Major: Geography

Degree: Ph.D.

Date: 1984 

Dissertation title: "The Cheju Island [South Korea] Peasant Landscape".
 Institution: United States Defense Language Institute

Degree: Korean Program Diploma     

Date: 1979

Institution: California State University, Northridge                  

Major: Geography     

Degree: M.A.               

Date: 1970
           
Thesis title: "Nomad Gypsies in Los Angeles: Patterns of Livelihood".
 
Institution: California State University, Northridge 

Major:Political Science   

Degree: B.A.              

Date: 1966
 
EMPLOYMENT  AND  EXPERIENCE:
 
Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio.
 
September 1994 - July 2002
Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
 
September 1989 - August 1994         
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of  Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
 
August 1986 - August 1989
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.
 
January - July 1986
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, California State University, Long             Beach, California (January-June); Assistant Professor, Department of Geography,   Loyola-Marymount University, Los Angeles, California (January-June). Instructor of Geography. California Youth Authority campus (Ventura County Community College), Camarillo (June-July).
           
September 1984 - August 1985
Associate Professor, Humanities Division, and Curator of the Joseph E. Spencer Aerial   Photograph Collection and Remote Sensing Laboratory, at Cheju National University,      
 
April 1980 - August 1981
Assistant Professor, Social Science Division, Cheju National University, Republic of Korea.
 
April 1975 - December 1977
Occupational Researcher and Planner, California Manpower Management Information System.
 
December  1974 - October  1977
Environmental Consultant. Projects: Controversial land divisions in the Upper Ojai Valley, Ventura County; The California Coastal Study; Ventura County General Plan Amendment 75-1; Padre Juan Canyon sanitary landfill controversy in Ventura County. Details about these accounts, etc., are available on request (see also Limited Circulation Reports, below).
 
November 1972 - December 1974
Peace Corps, ESL Instructor, Chunchon and Cheju Island, Republic of Korea.
Peace Corps Advisory Council in Korea.
Workshop instructor.
Contributor to textbooks used by Korean schools.
 
COURSES TAUGHT (by frequency):

Cultural Geography; Asia; Philosophy and Methodology; Conservation and Resources; Gypsy Ethnicity in a Multicultural Context (Honors seminar); Gypsy Life and Culture (Master of Liberal Studies seminar); Feng-Shui Cosmology and Environmental Design; Body as Canvas (Honors seminar); Postmodern Notions about Scientific Devotions (Honors seminar); Introductory Human Geography; Field Experience; Advanced Cultural Geography; Urban Design; Postmodern Thinking and Cinema (Honors seminar); Physical Geography (laboratory); Cities of Humankind; Postmodern Geographies (proseminar); Environment and Humankind.
 
AWARDS, HONORS, LEADERSHIP, MENTORING:
 
Recipient. University of Toledo Outstanding Teacher Award for 1995-1996.
Recipient. Exceptional Writing Across the Curriculum Teaching Award. 2000.
NCUR/Lancy Summer Scholar Mentor, Summers 1999, 2000.
UT Undergraduate Student Research Fellowship Mentor, Summer 2001
Recipient. Master Teacher Award from the College of Arts and Sciences 1995-1996;1997-1998.
Sabbaticals: 1996 (Fall); 2004 (Spring)
Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society, Upsilon Tau Circle, inducted 1996.
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society for International Scholars, Beta Rho Chapter, inducted 1994.  
Gamma Theta Upsilon International Geographical Honor Society, inducted 1992.
 
President, Gypsy Lore Society, 1986-1988. Secretary, Gypsy Lore Society, 1991-1992;   1993-1994. Elected Member of the Board of Directors for five three-year terms.
 
Member, Executive Board, American Association of University Professors, University of Toledo Chapter. 1996-1999
 
Scholar-in-Residence, UCLA Department of Geography, October 1985 - July 1986.
 

Graduated with Honors, and Certificate of Appreciation for Academic Excellence, United States Defense Language Institute Korean Department, 1979.
 

MEMBERSHIPS:
 
Association of American Geographers (AAG)
Association of Pacific Coast Geographers (APCG)
California Geographical Society
Gypsy Lore Society (GLS)
 
PUBLICATIONS:
 
“ Review,” for California Geographer. Geography Inside Out, by Richard Symanski/Korski. NY: Syracuse University Press, 2002. Forthcoming.
 
