Doctoral Dissertation

"'Alterations They Have Made at This Day': Environment, Agriculture, and Landscape Change in Essex County, Virginia, 1600-1782"

"From Tidewater to Blue Ridge: The Expansion of Population in Eastern Virginia During the Early Eighteenth Century"

Phi Beta Kappa (1983), Phi Kappa Phi (1994), Gamma Theta Upsilon (1986), Alpha Phi Sigma (1982)

Longwood College - Instructor, August 1991-1996; Assistant Professor, 1996-present
University of Richmond - Adjunct Instructor, Fall, 1999
J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College - Instructor, 1990-1991
University of Maryland, University College - Instructor, 1989

Basic Elements of Geography
Cultural Geography (Longwood and J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College)
Geography of Europe
Geography of Maryland (University of Maryland, University College)
Geography of the US and Canada
Geography of Virginia
Introduction to Cartography
Research in Geography
Special Projects in Geography
World Regional Geography
World Regional Geography (Honors)
World Regional Geography - Developed Regions (University of Richmond)

Student Government Association Commendation for Contributions to Student Life, May 2, 1995

Publications

Review of Bathed in Blood: Hunting and Mastery in the Old South by Nicolas W. Proctor. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 110 / Number 2 [2002].

World Regional Geography Maps First Edition (Farmville, VA: David S. Hardin, 2001).

"Laws of Nature: Wildlife Management Legislation in Colonial Virginia." In The American Environment: Interpretations of Past Geographies, pp. 137-162. Edited by Craig Colten and Larry Dilsaver (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1992).

"Lists of Inhabitants, 1782-1785." Introduction to microfilm reproduction, Virginia State Library and Archives, June, 1991.

"Laws of Nature: Environmental Legislation in Colonial Virginia, 1619-1776." Virginia Geographer 22, 2 (1990): 53-67.

"Knoxville: A Streetcar City." With Leonard Brinkman. East Tennessee Historical Society display, April 2-May 4, 1985.

Manuscript reviewer, The North American Geographer.

Reviewer, H. J. de Blij and Peter O. Muller, Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts 11th Edition (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004).

Map [geology] in Edith A. Dunn and George (Rip) Rapp, "Characterization of Mortars and Pozzalonic Materials from Umm al-Jimal, a Late Roman/Byzantine Site in Northeast Jordan," Studies in Conservation. (forthcoming)

Maps [location, geology] in Edith A. Dunn, "A Case Study of Ancient Mortars and Cements from Umm al-Jimal, Jordan, with Implications for Archaeological Site Conservation" (Doctoral Dissertation, University of Minnesota-Duluth, 2001).

Map [location] in Garcia, Stewart, and Northington, "Relationship Between Densities of Freshwater Mollusks and Substratum Particle Size in the Appomattox River, Virginia."  Presentation at Virginia Academt of Sciences, 2000.

Maps [battlefields] in T. N. Dupuy, Attrition: Forecasting Battle Casualties and Equipment Losses in Modern War (Fairfax, VA: Data Memory Systems, Inc., 1990).

"Jabuka i Naranca?: Using the 1991 and 2001 Croatian Censuses for Homeland War Studies.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March 6, 2003.

"Gone in a Flash: The Serb Catastrophe in Croatia's Western Slavonia, 1991-2001."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 20, 2002.

"Population Change in Western Slavonia, Croatia, 1991-2001."  Paper presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Association of American Geographers, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, October 5, 2001.

"How Much a Factor?: A Reconsideration of Soil Exhaustion in Colonial Tidewater Virginia."  Paper presented at the American Society for Environmental History Biennial Conference, Baltimore, MD, March 7, 1997.

"'Alterations They Have Made at This Day': Environment, Agriculture, and Landscape Change in Colonial Tidewater Virginia." Paper presented at Longwood Colloquium Lecture Series, Farmville, Virginia, 1996.

"Regional Environmental Variation, Agriculture, and Landscape Change in Colonial Tidewater Virginia." Paper presented at the Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1996.

Session chair/discussant, "The Virginia Frontier," Eastern Historical Geography Association Meeting, Alexandria, Virginia, 1995.

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, 1993.

Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, 1992.

"Toward a Historical Geography of the Chesapeake Environment." Paper presented at the National Council for Geographic Education Annual Meeting, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1990.

"Laws of Nature: Environmental Legislation in Colonial Virginia, 1619-1776." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1990.

"'Bewitching Vegetable': Tobacco, Environment, and Recultivation in the Colonial Chesapeake." Paper presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, 1989.

"Vampires, Aliens, and Dog-Faced Boys: The Spatial Dimensions of Sensationalist Journalism in the Weekly World News." With Jay Thomas. Research presented at a seminar at the Geography Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1988.

"Eclectic Images of the Interior: A Photographic Journey Through the Central United States." Research presented at a seminar at the Geography Department, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, 1987.

