
KEVIN ARCHER
Associate
Professor and Chair
Geography
Department
SOC 107
(813)
974-4843 (813) 974-4808 (FAX)
karcher2@chuma1.cas.usf.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D., 1990 Geography and Environmental Engineering (Urban/Regional
Studies)
The
M.A., 1983 Geography (Urban/Regional Development Studies)
B.A., 1981 Economics, Great Distinction/University
Scholar
(Economic Development Studies),
ACADEMIC AND
RESEARCH RECOGNITION
1986-1987 Fulbright Scholarship,
Universiteit
van Leuven).
1983-1987 Ph.D. Fellowship, The
1982-1983 Max Bell Foundation Fellowship for Canadian
Studies,
(Tuition and
Stipend).
1982 Canadian Department of Indian and
Northern Affairs: Northern Studies
Fellowship,
1978-1981 James McGill Award for Academic
Achievement; Friends
of McGill Scholarship; Designated
and Sciences Faculty Scholar.
UNIVERSITY
TEACHING RECOGNITION
1998-1999 Florida University System-Wide (SUS)
Teaching Award (TIP).
1994-1995 Florida University System-Wide (SUS) Teaching
Award (TIP).
1993-1994 Outstanding
Undergraduate Teaching Award,
PROFESSIONAL
AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Aug.
2001- -Chair, Department of
Geography,
Present
-Administrative and fiscal responsibility
for a Master’s level department of 13 full-time faculty.
Jan. 2000 -Associate Program Director of
Interdisciplinary Studies: Bachelor of Independent Studies
Aug. 2001
-Program Coordination for this State
University System degree program.
Aug.
1996- -Associate
Professor,
Department of Geography,
Present
-Research
and Teaching Interests: Political, Urban, Economic,Theory,
North and
Aug. 1991- -Assistant
Professor, Department of Geography,
1996
-Courses Taught:
Graduate
PAD 6934 Neighborhood Policy (Public
Administration)
GEO 6428 Seminar in Social Theory and
Geography
GEA 6195 Seminar in Regional Geography:
North and
GEO 5605 Contemporary Urban Issues
GEO 5475 Advanced Political Geography
GEO 5058 Geographic Literature and
History
Undergraduate
IDS 4930 Cultures in Conflict (Learning
Community Exit Course; Interdisciplinary Social Science Program) (Co-Created
Course; University Approval)
GEO 4604 Advanced Urban Geography
(Created Course; Department and University Approval)
GEO 4470 Political Geography
GEO 3602 Urban Geography (Core Course:
Urban Studies)
GEO 3402 Human Geography (Core Course:
Geography)
EVR 2861 Introduction to Environmental
Policy (Environmental Science and Policy Program)
GEO 2005 Global Geography (Core Course:
Geography)
IDS 2931,1 Modern
Journey to a Global Society (Learning Community 1) (Created Course;
University Approval)
IDS 2931,2 Western
Society and Culture (Learning Community 4) (Created Course; University
Approval)
ISS 1101,1
Knowledge and Society, (Proposed General Education Core Course; Social Science
GEO 1930 Geography of Current Events
(U.S.F. General Education Option)
Jan. 1988- Economic
Projects Coordinator,
July
1991
- Primary responsibility for coordinating
Center projects concerned with Canada-U.S. economic relations and policy as
well as other institutional and administrative responsibilities.
July
1989- Senior Post-Doctoral Research
Associate,
July 1991
-Various duties involved in the start-up
and continuing program of this Center established to coordinate faculty
research related to public policy development, implementation, and evaluation.
Associate Editor, Canadian-American
Public Policy:
Paper Series in U.S.-Canadian Relations
(General Editors: Peter Morici and Robert Babcock).
Adjunct Faculty,
PA
580 Urban and Regional Planning (Public Administration)
GEO 201 Introduction to Human Geography
GEO 210 Geography of
GEO 215 Cultural Geography
Sept.