" Suspino: Cry for Roma.” Documentary film review. Forthcoming.
 
“ The Profound Problem of Locating Humanity: The Significance and Implications of Feng-shui.” In Barney Warf, Don Janelle, and Kathy Hanson (eds.), Worldminds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems. Netherlands: Klewer. In Press.
 
“ Blame Walt Rostow for Miss Som Rasmey’s Acid Bath.” Geographical Bulletin. In Press.
 
 “ Geography of the Koreas.” 2003. Tune In Korea: Geography and Society Readings. Asia Society “AskAsia Korea” website: http://www.askasia.org/Korea/r1.html
 
Gypsy-American: An Ethnogeography. 2002. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press.
 
“ The Significance of Cheju Island Feng-shui.” 2001. Proceedings of the Tamna Culture Research Institute Conference on Feng-shui. Pp. 1-11. November. Tamna Culture Research Institute, Cheju National University.
 
“The End of the Re(li)gion.“ 2000.North American Geographer. 2,1(Spring):1-8
 
“Hubcap Commitment and Madcap Morality: Encouraging Signs along Postmodern Paths of Uncertainty.” 2000. In James Norwine and Jonathan Smith (eds.), Worldview Flux: Perplexed Values among Postmodern Peoples, pp. 233-250.  Latham, MD.: Lexington Books.
 
With David Kaplan. 1999. “Absurdist Cartography.” 1999. California Geographer.  4-6.
 
With David Kaplan. 1999. “The Dada Millennium Map.” 1999. Map supplement to the California Geographer.
 
With Deborah J. Keirsey. 1999. “Elaboration on the Nature of Woody Debris: An Ethical Snag in the Aesthetic Justification for Organized River Cleanup.” Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. Volume 61:86-107.
 
" Pigsty Privies in Prehistory? A Korean Analog for Neolithic Chinese Subsistence Practices." 1998.  In Sarah Nelson (ed.), Ancestors For the Pigs. Pigs in Prehistory. MASCA (Museum Applied Science Center For Archaeology), Research Papers in Science and Archaeology. Volume 15. Pp.11-26. Philadelphia, PA: Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
 
" Geographic Gateways to Seeing and Understanding Korea." 1998. Education About Asia. 3,1 (Spring):47-51.
 
" Extreme Geography." 1997. California Geographer.  37:10-31.
 
" Materials of an 'Undisciplined' Social Science." 1996. Review Article: William Lockwood and Sheila Salo (eds.), Gypsies and Travelers in North America: An Anotated Bibliography  (1994) and Diane Tong (ed.), Gypsies: An Annotated Bibliography (1995). In Current Anthropology   37,1 (February):179-181.
 
" Nomadi Fornitori di Servizi: Signori Temporanei di Mercati Imperfetti." 1995. In Leonardo Piasere (ed.), Comunitá Girovaghe, Comunitá Zingare. Pp.231-350. Napoli, Italy: Liguori Editore. In Italian.
 
" Discussion and Criticism: The Importance of Pigs in Neolithic Shandong [China]." 1995. Current Anthropology.  36,2 (April):292-293.
 
" Korea." 1995. The Asian American Encyclopedia. Volume 2. Pp. 841-844. Marshall Cavendish, Publishers.
 
" Feng Shui." 1995. The Asian American Encyclopedia. Volume 2. Pp. 414-416. Marshall Cavendish, Publishers.
 
" Enlightened Underdevelopment." 1994. The Spirit and Power of Place: Human Environment and Sacrality: Essays Dedicated to Yi-Fu Tuan.. In Rana P.B. Singh (ed.). Pps: 87-100. Varanasi, India: NGSI Publications No. 41. Concurrently published under same title in National Geographical Journal of India  40,1-4:87-100.
 
" Irving Brown: The American Borrow?" 1994. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society. Fifth Series 4,1(February):7-31.[Note: this article compares and contrasts two major English-language travel-adventure authors who have featured ethnic Gypsies in their works].
 
" A Cross-Cultural Cosmographic Interpretation of Some Korean Geomancy Maps." 1993. Cartographica 30,1(Spring):85-97.
 
With Arthur A. Costantino. 1993. "Enhancing the Built Environment To Promote Multiculturalism: A Collaborative Project." Journal of College Student Development.  34(July ):310-11.
 
