William C. Rowe

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6077 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: rowe@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, 2002

INTERESTS

Economic Geography
Cultural/Political Ecology
Geography of Religion

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

William Rowe. 2010. "Central Asia and Afghanistan." In World Regional Geography: A Development Approach, 10th ed. Edited by Douglas Johnson, Viola Haarmann, Merrill Johnson, David Clawson. Prentice Hall: New York.

William Rowe. 2007. “Cultural Muslims: The Evolution of Muslim Identity in Soviet and Post-Soviet Central Asia.” In Geographies of Muslim Identities: Diaspora, Gender and Belonging, edited by Mei-Po Kwan, Cara Atchison, and Peter Hopkins.

William Rowe. 2006. “Central Asia and Afghanistan: Historical and Geographical Contexts of Economy and Environment.” In World Regional Geography, 9th Edition, edited by David L. Clawson, Douglas L. Johnson, Viola Haarmann, and Merrill L. Johnson.

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2009 Tiger Athletic Foundation award for Outstanding Freshmen Teaching
2008 Tiger Athletic Foundation award for Outstanding Undergraduate teaching
2007-2009 Royal Geographic Society's Thesiger – Oman Fellow for Human Geography
2007-2009 Co-President , Middle East Specialty Group – AAG

COURSES TAUGHT