Craig E. Colten

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Carl O. Sauer Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6180 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: ccolten@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Syracuse University, 1984.

INTERESTS

Environmental Historical Geography
Urban Environments
Louisiana and the American South

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Perilous Place and Powerful Storms: Hurricane Protection in Coastal Louisiana.  Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2009

“Meaning of Water in the American South: Transatlantic Encounters,” Atlantic Studies 5:2 (2008): 165-184.

Robert W.Kates, Craig Colten, Shirley Laksa, and Stephen Leatherman. “Reconstruction of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina: A Research Perspective,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103:40 (2006): 14653-14660.

“Contesting Pollution in Dixie: The Case of Corney Creek” Journal of Southern History 72(2006): 605-634.

An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 2005.

RESEARCH

Water Resources in the American South
Community and Regional Resilience

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2007-   Editor, Geographical Review.
2006    Media Achievement Award, Association of American Geographers.
2005    J.B. Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers
(awarded 2006).
2002-    Editorial Board, Environmental History.

COURSES TAUGHT

Geography of Louisiana
Historical Geography
North America
Human Geography: Europe and the Americas
Seminar on Urban Environments, Pollution, Water Resources, Historical Geography