" Kolisuch'ok." 1993. In Levison, David and Paul Hockings (eds.), Encyclopedia of World Cultures:  Vol. 5; East and Southeast Asia. Pp. 141-144. Boston: G. K. Hall.
 
" Comment: Neo-Confucianism and the East Asian Martial Arts." 1992. Journal of Asian Martial Arts.  1,4:44-49.
 
Principal author, along with Samuel Attoh and William Muraco. 1992. "Background and Progress in Planning a Built Environment That Promotes Multiculturalism." Journal of Planning Education and Research 12,1 (Fall) 80-85.
 
" The Dogleg at Frank's Cutacross."1992.  In Donald G. Janelle, (ed.), Geographical Snapshots of North America. Pp. 255-258. New York: The Guilford Press.
 
" A Case Study of Rom Gypsy Residential Mobility in the United States." 1991. In Robin Datel and Dennis J. Dingemans (eds.), Yearbook of Pacific Coast Geographers. Vol. 53:131-154. Corvallis, Oregon: Oregon State University Press. (Invited revised version of citation below)
 
" A Case Study of Rom Gypsy Residential Mobility in the United States." 1991. Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Series 5, vol. 1, no. 2 (March), pp. 21-43.
 
"Feng-shui As Terrestrial Astrology in Traditional China and Korea." 1991. In James Swan, ed., Power of Place: Sacred Ground in Natural & Human Environments.  Pp. 215-234. Wheaton, Ill.: Quest Books.
 
with C. Howard Richardson. 1991. "Hurricane-Borne African Locusts [Schistocerca gregaria] in the Windward Islands." Geojournal.  (April), pp. 349-357.
 
" Field Notes from 1970: A Kris in River City." 1990. In  Matt T. Salo (ed.), 100 Years of Gypsy Studies, pp. 117-136. Cheverly, Md.: The Gypsy Lore Society. Republished, in Hungarian, for edited book (2000).
 
" A Study of the Interactions of Human, Pig and Human Pork Tapeworm [Taenia solium ]."  1989.Anthrozoos. 3,1(Summer), pp 4-13.
 
" The Walking Tractor: Trojan Horse in the Cheju Island Landscape." 1988. Korean Studies  12 (1988), pp 14-38. Republished in Tamla Munhwa, 10:1-28.
 
" Cultural Response to Ocean Influences and Coastal Settlement: A Geopsychological Interpretation."  1988, Michigan Academician., 20,4(Fall), pp. 487-498.
 
" Prester John and the Gypsies." In Joanne Grumet (ed.). Papers From the Eighth and Ninth Annual Meeting of the Gyspy Lore Society, North American Chapter. Pps. 139-142. New York: Gypsy Lore Society, Publication No. 4, 1988.
 
" Notes on Some Early Western Travellers on Cheju Island." Tamla Munhwa 7:153-180. Cheju City, R.O.K.: Tamla Culture Research Institute of Cheju National University, 1988.
 
The Architecture of Ideology:  Neo-Confucian Imprinting on Cheju Island, Korea.  Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1987. 323 pps.
 
" Patterns of Genesis Among Peripatetics: Preliminary Notes From the Korean Archipelago." In Aparna Rao (ed.), The Other Nomads: Peripatetic Minorities in Cross-Cultural Perspective, pp. 159-178. Koln; Wien: Bohlau, 1987.
 
" Service Nomads:  Interim Masters of Imperfect Markets." In Joseph Berland and Matt T. Salo (eds.). Peripatetic Peoples: An Overlooked Adaptation. Pp. 135-152. Special edition of Nomadic Peoples 21/22. Commission on Nomadic Peoples, 1986.
 
" The Gypsy Motif." In Joanne Grumet (ed.), Papers from the Sixth and Seventh Annual Meetings, Gypsy Lore Society,  pp.114-122.  New York:  Gypsy Lore Society, Publication No. 3, 1986.
 
" To Preserve What Might Otherwise Perish." In Joanne Grumet (ed.), Papers from the Sixth and Seventh Annual Meetings, Gypsy Lore Society,  pp. 5-16.  New York: Gypsy Lore Society, Publication No. 3, 1986.
 
" Cheju Island's Pigsty-Privies:  The Architecture of Sincerity."  Landscape 28,3 (1985), 15-21.
 
" The Remote Sensing Facilities at Cheju National University: Rationale and Development." Cheju National University Faculty Research Journal, Social Sciences 20 (1985), 197-216.
 
