Dunbar, Gary S(eamans)

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DUNBAR, Gary S(eamans)

DUNBAR, Gary S(eamans). American, b. 1931. Genres: Geography. Career: Longwood College, Farmville, VA, instructor in geography and history, 1956-57; University of Virginia, Charlottesville, visiting assistant professor, 1957-58, assistant professor, 1958-62, associate professor of geography, 1962-67, department chair, 1963-67; University of California, Los Angeles, visiting associate professor, 1967, associate professor, 1968-70, professor of geography, 1970-88, professor emeritus, 1988-; Ahmadu Bello University, Nigeria, visiting professor, 1965-67; member of summer faculty, University of Manitoba, 1961, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, 1962, McMaster University, 1963, and York University, 1968; State University of New York, College at Oneonta, adjunct lecturer, 1997; New York State Historical Association, member of editorial board, 1997-. Publications: Historical Geography of the North Carolina Outer Banks, 1958; Elisee Reclus, Historian of Nature, 1978; (comp.) A Biographical Dictionary of American Geography in the Twentieth Century, 1992, 2nd ed., 1996; The History of Geography: Collected Essays, 1996. EDITOR: The History of Geography: Translations of Some French and German Essays, 1983; The History of Modern Geography: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works, 1985; Modern Geography: An Encyclopedic Survey, 1991; Geography: Discipline, Profession and Subject since 1870, 2001. Contributor of articles and reviews to geography and history journals. Address: 13 Church St, Cooperstown, NY 13326, U.S.A. Online address: [email protected]

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