1986- Research Associate, Institute
for Urban and Regional Planning (IISRO)
Aug.
1987 Katholieke Universiteit van
-Primary research concerning the
interrelationship between recent urban and regional economic restructuring and
regionalist politics in
July
1986- Consultant, The
Sept.
1986 the Nord-Pas
de Calais,
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed:
journal (*)
editorial board (**)
Chapters in Books, Monographs:
**
2001, “Through the Glass Darkly: Recollecting my Academic Life”
in P. Moss, ed., Geography and Autobiography: History, Method,
**1999,
“
**
1997a “Megalopolis in the Making: Urbanizing Central Florida’s I-4 Corridor”
in R. Oldakowski, L. Molina, B. Purdum, eds., Growth, Technology, Planning, and Geographic
Education in Central Florida: Images and Encounters National Council for
Geographic Education: Orlando.; Chapter 1; 1-13.
**
1996a, “Dans l’ombre de
Mickey: Les strategies de redeveloppement de
**
1996b, “Packaging the Place: Development Strategies in
**
1993a, (with Peter Morici), “State Export
Promotion Policies” in D.M. Brown, E.H. Fry, eds., States and Provinces
in the International Economy,
**
1992, (with John Bradbury +), “Schefferville:
The Crisis in the Quebec-Labrador Iron Mining Region” in C. Neil, M. Tykkylainen, J. Bradbury, eds., Mine Closure:
Comparative Experiences Routledge:
**
1990, The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Potential Effects on Major
Sectors of the Maine Economy, State of Maine Department of Economic and
Community Development:
**
1986a, “State Policies and the Development of High Technology Activities:
The
**
1986b, (with Erik Swyngedouw), “Les lecons de l’experience Americaine” in J. Federwisch,
H. G. Zoller, eds., Technologie
nouvelle et ruptures regionales
Economica:
**
1985, The State and the National Question in Quebec in the Context of
Canadian Federalism, Working Paper No. 10,
**
1984, The Internationalization of the Iron and Steel Industry: The Sectoral-Spatial Intersection,
Working Paper No. 4,
**
1983, “The Dynamics of Economic Growth and Decline in the Quebec-Labrador
Resource-Based Region” in J. Bradbury, J.M. Wolfe, eds., Recession,
Planning and Socio-Economic Change in the Quebec-Labrador Iron-Mining Region
McGill University Subarctic Research Paper No. 38: Schefferville; 19-40.
+
In Memorium
Articles in Refereed Professional Journals:
*
1997b,
“Alien Invaders: Envisioning Exotic Species in
**
1997c,
(with Graham Tobin) “SEDAAG Maps: A Swift and New Perspective On Geographic Growth?” Southeastern Geographer,
37; 106-108.
* 1997d, “The
Limits to the
* 1996c, “A Lighter
Shade of Green: Reproducing Nature in
* 1995, “A
Folk Guide to Geography as a Holistic Science” Journal
of Geography, 94; 404-411.
* 1993b, “Regions as Social Organisms: The
Lamarckian Characteristics of Vidal de la Blache's
Regional Geography” Annals of the Association of American Geographers,
83; 498-514.
* 1987, “Mythology
and the problem of reading in urban and regional research” Environment
and Planning D: Society and Space, 5; 384-393.
Invited Reviews:
2001,
Review of R. Foglesong, Married to the Mouse: Walt
Disney World and Orlando in Professional Geographer, Forthcoming.
2000,
Review of P. Wolf, Hot Towns: The
Future of the Fastest Growing Communities in
1998a,
Review of A. Merrifield, E. Swyngedouw, eds., The
Urbanization of Injustice in European Planning Review 6;
468-470.
1998b,
Review of J. Short, The Urban
Order: An Introduction to Cities, Culture, and Power in European
Planning Review 6; 237-238.
1997,
Review of R.V. Francaviglia,
1997,
Review of S. Pile, N. Thrift, eds., mapping the subject: geographies of
cultural transformation in Journal of Geography 96: 42-44.