“ Problems in the Interpretation of Literature: Semiotics and the Social Reality of the Gypsy.” Helicon (Journal of the Cheju National University [South Korea] Department of English). Vol. 1 (1985):39-52.
 
" The Wanderer's Gain is the Citizen's Loss: Scholars, Barbers and a Traditional Chinese Attitude About Traveling as a Mode of Life."  In Joanne Grumet (ed.). Papers from the Fourth and Fifth Annual Meetings of the Gypsy Lore Society, pp. 28-37.  New York: Gypsy Lore Society, Publication Number 2, 1985.
 
" Prolegomenon to a Geographic Study on the Subjective Quality of Inner-city Space." Cheju National University Faculty Research Journal, Social Sciences 19  (1984),151-162.
 
" The Lifting-Stones of Cheju Island."  Korean Culture 5,1 (March 1984), 30-33.
 
" Bat and Ball." (A Rom Gypsy Oral History). Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, North American Chapter, 6,4 (Autumn 1983), 1,4.
 
"Graven Images and Cosmic Landscape on Cheju Island."  Korean Culture 4,1 (March 1983), 4-19.
 
With Ernst-G. Niemann. "Siegfried Genthe's Cheju Odyssey." Journal of Asian Culture (1982), 74-103.
 
" A Gypsy Wipe-Tinner and His Work."  Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Fourth Series, 2,1 (1982), 31-52.
 
" Gypsy Taskmasters, Gentile Slaves."  In Matt T. Salo (ed.).  The American Kalderas: Gypsies and the New World., pp. 29-41. Hackettstown, N.J.: Gypsy Lore Society, 1981.
 
"Bright Yard Maps from Cheju Island." Landscape 25,2 (1981), 20-21.
 
"Gypsy Studies in the Far East." Newsletter of the Gypsy Lore Society, 3,3 (Summer 1980), 1,6.
 
" 'Gypsy Camp' 1949." Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Fourth Series, 1,3 (1979) 181-186.
 
" Gypsy Justice in America." Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society, Fourth Series, 1,1 (1976), 1-11. Republished in Hungarian, for edited book (2000).
 
In addition to the above, published book reviews include:
           
            David Sibley, Outsiders in Urban Societies
            Michael O. Jones, People Studying People
            David E. Kaplan and Alec Dubro, Yakuza
            Larry L. Burmeister, Research, Realpolitik, and Development in Korea;
            Clark W. Sorensen, Over the Mountains Are Mountains
            David Speirs, Pavee Pictures
            Rachel Guglielmo, Milyen út vár rájuk? The Gypsy Road
            Bret Wallach, Losing Asia
                        (Complete citations are available on request)
 

WORK IN PROGRESS:
 
Safe-Zones. Book manuscript in preparation.
 
1992-2002 RESEARCH PAPERS PRESENTED (PaP), WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS (WP), POSTER PRESENTATIONS (PoP), WORKSHOPS ATTENDED (W):
 
2003. “Kircherizing Geography.” 10th Annual Miniconference in Critical Geography. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. October. PaP.
 
2003. “The Walking Tractor as a Weapon of Mass Destruction.” Geography Colloquium. Indiana State University. October. WP.
 
2003. “Kircherized Knowledge and ‘The Egyptian Question’.” International Gypsy Lore Society (founded 1888) Annual Meeting and Conference. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. May. PaP
 
2003. “The Other Berkeley School.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans. March. PaP.
 
2002. “Development as a Conspiracy of Growth.” Invited presentation. Geography Department, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI. November. WP.
 
2002. “Cheju Island Feng-shui.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, March. PaP.
 
2001. “Blame Rostow for Som Rasmey’s Acid Bath.” Southeast Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Lexington, Ky. November. PaP.
 
2001. “Feng-shui Thinking and its Significance Today.” Invited paper. Cheju National University, Tamla Culture Reseaerch Center. South Korea. November. PaP.
 
2001. “Humboldt in North Africa: A Counterfactual Geography.” Alexander von Humboldt Conference 2001. Humboldt State University. June. (PaP)
 
2001. “Law and Ethnicity: Gypsy Justice in America.” Conference on Law and Social Thought, University of Toledo. April.
 
