Robert M Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3719296 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert M Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert M |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON R M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Writing geography: Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline
Writing is a vital activity for all academic geographers and essential to their success. But few graduate programs devote courses to teaching MA and PhD students how to write even though qualitative and quantitative methods courses are now commonplace. This article discusses some of the major critiques of academic writing and how I have sought to address these criticisms in Writing Geography, a graduate seminar I developed to help students improv…
Imagining the Green New Deal
Relinquished
This essay fuses memoir, oral history, and creative nonfiction to tell a personal historical geography of abortion and adoption before Roe v. Wade in the United States. I narrate the story of my birthmother’s unplanned pregnancy in the early 1970s and her fraught journey that ultimately led her to surrender me for adoption. Drawing on scholarship from history and geography about abortion and adoption, I contextualize her decisions to better under…
Authoritarian Environmental Governance: Insights from the Past Century
For over a decade, nature–society geographers have focused on neoliberal and, more recently, postneoliberal environmental governance. Meanwhile, regimes in many nations have become less democratic and other countries, such as the United States, have elected leaders sympathetic to autocrats. Yet despite the spread of authoritarianism, nature–society geographers have as of yet devoted little attention to the subject, which hampers us as we confront…
Faces of the Climate Movement
Mobile bodies: Animal migration in North American history
The Most Defiant Devil: William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife
Gregory J. Dehler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. xii and 254 pp., photos, notes, index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 9780813934105); $29.95 e-book (ISBN 9780813934341).Times are tough
Commentary 2: The state of the humanities in geography – a reflection
Reflections on the American environment
The Ugly Duckling
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the primary federal agency responsible for conserving wild animals in the United States. Yet it has attracted remarkably little attention from environmental historians. Through the regulations it enforces and the refuges it manages, the agency has had a profound impact on the nation's wildlife. The wildlife history of the United States, particularly in the twentieth century, is intertwined with the story of t…
Landscapes of Promise and Betrayal: Reclamation, Homesteading, and Japanese American Incarceration
The reclamation of arid lands in the Western United States is a key topic studied by scholars of the region. The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II occupies a place of similar prominence among those studying Asian American history. Yet neither group has carefully examined the relationship between federal reclamation and incarceration. Three of the ten concentration camps were built on U.S. Bureau of Reclamation irrigation pro…
Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway
worlds. Friendly to fellow whites, and protective of missionaries (Catholic and Protestant alike, although not religious himself) as well as his extended Indian family, Craig also had the reputation of a violent side. That reputation dates to his origins in Virginia, where at age eighteen, he purportedly killed a man in selfdefense but fled, fearing retribution and ending up in St. Louis. During his fur-trade years (from about 12 to 140), Crai…
Military Veterans Sharing First‐Person Stories of War and Homecoming: A Pathway to Social Engagement, Personal Healing, and Public Understanding of Veterans' Issues
What power, meaning and value may exist within a soldier's first‐person war story? Former Marine captain Tyler Boudreau, quoted below, suggests that constructing a personal narrative of the traumas of war and homecoming, then “asking questions” of the story, can provide a veteran with a “chart.” If this is so, can that chart help one along the road to healing from those traumas, especially when that story is shared with others? Could there be dan…
Supersized History
Brad D. Lookingbill — Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941; Brian Griffith — The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Directing the Flow: Migratory Waterfowl, Scale, and Mobility in Western North America
Factors Related to a Communication Style Among Medical House Staff
This study reports on some factors related to scores on a recently developed pencil-and paper measure of communication style among physicians in training. High scores on this measure (the Facilitating Response Index) indicate a greater preference by the responded to explore or clarify the thoughts or feelings of the patient in a nondirective, open-ended fashion. Higher scores were attained by physicians who had been exposed to interpersonal skill…
An Initial Investigation of the Relationship between Syntactical Divergency and the Listening Comprehension of Black Children
Walter N. Gantt, Robert M. Wilson, C. Mitchell Dayton, An Initial Investigation of the Relationship between Syntactical Divergency and the Listening Comprehension of Black Children, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1974 - 1975), pp. 193-211
Authoritarian Environmental Governance: Insights from the Past Century
For over a decade, nature–society geographers have focused on neoliberal and, more recently, postneoliberal environmental governance. Meanwhile, regimes in many nations have become less democratic and other countries, such as the United States, have elected leaders sympathetic to autocrats. Yet despite the spread of authoritarianism, nature–society geographers have as of yet devoted little attention to the subject, which hampers us as we confront…
Directing the Flow: Migratory Waterfowl, Scale, and Mobility in Western North America
Military Veterans Sharing First‐Person Stories of War and Homecoming: A Pathway to Social Engagement, Personal Healing, and Public Understanding of Veterans' Issues
What power, meaning and value may exist within a soldier's first‐person war story? Former Marine captain Tyler Boudreau, quoted below, suggests that constructing a personal narrative of the traumas of war and homecoming, then “asking questions” of the story, can provide a veteran with a “chart.” If this is so, can that chart help one along the road to healing from those traumas, especially when that story is shared with others? Could there be dan…
