Rate My Professor Geoffrey Buckley

Geoffrey L. Buckley serves as Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Director of Experiential Learning in the Honors Tutorial College and as Professor of Geography at Ohio University, where he has taught in the Department of Geography for 24 years. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, an M.A. from the University of Oregon, and a B.A. from Connecticut College. Buckley's research specializations include environmental justice, historical geography, public lands, and urban sustainability. His current research examines the career of Arthur E. Demaray, who advanced through the ranks of the National Park Service to become its fifth director.

Throughout his career, Buckley has authored or edited six books, including The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape (2023, edited with Chris Post and Alyson Greiner), The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States (2018, edited with Yolonda Youngs), and North American Odyssey: Historical Geographies for the Twenty-first Century (2014, edited with Craig Colten). He has published more than 50 articles and book chapters. Key recent publications feature "Learning by Doing: Building Place-Based Experiential Learning into the Curriculum" (in press, Honors in Practice 21, with N. Finnicum, M. O’Malley, J. Bowie, and Y. Youngs), "Promoting Diversity at Cuyahoga Valley National Park" (Environmental Justice 16(2): 162-170, 2022, with E. Dickerman), "Theoretical Perspectives of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: Conceptual Evolution in a Socio-Ecological Research Project" (Bioscience, 2020, with S.T.A. Pickett et al.), "The Legacy Effect: Understanding How Segregation and Environmental Justice Unfold Over Time in Baltimore" (Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108(2): 524-537, 2018, with J.M. Grove et al.), "Rethinking Fountainbridge: Honoring the Past and Greening the Future" (chapter in Explorations in PLACE Attachment, 2018), and "The Greening of Baltimore’s Asphalt Schoolyards" (The Geographical Review 107(3): 516-535, 2017, with C.G. Boone and J.M. Grove). In 2021, he received Baker Fund support for his research project "Silent Partner: The National Geographic Society and America's National Parks."