MALCOLM
L. COMEAUX
ACADEMIC
TRAINING
Ph.D. 1969
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Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Dissertation: Settlement and Folk Occupations of the Atchafalaya
Basin.
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M.A. 1966
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Southern Illinois
University, Carbondale, Illinois
Thesis: Impact of Transportation Activities Upon the Historical
Development of Cairo, Illinois
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B.A. 1963
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University of Southwestern
Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana
(now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
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AREAS OF
SPECIALIZATION
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Culture Diffusion
and Culture Change
Historical Geography
Geography of Europe
History of Geographic Thought
Geography of Arizona and the Southwest
The French of Louisiana
Geographic Education
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POSITIONS
HELD
August
15, 2001
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Retired
from Arizona State University
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Summer
1996, 1997
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Visiting
Professor of Geography, Univ. of New Orleans-Univ. of Innsbruck International
Summer School
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1993
- 2001
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Co-coordinator,
Arizona Geographic Alliance
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1984 – present
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Professor,
ASU, Tempe, AZ
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1975
- 1984
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Associate
Professor, ASU, Tempe, AZ
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Summer
1984
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Visiting
Professor, University of South-western Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana
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1969 – 1975
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Assistant
Professor, ASU, Tempe, AZ
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1965 – 1966
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Instructor,
University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana
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TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Summer
1996, 97
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Visiting
Professor, Univ. of New Orleans- Innsbruck International Summer School,
Innsbruck, Austria
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1984
- 2001
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Professor,
ASU, Tempe, AZ
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1975
- 1984
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Associate
Professor, ASU, Tempe, AZ
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1969
- 1975
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Assistant
Professor, ASU, Tempe, AZ
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1966
- 1968
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Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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1965
- 1966
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Instructor,
University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana
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1963
- 1965
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Graduate
Teaching Assistant, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois
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GRANTS
AND AWARDS
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Distinguished Mentor Award, 2006. Awarded by the National Council for Geographic Education. |
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Malcolm
Comeaux Lecture Series established through an endowment in the Geography
Department, at A. S. U.
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Association
of American Geographers, Distinguished Teaching Honors, 2002.
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Arizona
Geographic Alliance, 2001-02, State of Arizona. $100,000 (with Ron
Dorn).
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Arizona
State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished
Teaching Award for Faculty, 2001.
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Wilbur
Murra Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Social Studies. Awarded
by the Arizona Council for the Social Studies, 1999.
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Presidential
Citation for Distinguished Service, 1998. Awarded by Gamma Theta Upsilon,
Geographical Honor Society.
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Arizona
Geographic Alliance, 1997-2000, State of Arizona. $150,000 (with Robert
Mings and Ron Dorn).
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Distinguished
Teaching Achievement Award, 1997. Awarded by the National Council for
Geographic Education.
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Arizona
Geographic Alliance, 1997-2000, National Geographic Society. $150,000
(with Robert Mings).
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Arizona
Geographic Alliance, 1993-1996, National Geographic Society. $150,000
(with Robert Mings).
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Arizona
Geographic Alliance, 1994-2001, State of Arizona. $450,000 (with Robert
Mings and Ron Dorn).
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Planning
Grant, Arizona Geographic Alliance, 1992, National Geographic Society.
$10,000 (with Robert Mings).
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Faculty
Research Grant, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, ASU, 1989. $500.
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International
Travel Grant, 1984, National Academy of Science, National Research
Council. $900.
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Faculty
Research Grant, Arizona State University, 1971. $2,175.
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Dissertation
Year Fellowship, Louisiana State University, 1968-69.
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National
Science Foundation Summer Fellowship, 1967.
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Couch
Travel Service Award. 1963.
