"it's a cruel, crazy, beautiful world"
- Johnny Clegg
Craig S. Revels, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Land Studies
Central Washington University
Ellensburg WA 98926
revelsc@cwu.edu
509.963.1447
Research interests
I am a human geographer with a wide range of interests. In a general sense, this involves consideration of nature-society interactions over time to understand landscape change at local and regional scales. Much of my research focuses on the historical and cultural geography of Central America, particularly on the development of economic, settlement, and agricultural landscapes in Honduras and Nicaragua. I also have strong interests in regional identity and cultural change in the United States, particularly the trans-Mississippi West, and the ways in which sense of place shapes perception and use of the physical environment.
Vitae
Winter quarter 2009
Geog 108: Introduction to Human Geography
Geog 470: Latin America
Media
New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian (UK), Miami Herald (News from the Americas), Harper's Magazine, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Orion, Mother Jones, National Public Radio, Slate.com, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Northwest Public Radio, BBC World Service, , AllAfrica, The Wilson Quarterly, High Country News, Arts and Letters Daily,
Resources
Population Reference Bureau, Cultural Survival, DATA, Latin American Network Information Center, MoveOn.org, Fact Check.org,TransfairUSA, Make Trade Fair, Equal Exchange, Mercy Corps, The ONE Campaign
Professional Organizations
Association of American Geographers, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, American Society for Environmental History, American Geographical Society
Music
American Routes, Radio Paradise, WWOZ, Little Steven's Underground Garage, Twangcast,
U2, Joe Strummer, Jimmy Buffett, Coldplay, Shannon McNally, Johnny Clegg, Hothouse Flowers, Lucinda Williams,
Page in progress...
Rio Patuca, Honduras, December 1999
Current research
- African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) cultivation in Honduras
- impacts and legacies of caminos reales in Honduras
- ethnicity and place in the Pacific Northwest
- industrial beef production in the Pacific Northwest (with Morris Uebelacker, Central Washington University)
- poplar (Populus) resources and landscapes of the Pacific Northwest
- symbolic/prestige economies as influences on landscape change in the Bay of Honduras
- land use-land cover change associated with migration and agricultural development in southern Belize (with Michael Emch, University of North Carolina and Martha Works, Portland State University)
Recent publications
"Plan of the Mosquito Territory and the adjacent Port of Truxillo [1850]" (text to plate XCV), pp. 210-11, in William V. Davidson, ed. Honduras: An Atlas of Historical Maps/Atlas de Mapas Históricos de Honduras (Colección Cultural de Centro América, serie histórico no. 18.). Managua: Fundacion Uno.
Concessions, Conflict, and the Rebirth of the Honduran Mahogany Trade. Journal of Latin American Geography 2: 1-17.
"Tonight, at last, I am coming home": West and North on the American Interstate. The North American Geographer 4(1-2): 111-121.
Coffee in Nineteenth Century Nicaragua: Introduction and Expansion in the Nineteenth Century. Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers 26: 17-28.
Eight Dollar Mountain, Oregon, 2000
