for Geography’s ‘Organizational Turn.” with Vincent

J. Del Casino, Jr., Andrew J. Grimes, and John Paul Jones, III, Southeastern

Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Tampa

(refereed).

“Towards a Geography of Organizations,” with John Paul Jones III, and Vincent J.

Del Casino, Jr. Institute of British Geographers. Special Session on Institutional

Geographies, Dundee, Scotland.

“Producing a Mass Media Region: A History of Representing Appalachia”

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Honolulu.

1998 “Cultural Organizations and Community Development: Appalshop and Whitesburg,

Kentucky.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston.

1997 “Poststructuralism on the Ground? Appalshop and the Politics of Regional Identity.”

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Fort Worth.

Panelist. “From Jed to Jesco, the Dancing Outlaw: Appalachia in Popular Culture.”

Connections. The 2nd Annual Multidisciplinary Graduate Student Conference,

Lexington.

1996 “Signs of the Liminal: Constructing Spatial Identities in the Tourist Map.” with

Vincent J. Del Casino Sixth Annual Geography Graduate Student Conference,

Bloomington.

“‘It’s What You’ve Been Looking For.’ Liminality in Tourist Maps and Spaces.” with

Vincent J. Del Casino. Third Annual Cincinnati Mini-Conference on Critical

Geography, Cincinnati.

“Re-Writing Appalachia: Representing Social Space in Appalshop’s Beyond

Measure.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Charlotte.

1995 “Appalachia as Beyond Measure: Creating Space for Cultural Politics in an

Appalshop Film,” SEDAAG Annual Meeting, Knoxville. (refereed).

“Representing Appalachia: Opening Spaces for Cultural Politics.” Second Annual

Cincinnati Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, Cincinnati.

“Is it Roslyn or Is it Cicely? Place, Politics, and Media.” Association of American

Geographers, Annual Meeting, Chicago.

1994 “Uneven Development, Community Politics and Local Government Development

Policy.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco.

“Community Politics, Economic Development and Risk in the Kanawha Valley,” with

E. Jeffrey Popke. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San

Francisco.

1993 “Finding a Place in the World-Economy: Using World-Systems Analysis to Examine

Underdevelopment in Garrett County, Maryland.” World-Systems Political

Geography: Political Geography Specialty Group Pre-conference, Blacksburg.

Research and Cartographic Consulting

2000 Cartographer for Connecting Californians: Finding the Art of

Community Change. The James Irvine Foundation, San Francisco, California.

1996 Research Assistant: Initiative 19 Planning Group and the National Center for

Geographic Information Analysis.

1995-96 Research Assistant: Appalachian Center, University of Kentucky.

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1995 Research Assistant: Center for Cartography and Geographic Information,

University of Kentucky.

1993-94 Research Assistant: Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University.

1993 Research Assistant: Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, University of Kentucky.

1987-90 Technical Draftsperson: Weston Geophysical, Inc. Westboro, Massachusetts.

Service

2017-18 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Dean Search Committee, UMW

Member, Campus Environment Presidential Ad Hoc Committee, UMW

Member, Alvey Scholarship Committee, UMW

Member, MSGA Admissions Committee, UMW

Member, GIS Working Group

Article reviewer for Professional Geographer

2016-17 External Reviewer, Geography Department, Middlebury College.

External Reviewer for promotion candidate, Department of Geography, Middlebury

College.

Member, MSGA Admissions Committee, UMW

Member, Alvey Scholarship Committee, UMW

Member, GIS Working Group

Article reviewer for Journal of Cultural Geography

Book Proposal Reviewer for White Supremacy and the Making of America, WVU

Press.

2015-16 External Reviewer for promotion candidate, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and

Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell.

Member, Alvey Scholarship Committee, UMW

Article reviewer for Cultural Geographies

Webmaster, Geography, UMW

2014-15 Webmaster, Geography, UMW

Alvey Scholarship Committee

Article reviewer for Cultural Geographies

External Reviewer for promotion candidate, Geography Department, IUPUI.