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MEMBERSHIP
AND POSITIONS IN SCIENTIFIC AND HONORARY SOCIETIES
Program
Committee, Association of American Geographers, 1977
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Regional
Coordinator, Pacific States, Gamma Theta Upsilon, 1975, 1976
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Association
of American Geographers
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American
Geographical Society
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Association
of Pacific Coast Geographers
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National
Council for Geographic Education
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Southwest
Social Science Association
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Louisiana
Folklore Society
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Pioneer
America Society
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Arizona-Nevada
Academy of Science, fellow Southwest Professional Geographical Association
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Chairman,
Geography Section, Arizona Academy of Science, 1970-1971, 1985-1986
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Chairman,
Local Arrangements Committee, Association of American Geographers,
1988
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Gamma
Theta Upsilon, Geographical Honor Society
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Phi
Alpha Theta, History Honor Society
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Pi
Gamma Mu, Social Studies Honor Society
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COMMUNITY
AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE
1995
to 1998
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Editorial
Board, The Geographical Bulletin
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1991
to 2003
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Organized
and ran the Friends For Geography, a support group for the department
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1970
to 2001
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Faculty
Advisor, Gamma Theta Upsilon, International Geographical Honor Society
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Chairman,
and served on many departmental committee, such as Graduate, Budget,
Graduate Program Coordinating, M.A. Program, Ph.D. Program, Departmental
Travel, Executive, personnel and others. Served
on several College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and University committees. Presented
many talks to various local civics groups, clubs, and museums.
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OTHER
EXPERIENCE
2004
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Consultant,
Audubon Park Zoo, New Orleans, LA
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1990 –1999
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Regional
Coordinator for the Pacific Coast Region for Gamma Theta Upsilon (international
geographic honorary fraternity).
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1988
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Local
Arrangements Committee Chairman for the national meeting of the Association
of American Geographers, Phoenix, AZ. Consultant, Illinois State Museum.
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1982 – 1984
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Consultant,
Audubon Park Zoo, New Orleans, LA.
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1979
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Consultant,
National Geographic Society.
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Summer – 1978
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Consultant,
Lafayette National History Museum and Planetarium, Lafayette, LA.
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Summer – 1964
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Assistant
City Planner, City of Rock Island, Illinois.
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1957 – 1960
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Active
duty, U.S. Army, stationed in Boscomantico, Italy.
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PUBLICATIONS
2017 |
On the Use of Foreign Words. Louisiana History. 58: 93-97. |
2015 |
Coonass: Diffusion and Probable Origin. Louisiana History. 56: 199-219. |
2011 |
"Caniques”: Marbles and Marble Games as Played in South Louisiana at Mid-Twentieth Century. Louisiana History. 52: 324-56. |
2010 |
Photojournal: The Cajun Mardi Gras in Southwest Louisiana. FOCUS on Geography. 53: 14-23. |
2009 |
Steal the Flag: A Game Played in South Louisiana. Louisiana Folklore Miscellany. 19: 53-70. |
2007 |
Introduction and Use of Accordions in Cajun Music, and The Cajun Dance Hall, reprinted in Fiddles, Accordions, Two Step and Swing, Ryan Brasseaux and Kevin Fontenot, eds., Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA. pp. 107-114, & pp.139-151. |
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Internet: The History of Geography at Arizona State University (to 2005). . ASU, School of Geographical Sciences. |
2006
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Atchafalaya Basin Swamp. The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 8, Environment. Martin Melosi, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, pp. 188-89. |
2005 |
What
Games Can Say: Two Medieval Games from French Louisiana. Louisiana
History. 46:47-63. |
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Learning Geography Promotes Learning Math: Results and Implications of Arizona's GeoMath Grade K-8 Program. Journal of Geography. 104:151-159. (With Ron Dorn, et.al.). |
2004 |
In Memoriam: John F. Lounsbury. Journal of Geography. 103:92. |
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Fishing the Father of Waters, in Grand Excursion on the Upper Mississippi River, Curtis C. Roseman and Elizabeth M. Roseman, eds., University of Iowa, Iowa City, iowa. pp. 173-186. |
2000 |
The
Cajun Dance Hall. Material Culture. 32:37-56. |
1999 |
Introduction
and Use of Accordions in Cajun Music.Louisiana Folklore Miscellany.
14:27-40. |
1998 |
Arizona,
in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World (3 vols). Saul B. Cohen,
ed., Columbia University Press, New York, various pages. |
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The
Geographic Society and Gamma Theta Upsilon at Arizona State University. Geographical
Bulletin. 40:31-34. |
1997 |
Post,
Lauren Chester, in A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Vol.
