An Early Frost: Geography in Teachers College, Columbia and Columbia University, 1896-1942

Bres, Karen De

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“…As a field that corrals many points of view, geography has suffered many schisms. One of the early AAG presidents even suggested banning geomorphology despite the principal role of William Morris Davis in establishing that very organization (De Bres ). Within human geography, this has been manifest in the division between human‐environment and spatial‐science studies (Hanson ).…”

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Panoptic geographies: an examination of all U.S. geographic dissertations

Kaplan

Mapes

2015

Geographical Review

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The study of geography as a discipline has often employed a top‐down approach that examines the output of the field's most prominent members. In this paper, we provide a bottom‐up approach by analyzing geography dissertations. We start by assembling a database that includes the title, author, date, and university for every geographic doctoral dissertation written in the United States over the last 120 years. The database allows us to track the rise and fall of regions of interest and specific topics. It gives a broad overview of the different schools in geography and their influence within separate historical periods. And it permits a more empirically based delineation of geographical “eras” based on the commonality of words in dissertation titles. This work is at the convergence of the quantitative and qualitative; we quantify and visualize textual data to provide a more robust history of geography. The result is a new, more comprehensive way to look at the changing discipline of geography.

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Panoptic geographies: an examination of all U.S. geographic dissertations

Kaplan

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2015

Geographical Review

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“…As Gary Dunbar (1981) suggests, however, it is inadvisable to look back at institutional arrangements before 1915 and expect them to resemble our own. Ad hoc opportunities for graduate study and research in geography might emerge from within preexisting departments and programs in natural history (Harvard), geology (Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Yale, Wisconsin), economics and business (Berkeley, Pennsylvania), or some combination of these, along with teacher education (Columbia) (Dunbar 1981;Koelsch 1981;Martin 1988;DeBres 1989). As late as 1917 Goode found that nearly 70% of the members of the Association of American Geographers lived in the Eastern states; only 27% lived in the Midwest (James and Martin 1978, 66).…”

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East and Midwest in American Academic Geography: Two Prosopographic Notes

Koelsch

2001

The Professional Geographer

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This paper reexamines the conventional wisdom concerning the Midwestern origins of American academic geography at the doctoral level. Prosopographic analysis of 34 Ph.D.s awarded in geography between 1893 and 1921 finds that these were largely earned in Eastern universities, and that both Eastern and Midwestern institutions awarding doctorates in the field drew students primarily from the home region. By contrast, prosopographic examination of a second and later group, the faculty and graduate students at Clark University between 1921 and 1946, discloses an interregional pattern of recruitment closely tied to Midwestern institutions. Paradoxically, though sited in an Eastern university, early Clark geography was substantially Midwestern in personnel and program. Further institutional and prosopographic study of the early sites of graduate study is needed to reveal the complexity of American academic geography in its formative period.

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Academic Geography, American Style: An Institutional Perspective

Koelsch

2001

The GeoJournal Library

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An Early Frost: Geography in Teachers College, Columbia and Columbia University, 1896-1942

Cited by 5 publications

References 13 publications

Panoptic geographies: an examination of all U.S. geographic dissertations

Panoptic geographies: an examination of all U.S. geographic dissertations

East and Midwest in American Academic Geography: Two Prosopographic Notes

Academic Geography, American Style: An Institutional Perspective

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