DEPARTMENT OF GEOGRAPHY
Faculty
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Roger Balm Department of Geography balm@rci.rutgers.edu Phone: (732) 445-4128 Lucy Stone Hall Room B-238 Curriculum Vita |
| Research Interests: | Research focuses on the intersections of visual art and geography with an emphasis on the dual role of images as both geographic data and components of geographic imagination. Applied work (see selected publications) has investigated the use of photography in early field surveys and expeditions and the forensic analysis of documentary sketches, particularly those produced at archaeological sites. Field areas of interest are principally in Central and South America. |
| Teaching: |
Taught courses over the last several years include cultural, environmental, and resource geography at the undergraduate level and a graduate seminar on geographic information in the visual arts. |
| Education: |
Ph.D. Geography. Rutgers University. 1996 M.S. Geography. University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 1992 B.Ed. University of Nottingham (England). 1970 |
| Selected Publications: |
Balm, R. 2008, forthcoming. "Discovery as Autobiography." Terrae Incognitae.
Balm, R. 2007. "Indigenous Cultures: Mesoamerica." Encyclopedia of Women in World History. Oxford University Press. Balm, R. 2007. "Disinterment and the Magically Real." Middle States Geographer 39:111-116. Balm, R. and Holcomb, B. 2003. “Unlosing Lost Places: Image-making, Tourism and the Return to Terra Cognita.” In Lubbren, Nina and Crouch, David (eds.) Visual Culture and Tourism, pp. 157-174. Oxford: Berg. Balm, R. 2004. The Expeditionary Eye: Reconstructing the First Photographs of Machu Picchu.” Focus on Geography 47:4: 8-14. Balm, R. 2003. “Art of the Expedition: Thomas Moran and the Devil’s Landscape of Yellowstone.” Middle States Geographer 35:128-136. Balm, R. 2000. “Expeditionary Art: An Appraisal.” Geographical Review 90 (4):585-602. |