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Joy Adams

Assistant Professor

Contact Information:
Office: Founders Hall 133
Phone: (707) 826-4976
E-mail: joy@humboldt.edu
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Personal Statement:

Specialty Area: American ethnic geography, cultural geography/landscape, ethnic identity, heritage tourism, North America (US and Canada)

Courses Taught:
•Migrations and Mosaics
•Senior Field Research
•Geography of the US and Canada
•Political Geography
•Geography of Recreation and Tourism
•Historical Geography of North America
•Intro to Cultural Geography
•Research Methods
•World Regional Geography

Education/degrees:
B.A. Geography University of Texas at Austin
M.A. Geography Southwest Texas State (now Texas State University)
Ph.D. University of Texas 2006

Research Interests:
Cultural geography
Geographies of ethnicity and race
Heritage tourism
North America

Employment experience:
Visiting Lecturer, Texas State University
Visiting Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Research Specialist III, Texas Water Development Board
Creative team, Garden.com, Austin, Texas
Editor, Middle Park Times, Kremmling, Colorado

Publications:

German for a Day? Festivals and symbolic ethnicity in Central Texas. 2005.  The Southwestern Geographer, vol. 9: 5-23.

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