Smith, Jonathan M(ark) 1957-

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SMITH, Jonathan M(ark) 1957-

PERSONAL: Born November 6, 1957, in Stevens Point, WI; son of Delmont C. (a professor) and Jeannette R. M. (a librarian) Smith; married May 28, 1994; wife's name Ulrike M. Ethnicity: "White." Education: State University of New York—College at Geneseo, B.A., 1980; Syracuse University, M.A., 1987, Ph.D., 1991.

ADDRESSES: Office—Department of Geography, 800 Eller, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3147; fax: 979-862-4487. E-mail—jmsmith@tamu.edu.

CAREER: Texas A & M University, College Station, TX, visiting assistant professor, 1989-91, assistant professor, 1991-97, associate professor, 1997-2003, professor of geography, 2003—, member of executive steering committee of Center for Science and Technology Policy and Ethics, 1995—.

MEMBER: Association of American Geographers (chair of Cultural Geography Specialty Group, 1996-99), Society for Philosophy and Geography (cofounder).

WRITINGS:

(Editor, with Kenneth Foote, Peter Hugill, and Kent Matthewson, and contributor) Re-Reading Cultural Geography, University of Texas Press (Austin, TX), 1994.

(Editor, with Andrew Light, and contributor) Space, Place, and Environmental Ethics: Philosophy and Geography I, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1996.

(Editor, with Andrew Light, and contributor) The Production of Public Space: Philosophy and Geography II, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1998.

(Editor, with Andrew Light, and contributor) The Philosophy of Place: Philosophy and Geography III, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1998.

(Coeditor and contributor) Worldview Flux: Perplexed Values among Postmodern Peoples, Lexington Books (Lexington, MA), 2000.

(Coeditor and contributor) American Space/American Place, Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2002.

Contributor to books, including Written Worlds: Discourse, Text, and Metaphor in the Representation of Landscapes, edited by T. Barnes and J. Duncan, Routledge (London, England), 1991; Place/Culture/Representation, edited by J. Duncan and D. Ley, Routledge (London, England), 1993; and Concepts in Human Geography, edited by Kent Matthewson, Carville Earle, and Martin Kenzer, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1996. Contributor of articles and reviews to journals, including Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Historical Methods. Coeditor, Philosophy and Geography; newsletter editor, Society for Philosophy and Geography, 1994-97; member of editorial board, Geographical Review, 1998—; member of editorial advisory board, Ecumene: Journal of Environment, Culture, Meaning, 1993—.

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