2013-14 Chair, Geography Department, UMW

Chair, Geography Search Committee, UMW

GIS Working Group, UMW

Article reviewer for Cultural Geographies

2012-13 Member, Alvey Scholarship Committee, UMW

GIS Working Group, UMW

2011-12 Chair, Geography Department, UMW

CAS Promotion and Tenure Committee, UMW

GIS Working Group, UMW

Master Planning Committee, UMW

External Reviewer, Geography Program, University of Maine, Farmington

2011-12 Article Reviewer for Social and Cultural Geography

2010-11 Chair, Geography Department, UMW

CAS Promotion and Tenure Committee, UMW

GIS Working Group, UMW

Master Planning Committee, UMW

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2010-11 Monroe Hall Building Renovation Committee, UMW

2009-10 Chair, Geography Department, UMW

GIS Working Group, UMW

Strategic Planning Steering Committee, UMW

Master Planning Committee, UMW

Monroe Hall Building Renovation Committee, UMW

2008-09 Chair, Geography Department, UMW

Co-Chair, GIS Working Group

Strategic Planning Steering Committee, UMW

Monroe Hall Building Renovation Committee

2007-08 Chair, Geography Department, UMW

Co-Chair, Task Group on General Education, UMW

Co-Chair, GIS Working Group, UMW

Chair, Ad hoc Global Inquiry General Education Committee, UMW

Ad hoc Natural Science General Education Committee, UMW

Monroe Hall Building Renovation Committee, UMW

Virginia Forum Local Arrangements Committee, UMW

2006-07 Chair, Geography Department, UMW

Chair, GIS Specialist Search Committee, UMW

Faculty Development and Grants Committee, UMW

General Education Review Committee, UMW

Monroe Hall Building Renovation Committee, UMW

Virginia Forum Planning Committee, UMW

Article Reviewer, The Geographical Review

2005-06 Chair, Geography Department, UMW.

Chair, Physical Geography Search Committee, UMW.

Faculty Development and Grants Committee, UMW.

Editorial Board, Southeastern Geographer

Cartographic Consultant, Friends of the Rappahannock

Session Chair, American Studies Association Meeting, Washington, DC

2004-05 Faculty Development and Grants Committee, UMW.

Career Advisor, Geography Department, UMW.

Editorial Board, Southeastern Geographer

Article Reviewer for Southeastern Geographer

Cartographic Consultant, Friends of the Rappahannock

2003-04 Writing Intensive Across the Curriculum Committee, MWC

Career Advisor, Geography Department, MWC

Editorial Board, Southeastern Geographer.

Article Reviewer for Southeastern Geographer.

Article Reviewer for North Carolina Geographer.

Geography Department Faculty Search Committee, MWC.

2002-03 Geography Department Senator, Faculty Senate, MWC.

Writing Intensive Across the Curriculum Committee, MWC

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2002-03 Program Committee, Southeastern Division of the Association of American

Geographers Annual Meeting. Richmond, VA., November 23-26, 2002.

Article Reviewer for Social and Cultural Geography

Article Reviewer for Journal of Geography

2001-02 Geography Department Senator, Faculty Senate, MWC.

Writing Intensive Across the Curriculum Committee, MWC

Article Reviewer for Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Article Reviewer for Journal of Geography

2000-01 Chair, Global Awareness Across the Curriculum Committee, MWC

Geography Department Senator, Faculty Senate, MWC.

Geography Department Faculty Search Committee, MWC.

Article Reviewer for Annals of the Association of American Geographers.

Book Proposal Reviewer for The Encyclopedia of Development. Routledge.

Co-organizer of Panel Session (with Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr.), “Interrogating

Tourism Map Spaces, New Guides to Space and Identity.” Association of

American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York.

1999-00 Chair, Global Awareness Across the Curriculum Committee, MWC.

Faculty Development and Grants Committee, MWC.

Alumni Awards Selection Committee. MWC.

Article Reviewer, Journal of Geography

Session Co-organizer (with Dydia DeLyser), Memory, Identity, and Landscape

Sessions I and II, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh,

Pennsylvania.

1998-99 Global Awareness Across the Curriculum Committee, MWC.

Race and Gender Intensive Across the Curriculum Committee, MWC.

Graduate School Information Session Panelist. Oct. 1998.

Article Reviewer, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.