Dr. J. Clark Archer
Professor, Department of Anthropology and Geography
Ph.D. University of Iowa (1974)
Office: 925 Oldfather Hall
Email: jarcher1@unl.edu
Phone: 402.472.1945
Fax: 402.472.9642
Research Interests
Electoral geography, Great Plains settlement, Interactive computer cartography, Population structure and distribution, Spatial aspects of public policy, Urban spatial structure
Courses
GEOG 120. Economic Geography
GEOG 140. Introduction to Human Geography
GEOG 272. Geography of World Regions
GEOG 361. Urban Geography
GEOG 414/814. Quantitative Methods in Geography
GEOG 447/847. Political Geography
GEOG 448/848. Pro-Seminar in International Relations
Education
Ph.D. - University of Iowa
M.A. - Indiana University
B.S. - Indiana University
Teaching Experience
Professor, 1995-present
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Associate Professor, 1989-1995
University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska
Assistant Professor, 1985-1989
University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1982-1985
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Assistant Professor, 1975-1982
University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
Assistant Professor, 1974-1975
University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1968-1971, 1972-1974
University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
Instructor, 1971-1972
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Graduate Teaching Assistant, 1966-1968
University of Iowa
Professional Memberships
American Association of University Professors
American Congress on Surveying and Mapping
Association of American Geographers
Institute of British Geographers
National Council for Geographic Education
National Geographic Society
Nebraska Academy of Sciences
Public Choice Society
Social Science History Association
Selected Publications
1996. Political Geography of the United States, with F. Shelley, F. Davidson, and S. Brunn, Guilford, New York, 364 pp. (Paperback ISBN 1-57230-048-5; Hardcover ISBN 1-57230-047-7).
1986. American Electoral Mosaics. Resource Publications in Geography, No. 1985/3, with F. Shelley, Association of American Geographers, Washington, D. C., x+97 pp. (Paperback ISBN 0-89291-195-6).
1981. Section and Party: A Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan. Geographical Research Studies Series, Studies in Political Geography, Vol. 4, with P. Taylor, John Wiley (Research Studies Press), Chichester, United Kingdom and New York, xiv+271 pp. (Hardcover ISBN 0-471-10014-5), Reprint edition, 1996, paper, ISBN 0-8357-3529-X, Bks Demand.
1998. "Emptying Areas of the United States, 1990-1995," with R. Lonsdale, Journal of Geography, Vol. 97, #3, pp. 108-122.
1997. "Geographical Aspects of U.S. Farmland Values and Changes During the 1978-1992 Period," with R. Lonsdale, Journal of Rural Studies, Vol. 13, #4, pp. 399-414.
1997. "The Perceived Geopolitical Importance of the Countries of the World: An Analytical and Pedagogical Investigation," with F. Shelley and J. Leib, Journal of Geography, Vol. 96, #2, pp. 76-83.
1997. "Political Sociology and Political Geography: A Quarter Century of Progress in Electoral Geography," with F. Shelley, in R.D. Dikshit, ed., Developments in Political Geography: A Century of Progress (Sage Publications India; New Delhi, India, pp. 205-225.
1995. "Changing Employment Patterns on the Northern and Central Great Plains," with R. Lonsdale, Great Plains Research, Vol. 5, #1, pp. 47-70.
1995. "The Historical Geography of Presidential Elections in the South, 1872-1992," with F. Shelley, Southeastern Geographer, Vol. 35, #1, pp. 22-36.
1994. "The United States: We, the People...", with F. Shelley, in P. Taylor, ed., World Government: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Geography, rev. ed., Oxford University Press, New York, pp. 52-69. (Reprint of 1990 ed.)
1994. "Changing the Way Albanian Geographers Look at their Land," with D. Rugg, R. Lonsdale and J. Peake, Journal of Geography, Vol. 93, #5, pp. 244-250.
1994. "Some Geographical Aspects of the American Presidential Election of 1992," with F. Shelley, Political Geography, Vol. 13, #2, pp. 137-159.
1993. "Spatial and Temporal Variability in the Geography of American Defense Outlays," with J. Crump, Political Geography, Vol. 12, #1, pp. 38-63.
1992. "A Medium-Term Perspective on Demographic Change in the American Midlands, 1803-1990," in I. Bowler, C. Bryant, and D. Nellis, eds., Contemporary Rural Systems in Transition; Volume 2, Economy and Society (Wallingford, United Kingdom: C.A.B. International), pp. 62-84.
