Joseph L. Scarpaci, Professor of Geography, scarp@vt.edu
Book review editor: Journal of Latin American Geography
Office: Femoyer 225
Phone: 540-231-7504
At Virginia Tech Since: 1989
Education: Ph.D., University of Florida, 1985, Geography (Minors: Sociology; Certificate Latin American Studies). M.S., The Pennsylvania State University, 1978, Geography (Minor: Sociology). B.A. Rutgers University, 1976 (Minor: Agronomy, Cook College - Rutgers University).
Research Interests:
International Outreach:
- American Geographical Society, Bowman Expedition, Antilles Project (Cuba, Haiti and Dominican Republic; sponsored research with Korine Kolivras and Bill Galloway), 2006-2007)
- Senior Fulbright Specialist, Urban and Regional Planning/Policy, Montevideo, Uruguay, @ ORT Uruguay, May 2006
- Nontimber Forest Products Research in Bolivia
- December
2003 Cultural Trip to Cuba (Note: All Cuba short-term programs (less than 10 weeks) have been prohibited by Executive Presidential Order since June 2004)
- Student trip to Cuba, December 27, 2003,
to January 7, 2004.
- Student Trip to Cuba, May 23 - June
7, 2004
Classes Recently Taught:
- GEOG 5224 Tourism and Sustainability (graduate seminar, Fall 2006)
- GEOG 3224 The U.S. City (undergraduate class, Spring 2008)
- GEOG 3404 Geography of Middle America (Spring, 2008)
- GEOG 4984/5984: Environmental and Social Sustainability in
the
Dominican Republic, Part of Culture, History and the Environment in the Caribbean, Spring 2006 (Program Coordinator)
- GEOG 5204 (UAP 5204/SOC 5644): Geography of Third World Development
- GEOG 4404 (NR/UAP/ALS 4404): Approaches to International Development
- GEOG 4984: Special Study--Geography of North America
- GEOG 4984/5984: Special Study--Urban Design and Planning in
Cuba
Books and Edited Works since 2000:
- Fortchoming. Cuban Landscapes (with Armando Portela). New York: Guilford Press (expected printing late 2008 or early 2009)
- 2007. Cuba in Transition, Vol. 17, Cuba in Transition. Vol. 17, Washington: Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 542 pp. (in press)
- 2006. Pittsburgh and The Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a Post-Industrial Age. Edited by J. L. Scarpaci (with K. Patrick).
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- 2005. Scarpaci, J.L. Plazas and Barrios: Heritage Tourism and Globalization in the Latin
American Centro Histórico. Tucson: University
of Arizona Press
- 2003 Pérez-López, J. and Scarpaci, J.L. Editors, Cuba in Transition. Vol. 13. Washington, D.C.: Association
for the Study of the Cuban Economy, 342 pp.
- 2002 Scarpaci, J.L., Segre, R., and Coyula, M. Havana: Two
Faces of the Antillean Metropolis. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, Revised Edition. Nominated for the
Lewis Mumford Award, 2003.
- