DoB: 10/19/51 - Born: Stirling, Scotland.
Education
1973-1976 University of Bristol.
Awarded Ph.D. in 1976 for dissertation, “Residential mobility in the private housing market”.
1969-1973 University of Aberdeen. Awarded M.A. in Geography in 1973.
Employment
2005- Professor of Public Policy, Department of Public Policy, UMBC
2002-2005 Chair and Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC).
1990-2002 Professor of Geography, Maxwell School of Public Affairs and Citizenship, Syracuse University.
1978-1990 Lecturer in Geography, University of Reading, UK.
1976-1978 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Bristol, UK.
Awards
2002 The Leverhulme Visiting Professorship to UK,Loughborough University.
2001 Alexander O. Vietor Fellowship in Cartography, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
2001 Frank Hideo Kono Visiting Fellowship, Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
2000 Appleby-Mosher Faculty Research Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
1999 Dibner Library Fellowship, Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Smithsonian, Washinghton, DC.
1996 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Program. Newberry Library, Chicago.
1996 Andrew Mellon Resident Research Fellowship, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.
1996 Appleby-Mosher Faculty Research Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse University.
1995 Resident Research Fellowship, New York State Library, Albany.
1990 Erasmus Visiting Professor, Groningen University.
1985-1987 Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, Urban Research Unit Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra.
1985 British Academy Visiting Fellowship at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
1976-1978 Social Science Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship.
1973-1976 Social Science Research Council Doctoral Award.