Session Chair, "The Changing Face of Rural America," Pioneer America Society Annual Meeting, Edenton, North Carolina, 1985.

"From Tidewater to Blue Ridge: The Expansion of Population in Early Eighteenth-Century Virginia." Paper presented at the Pioneer America Society Annual Meeting, Edenton, North Carolina, 1985.

Reversal of fortunes for ethnic Serbs in Western Slavonia, Croatia - ongoing study of the ethnic Serb community's attempt to forge a "Greater Serbia" out of portions of Croatia (Western Slavonia lies between Bosnia and Hungary in the northeastern arm of Croatia). Serb attempts to drive Croats out of Western Slavonia after the collapse of Yugoslavia in 1991 ultimately led to their own flight after Operation Flash liberated Western Slavonia in May, 1995. As a result, Western Slavonia is now largely devoid of its former Serb minority and thousands of ethnic Serbs are refugees in Bosnia and Serbia. I first saw the region in June, 1999 and conducted field and archival work in 2001 and 2002.  I have converted, analyzed the published data from the 2001 census and have produced a set of maps of the change in ethnic composition in Croatia from 1991 to 2001. Preliminary results of my research were presented at the 2001 Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Division of the Association of American Geographers, Frostburg State University, Frostburg, MD, October 5, 2001, at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, Wednesday, March 20, 2002, and at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, March 6, 2003.  Publication is anticipated in 2004.

Disappearance of Nazi and Cold War landscapes in Central Europe - ongoing study of the attitude toward artifacts of the Nazi Era and Cold War in Germany, the Czech Republic, and Hungary. Of particular interest are the obliteration of Hitler's bunker in Berlin and his home and associated complex on the Obersalzberg (near Berchtesgaden in Bavaria) and sites in Austria associated with Hitler's childhood and early adulthood.  The dismantling of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain in Germany and the present lack of commemoration of the Prague Spring uprising and the Velvet Revolution (most notably a search for the "pink tank") in Prague and the 1956 Hungarian uprising in Budapest are some of the Cold War issues addressed.  The central question: how do you deal with sites from a past you would rather forget and how do you commemorate "victories" over a system that the vast majority of the populace either enthusiastically or at least tacitly supported?

Agroecology in the lower Rappahannock River Valley - ongoing collection and analysis of data on agriculture in and around Essex County, Virginia during the Colonial Period. This is intended to fill gaps in the data I collected and used in my dissertation and to extend the scope of that project beyond the Colonial Period. The primary focus at present is documenting the shift toward mixed farming and corn-for-export that occurred late in the Eighteenth Century. This is in preparation of publication of the work in book form.

Tracking Virginia and national election patterns - as I do every four years, I have mapped presidential primaries, presidential tracking polls, and the senatorial and presidential votes in Virginia and the US. This collection of computer-generated maps (MapInfo) is used for discussions in GEOG 201 - Elements of Geography and GEOG 353 - Geography of Virginia. All of these materials are posted on my website on the Longwood server:

http://www.lwc.edu/staff/dhardin/dh.htm (for 2001)
http://www.lwc.edu/staff/dhardin/Politics.htm (for 2000)

Travel to Central Europe, May 16-June 5, 2003 - Return to Bavaria, easten Germany, and Austria, with additional travel to Poland and Slovakia.  Purpose was to document what will be the final fate of the Berghof complex on the Obersalzberg, sites associated with Hitler's rise to power in Munich, and Austrian sites associated with Hitler's family, birth, boyhood, and early adult years in Vienna. Unfunded.

Travel to Central Europe, May 15-June 14, 2002 - Return to Bavaria, Austria, and Croatia, with additional travel to Romania and Hungary. Purpose was to continue documentation of the obliteration of Hitler's "Berghof'' home and the associated support complex on the Obersalzberg (near Berchtesgaden in Bavaria), visit and gather information on Hitler's birthplace (Braunau am Inns) and boyhood home (Leonding) in Austria, gather census data in Zagreb, minefield information in Sisak, and continue documenting destroyed settlements in Croatia's Western Slavonia. I took slides, digital imagery, and video, gathered government documents, and conducted more extensive interviews.  Preliminary results of this research have been presented at professional meetings and will be published in 2003 or 2004.  Supported by a Research Related Travel Grant of $4,000.

Travel to Central Europe, May 19-June 9, 2001 - Travel to Bavaria, Austria, and Croatia. Purpose was to document the obliteration of Hitler's "Berghof'' home and the associated support complex on the Obersalzberg (near Berchtesgaden in Bavaria), gather information on Salzburg and Vienna, and to gather census data in Zagreb, minefield information in Sisak, and document destroyed settlements in Croatia's Western Slavonia. I took slides, digital imagery, and video, gathered government documents, and conducted interviews.  Preliminary results of this research have been presented at professional meetings and will be published after the final 2001 census returns are released.  Unfunded.

