Scott Pusich

Office: 219A Lindley
Phone: 864-5544
Email: pusich@gmail.com

• B.A., Sociology/Business, UCLA (1988)
• M.S., Geography, Florida State University (1991)
  Thesis: Political Boundaries and Ethnic Nationalism in Yugoslavia, 1918-1990.

Publication

"The Case for Regionalism in Croatia." Book chapter in Reconstructing the Balkans: A Geography of the New Southeastern Europe, Derek Hall and Darrick Danta (eds.), 1996.

Presentations

"The Territorial Base: A Geography of Ground-Up State Building." AAG annual meeting, 2007, San Francisco, CA.

"Deconstructing the Territorial State: The Case of the Former Yugoslavia." AAG annual meeting, 2005, Denver, CO.

"Speaking Small Truths to Large Powers: Geopolitical Aspects of Leopold Kohr's Theory of Human Scale." AAG annual meeting, 2004, Philadelphia, PA.

"Anarchy, Breakdown, Chaos, Decay, Entropy: Unnatural States?" AAG annual meeting, 2003, New Orleans, LA.

"Globalization and the Patriarchal State: The Case of Indonesia." AAG annual meeting, 2002, Los Angeles, CA.

"No Quick Cure: Croatia Awakens to a Nationalist Hangover." AAG annual meeting, 2001, New York, NY.

"Reform or Retreat: Regional Economic Development in Post-Communist Romania." AAG annual meeting, 2000, Pittsburgh, PA.

"Changes in the Wood Processing Industry in Post-Communist Romania." AAG annual meeting, 1997, Forth Worth, TX.

"The Prut Runs through It: Independence and Identity in Moldova." AAG annual meeting, 1996, Charlotte, NC.

"Democracy and Demagoguery: Electoral Geography in Croatia, 1990-1993." AAG annual meeting, 1995, Chicago, IL.

"The Case for Regionalism in Croatia." AAG annual meeting, 1994, San Francisco, CA.

"Ethnicity and the Nation-State in Yugoslavia." AAG annual meeting, 1991, Miami, FL.

Miscellany
Fulbright Fellowship: Iasi, Romania (Sep. 1995--Dec. 1996)

GP/RM GeoBowl team member, AAG annual meeting, 2004, Philadelphia, PA (honorable mention: sixth place individual score)