Geoffrey L. Buckley

Geoffrey Buckley, portrait
Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Director of Experiential Learning, Honors Tutorial College; Professor of Geography
35 Park Place, Room 204, Athens Campus
Geography
buckleg1@ohio.edu

Please note: Dr. Buckley is currently serving in the Honors Tutorial College and is not accepting graduate students at this time.

Education

Ph.D., University of Maryland

M.A., University of Oregon

B.A., Connecticut College

Research

  • Environmental justice
  • Historical geography
  • Public lands
  • Urban sustainability

Prior to moving to the Honors Tutorial College, Geoff taught for 24 years in the Department of Geography. Over the course of his career, he has published more than 50 articles and book chapters, and authored or edited six books, including (with Chris Post and Alyson Greiner, 2023), (with Yolonda Youngs, 2018), and (with Craig Colten, 2014). His current research explores the career of Arthur E. Demaray, who rose through the ranks of the National Park Service to become the agency鈥檚 fifth director.

Courses Taught

  • HC 2905: Road Trip: The Epic American Journey
  • HC 2905: Parks and Recreation

Representative Publications

Buckley, G.L., N. Finnicum, M. O鈥橫alley, J. Bowie, and Y. Youngs. In press. Learning by Doing: Building Place-Based Experiential Learning into the Curriculum. Honors in Practice 21.

Post, C.W., A.L. Greiner, and G.L. Buckley, eds. 2023. The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape. London: Routledge.

Dickerman, E., and G.L. Buckley. 2022. Promoting Diversity at Cuyahoga Valley National Park. Environmental Justice 16 (2): 162-170.

Pickett, S.T.A., et al. 2020. t. Bioscience. 

Buckley, G.L., and Y. Youngs, eds. 2018. The American Environment Revisited: Environmental Historical Geographies of the United States. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Grove, J.M., et al. 2018. . Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108 (2): 524-537.

Buckley, G.L. 2018. Rethinking Fountainbridge: Honoring the Past and Greening the Future. In: Explorations in PLACE Attachment, ed. Jeffrey S. Smith, 197-210. London: Routledge.

Buckley, G.L., C.G. Boone, and J.M. Grove. 2017. The Greening of Baltimore鈥檚 Asphalt Schoolyards. The Geographical Review 107 (3): 516-535.

Selected Student Projects

Meghan Little, M.S. Environmental Studies (Thesis: 鈥淐onservation and Compliance: A Case Study in Kosovo鈥檚 Bjeshk毛t e Nemuna National Park,鈥 May 2019)

Natalie Mumich, M.A. Geography (Thesis: 鈥淕reater Canyonlands: A Contested Landscape in Southern Utah,鈥 May 2019)

Tatyana Pashibin, M.S. Environmental Studies (Thesis: 鈥淓nvironmental Perceptions of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, 1961-1971,鈥 May 2019)

Meredith Stone, M.A. Geography (Thesis: 鈥淒茅cor-racial: Defining and Understanding Street Art as it Relates to Racial Justice in Baltimore, Maryland,鈥 May 2017)

Jillian Prusa, M.A. Geography (Thesis: 鈥淩efurbishing the Rust Belt: Vacant Land Reuse in Baltimore, Maryland and Cleveland, Ohio,鈥 December 2014)

James Lloyd, M.A. Geography (Thesis: 鈥淐ommunity Development, Research, and Reinvestment: The Struggle Against Redlining in Washington, DC, 1970 鈥 1995,鈥 August 2012)