Name: Lawrence McGlinn
Academic Rank: Assistant Professor
Department: Geography and Environmental Studies
Expertise Keywords: Chinese Immigration to the US, Environmental Policy, GIS, Hazards, Hudson River
Available For: interviews, essays, speaking
Expertise: Ph.D. in Geography from Penn State University, with 10 years of teaching and research experience. I have published articles on Chinese Immigration to the US, and on Environmental Hazards. I have consulted on numerous GIS projects related to demographics and to the environment.
Currrent Research: History of Industrial and Natural Hazards in the Hudson River Valley, Physical Geography in the undergraduate curriculum.
Contact Information
E-mail Address: mcglinnl@newpaltz.edu
Personal Web Site: http://www.newpaltz.edu/~mcglinnl
Other Information
Positions held prior to joining SUNY New Paltz:
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, Astronomy, and Geosciences - Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
Education
| Colleges/ Universities Attended |
Dates Attended |
Degree Conferred |
Year Conferred |
Major Subject |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penn State | 1989-92 | PhD | 92 | Geography |
| University of Kansas | 1981-85 | BA | 85 | East Asian Language and Culture |
| University of Kansas | 1985-89 | MA | 89 | Geography |
Awards/Grants/Honors
Numerous small grants and awards 1991- present.
Organizational Memberships
Association of American Geographers.
National Council on Geographic Education.
Publications
"Spatial Patterns of Hazardous Waste Generation and Management in the United States" Professional Geographer 52, 1, (2000) pp.11-22.
"Beyond Chinatown: Dual Migration and the Chinese Population of Metropolitan New York City, 2000" Middle States Geographer, 35, (2003)
"Distance and Dissolution: Geographic Patterns of Support for and Opposition to Dredging the Hudson River" Interdisciplinary Environment Review, 4, #2, (2003).
