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Welcome
to the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University.
The department has long ranked as one of the nation's premier doctoral departments
of geography and it also offers a highly respected master's degree in anthropology.
A combined department of geography and anthropology is rare. This disciplinary
combination is intellectually exciting and professionally stimulating. Anthropologists
and geographers—with interests in the United States, the Caribbean, Latin
America, and Asia—collaborate in both research and teaching.
Please browse our website to learn more about us. If you have any questions,
please feel free to contact me at
John C. Pine
Interim Chair
Patrick Hesp, along with Mike Blum in the LSU Department
of Geology & Geophysics and Torbjorn Tornqvist at Tulane University, received
a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study middle- to late-Holocene
sea-level change and coastal evolution in the Gulf of Mexico.
Dydia DeLyser recently earned the Phi Kappa Phi
Award for Non-Tenured Faculty in the Social Sciences and Humanities, a competitive,
University-wide award for research, teaching, and service at LSU.
At the meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Denver, Colorado,
DeLyser was elected co-chair of the AAG's Qualitative Research Specialty Group.
In addition, her book, Ramona Memories:
Tourism and the Shaping of Southern California, was recently reviewed
in such prominent outlets as the New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, and the San Diego Union-Tribune. The result of a decade
of archival research, the book traces the influences of a nineteenth-century
novel on the real landscapes of southern California. It was published by the
University of Minnesota Press.
Kam-biu Liu and his co-PIs Andy Reese and David Cochran
at the University of Southern Mississippi recently received an NSF grant of
$199,868 for their project on catastrophic hurricane strikes in Honduras and
Nicaragua. Liu also received a new research grant of $40,000 from the Risk Prediction
Initiative for his project examining Hurricane Ivan in relation to prehistoric
hurricane strikes.
In addition, Liu's work on paleotempestology was featured in a NGS documentary
film, "Violent Earth," that was broadcast on the National Geographic TV channel
in May 2005.
Nina Lam recently was appointed to the editorial board
of The Professional Geographer.
She is currently associate editor of Geographic
Information Sciences, and serves on the editorial board of three
other journals.
Dr. Heather McKillop's latest research on the
ancient Maya was just released in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Several news articles have also been written on her most recent discoveries.
View some of the articles by clicking
here or the official University press release by clicking
here.
Mark your calendars
for September 9, 2005 and be a part of the Department of Geography & Anthropology's
Alumni Seminar Room dedication. Watch for further details.
Hurricane season is upon us again. Hurricane experts in the LSU Department of
Geography & Anthropology are part of one of the largest groups of hurricane
experts in the nation. For tropical weather information, click here.
A recent survey ranked LSU's historical geography program as the "strongest"
in the U.S. The author was Douglas Hurt, who presented his findings at the annual
AAG meeting in Denver.
Geography & Anthropology students explored religious and political ideology
in the landscapes near San Antonio, Texas. Pictures.
The department recently established a new laboratory in honor of Boyd Professor
Emeritus H. Jesse Walker. The new H.J. Walker
Geomorphology Research Laboratory will be used to study areas such as coastal
dynamics and management. For more information, please contact Dr.
Patrick Hesp or Dr. Steven Namikas.
For the most recent happenings in and around the department, check out Latitudes, the departmental newsletter.
For other activities, check out the departmental calendar and watch for further updates.
Department of Geography & Anthropology
Louisiana State University
227 Howe-Russell Geoscience Complex
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-4105
Phone: (225) 578-5942
Fax: (225) 578-4420
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