Department of Geography Through Time

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Geography Newsletters (the following are links to pdf files for each year listed  |  2015  |  2014  |  2013  |  2012  |  2011  |  2008–2009  |  2007–2008  |  2006-2007  |  2005-2006  |  2003-2004  |  2002-2003  |  2001-2002

Four paintings by Roger Balm of the buildings where the Department of Geography has been located. First in 147 College Avenue, then 3 Senior Street, then in the Simeon De Witt House, and currently in Lucy Stone Hall.

The following is a link to a personal history of the Department of Geography written by J. Kenneth Mitchell (the latest version will be available from Rutgers Special Collections and University Archives).
Geography on the Banks of the Raritan: A history (1949-2024) by James K. Mitchell

Information below are excerpts from a personal history of the Department of Geography written by J. Kenneth Mitchell.

“Andy” Clark (b.1911-d.1975) founded the present Rutgers University Department of Geography in 1949 and initiated a broad departmental interest in the human dimensions of the physical environment that endures to this day. He received a Geography Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley under the tutelage of Carl Sauer, one of North American Geography’s early foundational figures. When he arrived at Rutgers in 1946 Andy held an Associate Professorship in the Department of Geology but felt the need for a separate unit that would put humans at the center of environmental change research. At the time of his promotion to Full Professor in 1949 he had persuaded the University to set up a new Geography Department, the inaugural address for which was written by Isaiah Bowman, Director of the American Geographical Society, President of Johns Hopkins University, and an adviser to President Woodrow Wilson. It is believed by some of his contemporaries that Clark moved on from Rutgers because it did not possess a Geography Graduate Program. By the time he left, for the University of Wisconsin-Madison – where he would establish a “school” of historical geography and mentor an outstanding generation of graduates – the Rutgers Department of Geography was firmly in being with four faculty. Two of the early appointees became stalwarts of the Geography community at Rutgers who guided the fledgling unit for decades after Clark’s departure in 1951. Guido G. Weigend (b.1922-d.2016) and John E. Brush (b.1919-d.2007) had outsize influence on the shaping of Geography at Rutgers, because of their early arrival, long tenure, and executive leadership roles, as well as their scholarly contributions.

Geographers on the Rutgers Faculty, 1946-2024