1996,
Review of M. Gottdiener, Postmodern Semiotics:
Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life in European
Planning Studies 4: 636-637.
1995,
Review of J. Wolfe, M. Dear, Malign Neglect: Homelessness in an
PAPERS,
LECTURES
2000,
“
1999,
“Celebrating Urban Separatism: Disney’s
1998a,
“
1998b,
“Dis(ney)placed
Urbanism: Orlando, the Capital of the 21st Century” presented at the
Association of American Geographers, 94th Annual Meeting, Boston,
Massachusetts, 25-29 March.
1998c,
“Imagineering Nature: The Post-Industrial
Political Ecology of Florida” invited paper presented at the Royal
Geographic Society-Institutes of British Geographers Annual Meeting, University
of Surrey, 5-8 January.
1997a
, “Replacing Nature, Parking People: Disney’s Wilderness Lodge”
presented at the Association of American Geographers, Southeastern Division,
Golden Anniversary Meeting, Birmingham, Alabama, 22-25 November. (Also served as a paper discussant at the
same meeting)
1997b,
“Teaching to Resist: Decolonizing the Geography
Classroom” presented at the Inaugural International Conference in Critical
Geography, Vancouver B.C., 9-13 August.
1997c,
(Lecture) “The New Urban Future?: Disney’s
‘Celebration’ of Urban Separatism” invited public lecture,
1997d,
“A Prototype Community of Tomorrow?: Disney’s Celebration City” presented
at the Association of American Geographers, 93rd Annual Meeting, Ft. Worth,
Texas 1-5 April. (Chair of session)
1996a,
“Alien Invaders: Envisioning Exotic Species in Florida” presented at the
Association of American Geographers, Southeastern Division, 51st Annual
Meeting, Athens, Georgia 24-26 November.
1996b,
“Re-presenting and Re-constructing Community: Disney's Celebration City”
invited paper presented at the Association of American Geographers, 92nd Annual
Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina 10-13 April.
1996c,
“A Lighter Shade of Green: Reproducing Nature in Central Florida”
presented at the Florida Society of Geographers, 31st Annual Meeting,
Tallahassee, Florida 26-27 January.
1995a,
“Global New Town and Local Innercity: Displacing
1995b,
“The Gentrification of Nature: Imagineering
Post-Industrial Biogeographies” invited paper
presented at the Human Geography Symposium in Honor of M.G. Wolman,
The Johns Hopkins University, 4 June.
1995c,
“The Disney Difference: Imagineering the
Post-Industrial New Town of Orlando” presented at the Association of
American Geographers, 91th Annual Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois 14-18th March. (Also co-organizer and Chair of special sessions on
post-industrial urban landscapes).
1994a,
“Urban Redevelopment and the Politics of Difference in
1994b,
(Lecture) “The Political Implications of NAFTA for
1994c,
“Packaging the Place: Development Strategies in Tampa and Orlando, Florida”
presented at Centre Nationale
de la Recherche Scientifique,
International Conference, "Cities, Enterprises and Society at the Eve of
the XXIst Century", Lille,
France 16-18 March.
1994d,
“Antiessentialism, Feminism, and the Politics of
Theory in Economic Geography” unpublished manuscript, Department of
Geography,
1993a,
(Lecture) “The Potential Effects of NAFTA on Service Sector
Activities in
1993b,
“The Political Implications of Freer Trade in Producer Services” presented
at the International Studies Association/South Annual Meeting, Maxwell AFB,
1993c,
“The Politicization of Theory in Economic Geography” invited paper
presented at the Plenary Session of the Industrial Geography Specialty Group,
Association of American Geographers, 89th Annual Meeting,
1992a,
“The Difficult Transition to Post-Scientism in Human Geography”
unpublished manuscript, Department of Geography,
1992b,
“Post-Fordism and the Emerging Geopolitics of
Place” presented at the International Studies Association-South Annual
Meeting,
1989,
“Canadian Studies and Free Trade: The Beginning of the End?” presented
at the Tenth Biennial Meeting of The Association for Canadian Studies in the
United States, San Francisco, 17-20 November.