2001. “Comments on Peter Sloterdijk’s Critique of Cynical Reason.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, March. (PaP)
 
2001. “Scrooge McDuck: American Geography’s Rich Uncle.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York, March. (PaP)
 
2000. “Where’s That Tiger?” Korean Reunification and the DMZ (Demilitarized Zoo).” East Lakes and West Lakes Divisions of the American Association of Geographers (ELD/WLD AAG) Annual Meeting. Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. October. (PaP)
 
2000. “Postmodern Notions and Progressive Devotions.” Seventh Annual Cincinnati Mini-Conference in Critical Geography, University of Cincinnati, October. (PaP)
 
2000. “Imagining Humboldt in North Africa.” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Arcata, CA. September. (PaP)
 
2000. “Workshop on Central and Eastern Europe in Transition since 1989.” University of Indiana. May. (W)
 
2000. “Routes 666: Adventures in Critical Thinking.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh. March. (PaP)
 
2000. “The Infinite Region.” World 2000 Conference on Teaching World History and World Geography. Austin, Texas. February. (PaP)
 
1999. “Enlightened Underdevelopment and the Myth of the Ecological Gypsy.” East Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Mohican State Park Lodge, Ohio. November. (Pap)
 
1999. “Alain LeRoy Locke and the Roots of Critical Relativism in African-American Intellectual Thought.” Sixth Annual Cincinnati Mini-Conference in Critical Geography, University of Cincinnati, October. (PaP)
 
1999. “Routes 666: The Devil’s Highways.” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Reno, NV. September. (PaP)
 
1999. (with Deborah J. Keirsey). “Elaboration on the Nature of Woody Debris: An Ethical Snag in the Aesthetic Justification for Organized River Cleanup.” Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Society for Aesthetics and the Society of Philosophy and Geography Special Session on “Questioning Natural Spaces and Their Aesthetic Appreciation.” University of Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. June. (PaP)
 
1999. “What’s Outside of Pleasantville? ’The Hawaii of Korea’ and the Formation of Fictive Kin Regions.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Honolulu. March. (PaP)
 
1999. (with Wang Zhongze), “Nature’s Principles and Urban Sprawl in Beijing, China.” Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Annual Meeting, Grand Valley State University. March. (PaP)
 
1998. (with David Kaplan), “Parallel Cartographies.” Fifth Annual Cincinnati Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. October. (PaP)
 
1998. (with David Kaplan). “Absurdist Cartography: The Dada Millenium Map of the United States.” East Lakes Division of the American Association of Geographers (ELDAAG) Annual Meeting. Columbus, Ohio. October. (PaP)
 
1998. (with Deborah J. Keirsey). “Woody Debris: The Ethical Snag in Constructing Scenic Urban Waterways.” Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. Flagstaff, AZ. October. (PaP)
 
1998. “All Seaports Are Harlots.” Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting and Conference, Boston, March. (PaP)
 
1998. “Stratagems and Strategies: Mindful Learning and the Gypsy Sublime.” Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy Studies. University of Texas at Arlington, March. (PaP)
 
1998. (with David Kaplan, Jessica Smith, Patrick Bentle), “Mapping the Postmodern: Pastiche and Plurivalence.” Poster presentation. Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters Annual Meeting, Alma College, February. (PoP)
 
1997. (with Deborah J. Keirsey), "The Proxemics of Humans and Pigs in Prehistory." Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. Spokane, WA. September. (PaP)
 
1997. Invited speaker. "Geographic Gateways To Seeing and Understanding Korea." Presentation at the "Learn Korea: Hangul, Folklore & Geography." Korean Studies Conference for K-12 Teachers in Long Island & New York. Sponsored by the Korea Society. October. (WP)
 
1997. "What's Critical About Critical Relativism?" Fourth Annual Cincinnati Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. October. (PaP)
 
1997. (with Elizabeth A. Nowaczyk), "Crossing Boundaries Without a License. Vanity Plates, Freedom of Speech and Identity on the American Highway. East Lakes Division, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Michigan State University, October. (PaP)
 
1997. "Extreme Geography." Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting and Conference, Ft. Worth. April. (PaP)
 
1996. "Regarding Enlightened Underdevelopment Reconsidered: Srhi Jnaaneshwara's Ideas in Postmodern Context." World Philosophers Meet.: A Parliament of Science, Religion and Philosophy, Maharashta Institute of Technology, Pune, India. (PaP)
 
1996. "In the Company of Students." Luncheon Seminar sponsored by the University of Toledo Center For Teaching Excellence. October. (PaP)
 
