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James R. Shortridge
Professor
Office: 209 Lindley Hall
Phone: 785-864-5539
Email: shortrid@ku.edu
- Ph.D., University of Kansas (1972)
Vita (pdf) |
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Research Interests and Current Projects |
| Regional identity; Great Plains and Midwest Studies. |
| Currently writing a historical geography of Kansas City. |
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Courses Taught and Teaching Awards |
| GEOG 390: Geography of the U.S. & Canada |
| GEOG 397: Geography of Kansas and the Plains |
| GEOG 576: Cultural Geography of the U.S. |
| GEOG 805: Introduction to Graduate Study |
| GEOG 970 Seminar: Historical Geography |
| GEOG 970 Seminar: Sense of Place |
| Awards |
| Outstanding Educator Award (KU Chapter of Mortar Board), 1979 and 1997 |
| KU Distinguished Teaching Award, 1984 |
| Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 1999 |
| Undergraduate Teaching Award, Center for Teaching Excellence, KU 2000 |
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Publications During the Last 5 Years |
| Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004) |
| "The 'Missing' Railroad Cities Along the Union Pacific and Santa Fe Lines in Kansas," Kansas History 26 (2003): 186-205 |
| "Images and Icons," interpretive essay for Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, ed. David Wishart (Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2004), pp. 373-77. |
| "A Cry for Help: KansasFreeLand.com," Geographical Review 94(2004): 530-40. |
"Regional Image and Sense of Place in Kansas," Kansas History 28(2005): 202-19. |
| "Images of the Midwest," interpretive essay for The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, ed. Richard Sisson et al. (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2006), pp 57-60. |
| "Edward Miller's Town: The Reconceptualization of Pleasant Hill by the Pacific Railroad of Missouri," Missouri Historical Review 102 (2007), 45 p. mss in press. |
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Other Significant Publications |
| Kaw Valley Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide to Northeastern Kansas (Lawrence, Univ. Press of Kansas, 1988). |
| The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1989). |
| Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 1995). |
| The Taste of American Place: A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods (with Barbara G. Shortridge) (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998). |
| Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell's Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922 (Lawrence: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2000). |
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