Dr. Timothy G. Anderson, Associate Professor

anderst1@ohio.edu, Clippinger Labs 104A, (740) 593–0141
Dr. Timothy G. Anderson

Present Position:

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio University

Education:

Ph.D., Geography, Texas A&M U., 1994
M.A., Geography, U. of Oklahoma, 1989
B.A., Geography, U. of Oklahoma, 1987

Employment History:

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio U., 2011–present
Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, Ohio U., 2006–2011
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio U., 2002–present
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Ohio U., 1996–2002
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Montana State U., 1995–1996

Research Interests:

Historical Geography of the United States (settlement, ethnicity, immigration, migration); Cultural Landscapes (material culture, regional expression, ethnicity); German Immigration to the United States (origins, settlement patterns and processes); World–Systems Theory

Illustrative Publications:

2008
The Proto–Industrial Background of Westphalian Immigrants in Missouri. In Josef Raab and Jan Wirrer, eds., Die deutsche Präsenz in den USA/The German Presence in the U.S.A. (Bielefeld: Lit–Verlag), pp. 117–138.

Introduction to Human Geography: A World–Systems Approach, 2nd ed. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company.

2006
Living on the Fringe: A Geographic Profile of Appalachian Ohio. In K. J. Patrick and J. L. Scarpaci, eds., Pittsburgh and the Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a Post–Industrial Age (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press), pp. 178–190 (with G. L. Buckley and N. R. Bain).

2002
Diagnostic Elements of the Pennsylvania–German Cultural Landscape in Central Ohio. The North American Geographer 4 (1–2), 21–39 (published in 2005).

2001
Proto–Industrialization, Sharecropping, and Outmigration in Nineteenth–Century Rural Westphalia. Journal of Peasant Studies 29 (1), 1–30.

The Creation of an Ethnic Culture Complex Region: Pennsylvania Germans in Central Ohio, 1790–1850. Historical Geography 29, 135–157.

On the Pre–Migration Social and Economic Experience of Nineteenth–Century German Immigrants. Yearbook of German–American Studies 36, 91–108.

1999
The Consolidation Coal Company Photograph Collection, 1910–1945. Appalachian Journal 27 (1), 62–83. With Geoffrey L. Buckley. 1993 Czech–Catholic Cemeteries in East–Central Texas: Material Culture and Ethnicity in Seven Rural Communities. Material Culture 25 (3), 1–18.

Instructional Areas:

Human Geography
Historical Geography