Kent Mathewson

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6073 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: kentm@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural Geography (landscape change; ideological landscapes)
Historical Geography (tropical travel and exploration)
History of Geography (anthropogeography; colonialism)
Cultural and Political Ecology (traditional & ancient agriculture)
Latin America (Central America, Andean Regions); American South; Oceania (Fiji)

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

M. Steinberg, Hobbs, J. and K. Mathewson, eds., 2004. Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the
Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Mathewson, K. and M.S. Kenzer, eds., 2003. Culture, Land, and Legacy:  Perspectives on Carl O. Sauer and Berkeley School Geography. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, Geoscience and Man, 37.

Earle, C., Mathewson, K. and M.S. Kenzer, eds., 1996. Concepts in Human Geography. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield.

Foote, K., Hugill, P., Mathewson, K. and J. Smith, eds. 1994. ReReading Cultural Geography.
Austin: University of Texas Press.

Mathewson, K., ed. 1993. Culture, Form, and Place: Essays in Cultural & Historical Geography. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, Geoscience and Man, 32.

Denevan, W.M., Mathewson, K. and G.W. Knapp, eds. 1987. Prehispanic Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region. Oxford:  British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 359.

Mathewson, K. 1984. Irrigation Horticulture in Highland Guatemala: The Tablón System of Panajachel. Boulder, CO: Westview.


Articles & Book Chapters:

Mathewson, K. 1987. "Sauer South by Southwest:  Antimodernism and the Austral Impulse," in M.S. Kenzer (ed.) Carl O. Sauer:  A Tribute (Corvallis:  Oregon State University Press), pp. 90-111.

Mathewson, K. 2000. "Cultural Landscapes and Ecology III: Foraging/Farming, Food, Festivities," Progress in Human Geography 24 (3): 457-74.

Mathewson, K. 2001. "Between ‘In Camp’ and ‘Out-of-Bounds’: Notes on the History of
Fieldwork in American Geography," Geographical Review 91(4): 215-24.

Mathewson, K. and M.K. Steinberg, 2003. "Drug Production, Commerce and Terrorism", in 
Cutter, S., Richardson, D., and T. Wilbanks (eds.), The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism, ppg. 59-66. New York: Routledge.


SUPPORTED RESEARCH

1996. NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant [PI for Steven Rainey - Guatemala]
1995. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Program (UC-Berkeley)    
1994. Manship Award for Summer Research in Guatemala, LSU College of Arts & Sciences

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2003. Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.
2000. Elected National Councilor, Association of American Geographers (2001-2004)

Elected & Appointed Offices:

2002-05. Member, Membership Committee (AAG)
2000-02. Member, Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Committee (AAG)
1999-03. Member, History and Archives Committee (AAG)
1999-01. Director, History of Geography Specialty Group (AAG)
1997-05. AAG Representative to AAAS Section H (Anthropology)
1994-96. Chair, Cultural Ecology Specialty Group (AAG)
1990-92. Board of Directors, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG)
1990-92. Chair, Latin American Specialty Group (AAG)
1988-92. Secretary-Treasurer, Newsletter Editor, Cultural Ecology  Specialty Group  (AAG)
1988-90. Director, Latin American Specialty Group (AAG)
1987-93. Honors Committee, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers
1984-86. Director, Cultural Ecology Specialty Group (AAG).

Editorships & Editorial Boards:                  

2001-present. Consulting Editor, General Geography Section, Handbook of Latin American Studies
1999-present. Book Review Editor, Historical Geography
1997-present. Board, The Southwestern Geographer
1996-present. Board, Journal of Cultural Geography
1994-1999. International Advisory Board, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
1994-1996. Book Review Editor, Annals of the Association of American Geographers
1993-1996. Co-Editor, Geoscience and Man Series

COURSES TAUGHT

Human Geography: The Americas & Europe (introductory level)
History of Geography (intermediate level)
Elements of Cultural Geography (intermediate level)
Environment & Development (intermediate level)
Latin America (intermediate level)
Introduction to Graduate Study (graduate level course)
Culture History (graduate seminar with variable topics)
Problems in Latin American Geography (graduate seminar

LANGUAGES

Spanish - Read and speak well
Portuguese - Read well, speak some
French - Some reading knowledge
German - Some reading knowledge