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Geography Newsletters (the following are links to pdf files for each year listed | 2015 | 2013-2014 | 2012-2013 | 2011-2012 | 2010-2011 | 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
Andrew Clark 1946-1951
William L. Thomas, Jr. 1947-1950
Guido Weigend 1949-1976
Frank L. Keller 1949-1950?
Iven V. Bennett 1950-1954
B. Ross Guest 1950-1951
John Brush 1951-1984
David I. Blumenstock 1952-1955
William H. Wallace 1954-1956
Roberto Lizarralde 1957-1958
William Goodwin 1957-1960
H. Roy Merrens 1960-1961
William Warntz 1961-1962
Melvin G. Marcus 1961-1964
Ann Larimore 1961-1964
John Kolars 1961-1964
Arthur Getis 1963-1977
Peter Wacker 1964-2003
Robert Muller 1964-1968
Jacqueline Beyer 1964-1969
Bruce E. Newling 1965-1967
Frank Kelland 1967-1970
Robert Hordon 1967-2009
Barry J. Garner 1967
Osa E. Lindberg 1967 (Fall)
George Carey 1967,1974 -1990s?
Harry Margulis 1967-1973 (U-NWK)
Allan Frey 1968? (Spring)
Jerry P. Schofer 1969, 1974-2001
Robert Brown 1969-1977
Norbert Psuty 1969-2002
Howard L. Gautier 1960s?
James K. Mitchell 1970-2016
Baruch Boxer 1970-1999
Robert A. Obudho 1970-1982
Ralph J. Caprio 1970-?
Michael Greenberg 1971-2018
Briavel Holcomb 1972-2017
William Ross 1973-1974
Lata Chatterjee 1973-1975
Ken Hewitt 1973-1976
Robert Lake 1974-2020
Bonham Richardson 1974-1977
Janet Schuh (Crane) 1974-1979
Charles Ogrosky 1975-1979
Karl Nordstrom 1975-2020
Tom Clark 1976-1982
Susan Cutter 1977-1993
Glen Miller 1978-1983
William Renwick 1978-1985
Wilbert Gesler 1978-1981
Robert Roundy 1979-2005
Quentin Gillard 1979-1982
Robin Flowerdew 1980-1981
Gerard Fish 1980-1982
Bill Hamilton 1980-1983
Damaris Rose 1981-1982
Joanna Regulska 1982-2015
Ben Wisner 1983-1985
Susan Macey 1983-1988
Ernestine K. Cary 1985-1986
Frederick Nelson 1986-1994
Neil Smith 1986-2000
David Robinson 1988-
Dona Schneider 1990-2022
Ramsamay, Ed. 1991-
Richard Schroeder 1993-2018
Kirstin Dow 1995-1996
Elvin Wyly 1995-2002
Sean DiGiovanna 1996-?
Robin Leichenko 1997-
Roger Balm 1997-2012
Michael Medler 1998-2001
Michelle Goman 1998-2001
Marjorie Clarke 1999-2000
Kevin St Martin 2001-
Laura Schneider 2005-
Jasbir K. Puar 2007-2010
Trevor Birkenholtz 2007-2013
James DeFilippis 2007-
Asa Rennermalm 2009-
Mazen Labban 2010-
Usha Eleswarapu 2010-
Tania del Mar Lopez Marrero 2011-2015
Asher Ghertner 2012-
Nate Gabriel 2014-16, 2018-
Paul O’Keefe 2016-
Carrie Mott 2016-2018
Kevon Rhiney 2017-
Willie Wright 2019-2021
Andrea Marston 2019-
Daniel Barone 2020-
Priscilla Ferreira 2021-
Jesse G. Rodenbiker 2022-
JT Roane 2022-
Teona Williams 2024-