Biography

Daniel D. Arreola received the Ph. D. in Cultural Geography from the University of California
at Los Angeles. He was born and
raised in Los Angeles, California, and he has lived and taught in three
of the four American states that line the U.S.-Mexico border. He has published extensively in scholarly journals
and in book chapters on topics relating to the cultural geography of the
Mexican-American borderlands. He
is the author of The Mexican Border Cities: Landscape Anatomy and Place
Personality (University of Arizona Press, 1993), Tejano South Texas:
A Mexican American Cultural Province (University of Texas Press, 2002)
and Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: A Geography of Regional and Cultural
Diversity (forthcoming, University of Texas Press). He is also a Senior
Consultant for World Geography, a new high school textbook (McDougal
Littell, 2003).
Arreola serves on the
editorial boards for several leading geography journals, an international
cross-cultural architecture journal, and he is a contributing editor to the
Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. He is a past-president of the
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Presently, he is a Professor in the
Department of Geography and an Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Latin
American Studies at Arizona State University.