Faces of the Climate Movement
Mobile bodies: Animal migration in North American history
Reflections on the American environment
Landscapes of Promise and Betrayal: Reclamation, Homesteading, and Japanese American Incarceration
The reclamation of arid lands in the Western United States is a key topic studied by scholars of the region. The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II occupies a place of similar prominence among those studying Asian American history. Yet neither group has carefully examined the relationship between federal reclamation and incarceration. Three of the ten concentration camps were built on U.S. Bureau of Reclamation irrigation pro…
Writing geography: Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline
Writing is a vital activity for all academic geographers and essential to their success. But few graduate programs devote courses to teaching MA and PhD students how to write even though qualitative and quantitative methods courses are now commonplace. This article discusses some of the major critiques of academic writing and how I have sought to address these criticisms in Writing Geography, a graduate seminar I developed to help students improv…
Imagining the Green New Deal
An Initial Investigation of the Relationship between Syntactical Divergency and the Listening Comprehension of Black Children
Walter N. Gantt, Robert M. Wilson, C. Mitchell Dayton, An Initial Investigation of the Relationship between Syntactical Divergency and the Listening Comprehension of Black Children, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1974 - 1975), pp. 193-211
Factors Related to a Communication Style Among Medical House Staff
This study reports on some factors related to scores on a recently developed pencil-and paper measure of communication style among physicians in training. High scores on this measure (the Facilitating Response Index) indicate a greater preference by the responded to explore or clarify the thoughts or feelings of the patient in a nondirective, open-ended fashion. Higher scores were attained by physicians who had been exposed to interpersonal skill…
Directing the Flow: Migratory Waterfowl, Scale, and Mobility in Western North America
Brad D. Lookingbill — Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941; Brian Griffith — The Gardens of Their Dreams: Desertification and Culture in World History
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Supersized History
Military Veterans Sharing First‐Person Stories of War and Homecoming: A Pathway to Social Engagement, Personal Healing, and Public Understanding of Veterans' Issues
What power, meaning and value may exist within a soldier's first‐person war story? Former Marine captain Tyler Boudreau, quoted below, suggests that constructing a personal narrative of the traumas of war and homecoming, then “asking questions” of the story, can provide a veteran with a “chart.” If this is so, can that chart help one along the road to healing from those traumas, especially when that story is shared with others? Could there be dan…
Seeking Refuge: Birds and Landscapes of the Pacific Flyway
worlds. Friendly to fellow whites, and protective of missionaries (Catholic and Protestant alike, although not religious himself) as well as his extended Indian family, Craig also had the reputation of a violent side. That reputation dates to his origins in Virginia, where at age eighteen, he purportedly killed a man in selfdefense but fled, fearing retribution and ending up in St. Louis. During his fur-trade years (from about 12 to 140), Crai…
The Ugly Duckling
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is the primary federal agency responsible for conserving wild animals in the United States. Yet it has attracted remarkably little attention from environmental historians. Through the regulations it enforces and the refuges it manages, the agency has had a profound impact on the nation's wildlife. The wildlife history of the United States, particularly in the twentieth century, is intertwined with the story of t…
Landscapes of Promise and Betrayal: Reclamation, Homesteading, and Japanese American Incarceration
The reclamation of arid lands in the Western United States is a key topic studied by scholars of the region. The incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II occupies a place of similar prominence among those studying Asian American history. Yet neither group has carefully examined the relationship between federal reclamation and incarceration. Three of the ten concentration camps were built on U.S. Bureau of Reclamation irrigation pro…
Commentary 2: The state of the humanities in geography – a reflection
Reflections on the American environment
The Most Defiant Devil: William Temple Hornaday and His Controversial Crusade to Save American Wildlife
Gregory J. Dehler. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013. xii and 254 pp., photos, notes, index. $29.95 cloth (ISBN 9780813934105); $29.95 e-book (ISBN 9780813934341).Times are tough
Mobile bodies: Animal migration in North American history
Faces of the Climate Movement
Authoritarian Environmental Governance: Insights from the Past Century
For over a decade, nature–society geographers have focused on neoliberal and, more recently, postneoliberal environmental governance. Meanwhile, regimes in many nations have become less democratic and other countries, such as the United States, have elected leaders sympathetic to autocrats. Yet despite the spread of authoritarianism, nature–society geographers have as of yet devoted little attention to the subject, which hampers us as we confront…
Relinquished
This essay fuses memoir, oral history, and creative nonfiction to tell a personal historical geography of abortion and adoption before Roe v. Wade in the United States. I narrate the story of my birthmother’s unplanned pregnancy in the early 1970s and her fraught journey that ultimately led her to surrender me for adoption. Drawing on scholarship from history and geography about abortion and adoption, I contextualize her decisions to better under…
Imagining the Green New Deal
Writing geography: Teaching research writing and storytelling in the discipline
Writing is a vital activity for all academic geographers and essential to their success. But few graduate programs devote courses to teaching MA and PhD students how to write even though qualitative and quantitative methods courses are now commonplace. This article discusses some of the major critiques of academic writing and how I have sought to address these criticisms in Writing Geography, a graduate seminar I developed to help students improv…
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