Joseph S. Wood
Professor of Geography
Email: jswood@usm.maine.edu
Biographical Sketch
Joe is a cultural geographer interested in how people make places and landscapes. He has taught at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and George Mason University in Northern Virginia, where he was also Vice Provost for Academic Affairs. He has been a visiting professor at South China Normal University in Guangzhou, China, and in 2001, he lectured on an educational tour in Cambodia and Vietnam.
Education
Pennsylvania State University, Geography, 1978, Ph.D.
University of Vermont, Geography, 1974, M.A.
Middlebury College, Geography, 1968, B.A.
Courses Taught at USM
GEO 101J: Human Geography
GEO 499: The American Cultural Landscape
COR 162I: Diversity and
Globalization
Research Interests
"My research has focused on the making of the American landscape, with emphases on New England village morphology and its iconography, or how understanding of the village became an invented scholarly tradition; the idea of the West and development of the National Road; and the idea of ethnic landscape, especially with reference to American suburbs. I have a secondary interest in East Asia and Southeast Asian landscapes."
Selected Publications
Joseph S. Wood. (Under review). Making America in Eden Center [A Vietnamese Shopping Center] (For Wei Li, Ed., Urban Asian Immigrant Communities: From Enclave to Ethnoburb.
Joseph S. Wood. 2001. Return to Vietnam. Focus. 46.3:8-12.
Joseph S. Wood. 1997. Vietnamese American Place Making in Northern Virginia. Geographical Review, 87:58-72.
Joseph S. Wood [with a contribution by M. Steinitz]. 1997. The New England Village. Johns Hopkins University Press, Paperback Ed. 2002.
Joseph S. Wood. 1997. [with Patricia Gober, et al.] Employment Conditions in Geography [originally published in the Professional Geographer, 1995]. Reprinted in Rediscovering Geography: New Relevance for Science and Society, pp. 187-217. National Academy Press.
Joseph S. Wood. 1996. The Idea of a National Road. In The National Road: Guide to an American Experience, pp. 93-122. Ed. by Karl Raitz. Johns Hopkins University Press. [Antoinette Forrester Downing Award for best survey book, Society of Architectural Historians, 1997.]