1996. (with Deborah J. Keirsey), "Critical Relativism: Geographica Dysrationalia? " Cincinnati Mini-Conference on Critical Geography, University of Cincinnati, Ohio. October. (PaP)
 
1996. (with Deborah J. Keirsey), "Geographica Dysrationalia:: Critical Relativism and its Postemodern Moment." Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. Sacramento State University, June. (PaP)
 
1996. "Postmodern Geographies: Tales From the Crypt." Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting and Conference, Charlotte. April. (PaP)
 
1996. "The Postmodernization of Gypsy Studies" Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy Studies, New School For Social Research, NYC, March. (PaP)
 
1995. "Comments on the Spread of Coffee House Culture and the Deinstitutionalization of Systematic Rape in South Korea." East Lakes Division Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Toledo, Ohio. October. (PaP)
 
1995. "Feng Shui and Postmodern Geography." Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting. Sonoma State University, California. June . (PaP)
 
1995. "Gypsies: Modernity's Scapegoats as Postmodernity's Heroes." Gypsy Lore Society Annual Meeting and Conference on Gypsy Studies. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands. May. (PaP)
 
1995. "Human/Locust Relations: A Story Untold." Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting and Conference, Chicago. April. (PaP)
 
1995. "Postmodern Cultural Geograpy and the Conspiracies of Modernity: The Case of Walking Tractors on Cheju Island, South Korea." Geography Colloquium, Florida State University. March. (PaP)
 
1995. "Teaching About Korea." Florida Geographic Alliance Statewide Teacher's Workshop on Contemporary Korea. Florida State University. March. (WP)
 
1994. Media Relations Workshop. Association of American University Professors, University of Rhode Island. June. (W)
 
1994. Midwestern Workshop on "Heritage and Prospects of Mongolia and Tibet." Indiana University, May. (W)
 
1994. "Death Rites Among American Rom Gypsies." Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing, April. (PaP)
 
1994. "Gravemarkers in a Rom Gypsy Cemetery in Los Angeles." American Cultural Association, Chicago, April. (PaP)
 
1994. "'Safe Zones' and 'No-Go Zones'": Problems in the Social Construction of Space. Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting and Conference, San Francisco, March. (PaP)
 
1993. "Recent Changes in African Desert Locust Control Strategy." Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Berkeley, CA, September. (PaP)
 
1993. Invited participant. Midwestern Workshop on "Contemporary Central Asia." Indiana University, May. (W)
 
1993. Invited speaker. "Strategies in Geography: Writing Across the Curriculum." University of Toledo WAC Program, April. (PaP)
 
1993. "The Regional Concept and Public Forum Doctrine." Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Atlanta, Ga., April. (PaP)
 
1992. "Geographical Aspects of Public Forum Doctrine: Erosion of First Amendment Rights." East Lakes Geographers Annual Meeting, Central Michigan University, October. (PaP)
 
1992. "Existential Geography and The Dogleg At Frank's Cutacross." International Geographical Congress, Washington, D. C., August. (PaP)
 
1992. "Cosmographic Interpretation of Some Old Korean Geomancy Maps." Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. April. (PaP)
 
1992. "Wake Up an Die: Some Impacts of Technology Transfer On a Traditional Asian Ecosystem." Invited Speaker's Program, Department of Geography, Kent State University. March. (PaP)
 
1992. "Irving Brown: An American Borrow." Gypsy Lore Society Annual Conference, Harvard University, March. (PaP)
 
LIMITED CIRCULATION REPORTS:
 
1971. "Who Are Our Gypsy Neighbors?"
1975. "The Truth About the Landfill."
1975. "Amendment to the Open Space Plan 75-1."
1976. "A Community Appreciation Program."
1976. "In Defense of the Mission of Jacques Cousteau."
1976. "What Is the Public Interest in the Coastal Zone?"
1976. "The Land Bleeds Tar."
1992. "University of Toledo Master Plan Update." Contributing author.
 
MEDIA  PRESENTATIONS:
 
1996. "Sirens of the Deep." Consultant. National Geographic Explorer. Aired worldwide.
 
1994. "Gypsies in Toledo." Principal consultant. Channel Eleven News series (three 5 min. segments). Aired locally.
 
1981. "An American Scholar Studies Our Geomantic Traditions." Principal consultant. Korean Broadcasting Corporation News Video (20 minutes). Aired Nationwide in Korea.

Revised September, 2003