II, Glenn R. Conrad, ed., Louisiana Historical Association and the
Center for Louisiana Studies. University of Southwestern Louisiana,
Lafayette, Louisiana. pp.659-60. |
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The
Cajun Accordion, in Baseball, Barns & Bluegrass: A Geography
of American Folklife, George Carney, ed., Rowam and Littlefield,
Lanham, Maryland. pp. 131-138. (A modified reprint from 1978) |
1996 |
The
Acadians of Canada and the Cajuns of Louisiana: Cultural Change over
Distance and Time, in Ethnic Persistence and Change in Europe and
America: Traces in Landscape and Society. Klaus Frantz and Robert
A. Sauder, eds. The University of Innsbruck. pp. 29-45. |
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Die
Cajuns in Louisiana. Geographische Rundschau. 48:234-39. |
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Cajuns
and their Adaptation to a Modern World, in Human Geography in North
America: New Perspectives and Trends in Research. Klaus Frantz,
ed. Innsbrucker Geographische Studien. 26:7-16. |
1994 |
Fred
Kniffen's Contributions to Understanding French Louisiana. Journal
of Cultural Geography. 15:59- 66. |
1992 |
Cajuns
in Louisiana, in To Build in a New Land: Ethnic Landscapes in North
America, Allen G. Noble, ed. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore,
pp. 177-92. |
1991 |
Creating
Indian Lands: the Boundary of the Salt River Indian Community. Journal
of Historical Geography. 17:241-56. Reprinted in: The Arizona
Surveyor, September, 1966 Newsletter, pp. 13-18, 21-24 |
1990 |
Post,
Lauren Chester, in A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, Glenn
Conrad, ed. The Louisiana Historical Association in cooperation with
the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana,
Lafayette, LA, pp. 659-60. |
1989 |
Use
of Hoop Nets in the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Cultural
Geography. 10:75-87. |
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Burial: "Going Home." Encyclopedia
of Death. R. Kastenbaum and B. Kastenbaum, eds., Oryx Press,
Phoenix, AZ., pp.36-37. |
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Hook-and-Line Fishing in the Mississippi
River System. Material Culture. 21:23-45. |
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The
Cajun Barn. Geographical Review. 79:47-62. |
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Atchafalaya Basin Swamp. Encyclopedia
of Southern Culture. C.R. Wilson and W. Ferris, eds.,
Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, pp. 375-76. |
1988 |
Death
Out of State: Arizonans Who Die Elsewhere. Omega: The Journal of
Death and Dying. l9:ll5-24. |
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101
Years of Geography at Arizona State University. ASU, Department of Geography Publications
Series No. 2 (63 pages). |
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Physical
Landscapes in Arizona (22-23), Copper Mining Towns (60-61), and Establishment
of the Salt River Indian Reservation (87), in Metro Arizona,
Charles Sargent, ed., Scottsdale, AZ., Biffington Press. |
1987 |
A
Final Journey: Post-Death Removal of Human Remains. Tijdschrift
voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 78:114-24 (with Graham Rowles). |
1986 |
Returning
Home: The Interstate Transportation of Human Remains. Omega: The
Journal of Death and Dying. l7: l03-l3 (with Graham Rowles). |
1985 |
Folk
Boats of Louisiana. Louisiana Folklife: A Guide to the State.
Nicholas R. Spitzer, Ed., Louisiana Folklife
Program, Division of the Arts, Baton Rouge. pp. 160-78. |
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The
Tortilla Industry in Arizona. North American Culture.
2:15-23. |
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Louisiana
Folk Boats. Festival of American Folklife, 1985. Thomas
Vennum, Jr., Ed. Smithsonian Institution, National Park Service, Washington,
D.C. pp. 22-25. |
1983 |
Selection
of the Arizona-Utah Boundary. Journal of Arizona History. 24:237-54. |
1982 |
Attempts
to Establish and Change a Western Boundary. Annals, Association
of American Geographers. 72:254-71. |
1981 |
Arizona:
A Geography.
Westview Press (336 pages). |
1979 |
Jonas
Wenger Hoover, 1889-1979. The Geographical Bulletin. 18:6-11. |
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The
Spanish Moss Folk Industry of Louisiana. Melanges No. 12 (19
pages) (with Fred B. Kniffen). |
1978 |
Louisiana's Acadians: The Environmental Impact,
in The Cajuns: Essays on
Their History and Culture, Glenn R. Conrad, Ed. Center for Louisiana
Studies, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, Louisiana.
2nd ed., 1978, pp. 142-60; 3rd ed., l983, pp. 109-26. |
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The
Cajun Accordion. Revue de Louisiane/Louisiana Review.
