Kent Mathewson

PERSONAL INFORMATION

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.

INTERESTS

Cultural/Historical Geography (Landscape Change; Colonialism)
History of Geography (Anthrogeography)
Latin America, American South, Atlantic World

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2009 Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape: Readings and Commentaries.  Baton Rouge: LSU Press. 480 pp. (W. M. Denevan and K. Mathewson, eds).

2008 Ethno- and Historical Geographic Studies in Latin America: Essays in Honor of William V. Davidson. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications. 346 pp. (P. H. Herlihy, K. Mathewson, and C. S. Revels, eds).

2004 Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes  (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 325 pp. (M. Steinberg, J. Hobbs and K. Mathewson, eds)

2003 Culture, Land, and Legacy:  Perspectives on Carl Sauer and Berkeley School Geography. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications. 353 pp. (K. Mathewson and M. S. Kenzer, eds).

1996 Concepts in Human Geography. Savage, MD: Rowman and Littlefield. 486 pp. (C. Earle, K. Mathewson and M.S. Kenzer, eds).

1994  ReReading Cultural Geography. Austin: University of Texas Press. 494 pp. (K. Foote, P. Hugill, K. Mathewson, and J. Smith, eds).               

1993 Culture, Form, and Place: Essays in Cultural & Historical Geography. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications. 356 pp. (K. Mathewson, ed).

1987 Prehispanic Agricultural Fields in the Andean Region. Oxford:  British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 359). 503 pp. (W. M. Denevan, K. Mathewson and G. W. Knapp, eds)

1984  Irrigation Horticulture in Highland Guatemala:  The Tablón System of Panajachel. Boulder:  Westview Press. 180 pp.

RESEARCH

American Geographical Society, Bowman Expedition, Leeward Islands, Caribbean.

LSU Office of Research & Development, “Environments, Histories, Cultures: The South, Caribbean, and Atlantic Worlds” Cluster research initiative
 
Invasive Species American South; Travel Accounts Ecuador; History of Berkeley School

 
HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2007-    Book Review Editor, Geographical Review
2006-    Chair, History of Geography Specialty Group, AAG
2003     Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2001-04 National Councilor, Association of American Geographers (AAG)
1997-    AAG Representative to AAAS Section H (Anthropology)

COURSES TAUGHT

Human Geography: Europe and the Americas
History of Geography
Cultural Geography
Latin America
Seminars in Culture History (various topics – e.g. invasive species, environmental history, Atlantic Studies)

Call for Papers: Louisiana and the Caribbean in the Atlantic World: Environments, Histories and Cultures. Click HERE

For Dr. Mathewson's current C.V. click HERE.