Travel to Scotland, November 23-December 1, 1999 - Travel to the western section of the Scottish Highlands, Loch Ness, Stirling, and Edinburgh. Purpose was to collect materials on the cultural (initial Scot settlements, Antonine Wall, "Braveheart" country), physical (glacial valleys, salt and freshwater lochs, Great Glen), and economic (Highland farming) aspects of Scotland. I took slides and video and gathered publications.  Unfunded.

Travel to Eastern Europe, May 19-June 5, 1999 - Travel to Eastern Europe, covering major geographic features of Eastern Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria. Of particular concern were documenting Cold War landscapes in Berlin (Wall remnants, the actual Führerbunker location, Stasi headquarters), Prague, and Budapest and Teresienstadt and Auschwitz/Birkenau concentration camps. This was my first opportunity to see battle-damaged and deserted villages in Western Slavonia in person, enhancing my research into changes in the ethnic population in Croatia since 1991. I took slides and video and gathered publications.  Supported by a Research Related Travel Grant of $1,850.

Travel to Central Europe, June 15-July 5, 1998 - Travel to Central Europe, covering major geographic features of Germany, Switzerland, France, Austria, and Poland. Of particular concern were documenting Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps, remnants of the Iron Curtain, and the Führerbunker and Berlin Wall in Berlin. I took slides and video and gathered publications.  Supported by a Research Related Travel Grant of $2,500.

Travel to Northwest Europe, July 19-August 3, 1997 - Travel to Northwest Europe, covering major geographic features of southwestern Iceland, northwestern Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Northern France. This was in part to test the feasibility of writing a travel guide to World War One battlefields in Northern France and the significant World War Two battlefields in Northern France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Western Germany. I took slides and video and gathered publications.  Supported by a Research Related Travel Grant of $2,692.

Travel to the Pacific Northwest, July 13-27, 1996 - Travel to the Pacific Northwest, concentrating on the coastal areas west of the Cascade Range in Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. I took photographs of major geographic features of the region, especially volcanic geomorphology in Oregon and Washington, urban environments in Portland, greater Seattle, and Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia, and environmental zones from the Pacific Ocean to the High Desert of Oregon.  Supported by a Research Related Travel Grant of $2,250.

Travel to Upper New England and Quebec, July 17-25, 1995 - Travel to coastal and interior Maine, northern Vermont and New Hampshire, and the Province of Quebec, Quebec City, and Montreal.  Unfunded.

Travel to Arizona, Southern California, and Southern Nevada, March 6-13, 1992 - Travel to the Desert Southwest and California for the collection of images of different desert environments, human use and misuse of deserts, natural hazards in the Mediterranean environment of Southern California and desert environments in California, Nevada, and Arizona, and cultural features of the U.S.-Mexican border, the Los Angeles Basin, and the Desert Southwest in general.  Unfunded.

Research Related Travel Grant, Germany and Croatia, May 13-June 12, 2002 - $4,000
Research Related Travel Grant, Eastern Europe, May 19-June 5, 1999 - $1,850
Research Related Travel Grant, Central Europe, June 15-July 5, 1998 - $2,500
Research Related Travel Grant, Northwest Europe, July 19-August 3, 1997 - $2,692
Research Related Travel Grant, Pacific Northwest, July 16-29, 1996 - $2,250

Association of American Geographers
Southeastern Division, Association of American Geographers
Eastern Historical Geographers Association
Virginia Geographical Alliance
American Society for Environmental History

• Guest Speaker, post-election analysis (with maps), Chesterfield County Democratic Committee Meeting, November 7, 2001.
• Commentator, Lou Deane's "Newsroom" Program, WRVA 1140 AM, regarding Turkish earthquake, August 19, 1999.
• Commentator, Lou Deane's "Newsroom" Program, WRVA 1140 AM, regarding Farmville earthquake, October 21, 1998.
• "Geography: More Than Just Place-Names." Display in Longwood College Library, November 1-30, 1997.
• Chair, Phi Beta Kappa Exploratory Committee, 1995-1996.
• Contributing Lecturer, "Culture and Environmental Exploitation," Honors 295 -- An Environmental Primer, Spring, 1994.
• Moderator, "A Debate on Gays in the Military," ARC Residence Hall, February 8, 1993.
• Faculty Advisor, campus radio station WLCX, 1992-1995.
• Faculty Advisor, Longwood College Democrats, 1996-present.
• Faculty Advisor, Geography Club, 1991-1992.

 
REFERENCES

Dr. Ronald Foresta, Professor of Geography
Department of Geography
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee
865-974-6044

Dr. Edward Kinman, Assistant Professor of Geography
Natural Sciences Department
Longwood College
Farmville, Virginia 23909
434-395-2569

Dr. Lynn Ferguson, Professor of Biology and Earth Science
Natural Sciences Department
Longwood College
Farmville, Virginia 23909
434-395-2578