7:117-28. |
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The
Crawfish Industry of California and the Northwest. The California
Geographer. 18:121-35. |
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Origin
and Evolution of Mississippi River Fishing Craft. Pioneer America.
10:72-97 |
1977 |
Les
Acadiens Louisianais: l'impact de l'environnement. Revue de Louisane/Louisiana
Review. 6:163-78. A revision of this article was republished in
1978 in Etudes Normandes. 1-2:23-37. |
1976 |
In
Memoriam: Lauren Chester Post. Louisiana History Newsletter.
2(2):1-2. |
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Lauren
Chester Post. The California Geographer. 16:85-88. |
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An
Early View of the Atchafalaya: The Lt. Enoch Humphrey Expedition of
1805. Attakapas Gazette. 11:152-63. |
1975 |
Historical Development of the Crawfish Industry
in the United States, in Freshwater Crawfish, James W. Avault,
Jr., Ed. Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, pp. 609-19. |
1972 |
Atchafalaya
Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations. School of Geoscience, Louisiana State
University, Baton Rouge, (111 pages). |
1970 |
The
Atchafalaya River Raft. Louisiana Studies. 9:217- 27. |
BOOK
REVIEWS
2014
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Bayou Pigeon: Spirit of the Atchafalaya, by Cliff LaGrange, et al., Louisiana History 55: 483-85. |
2009
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Inherit the Atchafalaya, by Greg Guirard and C. Ray Brassieur. Louisiana History 50: 477-78. |
2006
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Appalachian Folkways, by John Rehder. Material Culture. 38: 72-74. |
2001
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Delta
Sugar: Louisiana’s Vanishing Plantation Landscape, by John B. Rehder. Historical
Geography. 29:168-69.
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1998
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Flatheads
and Spooneys: Fishing for a Living in the Ohio River Valley, by Jens Lund. Material Culture.
30:52-54.
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Gila
Monsters and Red-Eyed Rattlesnakes: Don Maguire’s Arizona Trading
Expeditions, 1876-1879, Gary Topping (ed). Annals, Association of American Geographers,
88:754-55.
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1997
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Documenting
Cultural Diversity in the Resurgent American South, Margaret R. Dittemore and Fred
J. Hay (eds). Louisiana History. 40:239-41.
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1996
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A
Place Called Grand Canyon: Contested Geographies, by Barbara J. Morehouse. Journal
of Cultural Geography. 16:125-26.
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Historical Atlas of Louisiana, by
Charles R. Goins and John M. Caldwell. Louisiana History. 37:373-74.
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1995
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The
Old Barn: A Field Guide to North American Barns and Other Farm
Structures, by Allen G. Noble and Richard
K. Cleek. Journal of Cultural Geography. 15:131-32.
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1994
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French
America: Mobility, Identity, and Minority Experience Across the
Continent, by Dean Louder and Eric Waddell
(eds.). Annals, Association of American Geographers. 84:326-27.
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1992
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A
Legacy of Change: Historic Human Impact on Vegetation in the Arizona
Borderlands,
by Conrad J. Bahre. Journal of Historical Geography. 18:355-56.
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1991
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Western
Images, Western Landscapes: Travels along U.S. 89, Thomas and Geraldine Vale. Annals, Association
of American Geographers. 81:548-49.
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1989
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Louisiana:
A Geographical Portrait, by Milton Newton, Jr. Professional Geographer. 41:248.
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l988
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The
Mapping of the American Southwest, by Dennis Reinharts and Charles C. Colley (eds). Journal
of Historical Geography. l4:323-24.
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1983
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The
Georgia-South Carolina Boundary: A Problem in Historical Geography, by Louis De Vorsey, Jr. Geographical
Review. 73:463-64.
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1982
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My
Acadians: A Grand Lady's Love Affair with her French-Acadian Heritage, by Lorecia Daigle East. Louisiana
History. 23:94.
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1978
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A
Southern Odyssey Travelers in the Antebellum North, by John Franklin. Journal of
Historical Geography. 4:216.
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New
Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape, by Pierce Lewis. Louisiana History. 19:364-66
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1975
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Cajun
Sketches: From the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana, by Lauren Post. Revue de Louisiane/ Louisiana
Review. 4:87-88.
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