1988a,
(with Curtis Ventriss), “Planning Theory
Revisited: A Critical Perspective” invited paper presented at the Regional
Science Association's Thirty-Fifth North American Meetings, Toronto, Ontario,
11-13 November.
1988b, “The Reproduction of Uneven
Development and the National Question in
THESES
1989,
The Theory and Practice of Regional Geography: A Comparison of Vidalian
and Marxian Perspectives, Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of
Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; 340 pages.
(David Harvey, principal advisor)
1983,
Theory and Reality in the Economic Decline of the Quebec-Labrador
Resource-Based Region, Unpublished Masters Thesis, Department of
Geography, McGill University; 129 pages. (The late John H. Bradbury,
principal advisor)
GRANTS AND
FUNDED RESEARCH
(with Steven Reader) “Post-Industrial
Metropolitan Development: Socio-Spatial Trends in
$6,169: USF Research and Creative
Scholarship Program, 1999.
(P.I.) “Geography Collection Enhancement Funds” $2,500 (Monographs and
Multimedia) as well as five (5) new Geography journal subscriptions, 1999.
(P.I.) “Faculty
International Travel Award” $925: USF Research and Creative Scholarship
Program, March, 1999..
(P.I.) “Faculty
International Travel Award” $1,400: USF Research and Creative Scholarship Program,
November, 1997.
(P.I.) “Geography
Collection Enhancement Funds” $8,000: USF Fogler
Library;
November, 1996.
(P.I.) “Economic
Restructuring in the Tampa-St.
(with Mark Lindberg) “Duval
County Boating Activity Study” $30,000: Florida Department of Natural Resources
Contract #C-8140; June, 1993. (Policy Analysis; Co-Author,
Technical Report)
(with Steven Ballard) "Institute
for the Study of Regulation and the Environment" $250,000 over a three
year period 1990-93: Central Maine Power; November, 1990. (Program
Development/Research)
(with Victor Konrad) "Canadian Studies Leadership
Institute" $10,000: External Affairs,
(with James Wilson) "
(with Victor Konrad) "Business, Economics and Public
Policy in Canadian-American Relations" $142,545 over three-year period
1988-91: Business Fund for Canadian Studies in the
(with Victor Konrad) "Canadian-American Economic
Relations: New Directions in Canadian Studies at the
(P.I.) "The
Potential for
(P.I.) "Travel
Grant to
SERVICE
ACTIVITIES
UNIVERSITY
1999-2000. Coordinator,
Program for
1998-2000. Member, Enrollment Planning Steering Committee,
Provost’s Office.
1998-Continuing. Chair/Member, University
Faculty Senate Subcommittee on the Bachelor of Independent Studies Program.
1998-2000
. Member, University
Faculty Senate (Elected).
1996-1999. Chair, University Faculty Senate
Committee on Faculty Evaluation and Standards.
1996-1998. Member, Faculty Workgroup on the
Importance of Teaching, Provost’s Office.
1995-Continuing. Member, Commencement
Marshal Committee.
1996-1997 Chair, University Faculty
Senate Committee on Senate By-Laws.
1994-1997 Member, University Faculty
Senate (Elected).
1994-1997 Member, University Faculty
Senate Committee on the Bachelor of Independent Studies Program.
1994-1997 Member, University Faculty Senate
Committee on Senate By-Laws.
1994-1995 Member, University Faculty
Senate Committee on Committees.
1992-1993 Member, University of South
Florida Women’s Awareness Month Committee, University-wide.
COLLEGE:
2000-2001. Member, Dean’s Advisory
Committee on the First Year Undergraduate Experience.
1997-1999. Member,
Chair, Social Sciences Subcommittee--1998.
Member, Subcomittee for the
1997-1999. Member, Western European
Studies Certificate Committee.
1994-1999. Founding Member, College of
Arts and Sciences Undergraduate "Learning Communities" Initiative.
1997-1998. Chair, Faculty Search
Committee, Assistant Professor Line, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences.
1992-Continuing. Member,
1992-Continuing. Member, College of Arts
and Sciences Interdisciplinary Liberal Studies Advisor Committee.
DEPARTMENT:
1999-2000.
Department Director of Graduate Studies.
1999-2000 Chair, Faculty Search Committee,
Urban Geography Line.
1997-Continuing. Chair/Member, Department
of Geography Tenure and Promotion Committee.
1997-Continuing. Chair/Member, Department
of Geography Faculty Evaluation Committee.
1995-2000. Member, Department of Geography
Graduate Committee.
1995-2001. Department of Geography Library
Representative.
1997-1998. Member, Faculty Search Committee, Environmental
Geography Assistant Professor Line.
1997-1998. Chair, Faculty
Search Committee, Meteorology/Climatology
Assistant Professor Line.
1996-1997. Chair, Faculty
Search Committee, GIS/Cartography Assistant Professor Line.
1995-1996. Member, Faculty
Search Committee, Human Geography Assistant Professor Line,
1993-1995.
Co-Chair, Graduate Affairs Committee (with Joseph Garcia),
Geography Department.
1993-1994. Member, Faculty Search Committee,
Human Geography Assistant Professor Line.
1991-1993. Co-Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum
Committee (with Robert Brinkmann); Developed
report "Taking the USF Geography Department into the 21st
Century" proposing a complete restructuring of the Geography curriculum to
emphasize urban, environmental, and technical/GIS degree options; now
implemented.
Proposal
accepted and participation approved for the first full-time General
Education Course Design Workshop organized by the Center for Teaching
Enhancement and the General Education Council,
PROFESSIONAL:
2000-Present Member, Scientific Ethics Committee,
Association of American Geographers
2000
Nominated for the Advisory Board of the
1998-Continuing. Member,
Editorial Board, Journal of Geography.
1998
Nominated for Advisory Board of the
1997-Continuing. Member, Executive
Board of the
In
addition to organizing and chairing sessions at meetings (see PAPERS,
LECTURES), I am an active member of the following professional
groups:
Association
of American Geographers (AAG)
Southeastern
Division of the Association of American Geographers
AAG
Urban Geography Specialty Group
I
have reviewed scholarly manuscripts for:
Environment and Planning A
Journal of Geography
Ecumene
Professional Geographer
Southeastern Geographer
Prentice-Hall,
Higher Education Group
Addison,
Wesley, Longman, Higher Education Division
Teaching Improvement Workshops Attended:
“Faculty
International Development Workshop:
“Involving
Students: Using Active Learning Strategies in University Classes”,
“Creating
a Teaching Portfolio”,
“General
Education Course Design Workshop”,
Lived Geographical Experience: 1991-Present
1987-91 Bangor/Orono,
1986-87
1984-85, Summer 1986
1983-84, 1985-86
1978-83 Montréal,
Québec
1976-77, Spring 1978
1975-76
1958-75
Other Formal Courses:
Université de Paris, Sorbonne--"Cours de
Langue et de Civilisation" (Diploma),
in
Paris, University of
Language Proficiency:
French - Fluent; Spanish - Reading
ABBREVIATED LIST OF REFERENCES
Dr.
Graham Tobin
Professor
Department
of Geography
(813)
974-4932
(813)
974-4808 FAX
Dr.
Mark Amen
Associate
Dean, Associate Professor
International
Studies
College
of Arts and Sciences
(813)
974-6912
(813)
974-4075 FAX
Dr.
Erik Swyngedouw
Reader
Fellow,
St. Peter’s College
(44865)
278878
Dr.
Robert Brinkmann
Associate
Professor
Department
of Geography
Interim
Chair, Department of Environmental Science and Policy
(813)
974-4883
(813)
974-4808 FAX
Other references available on request.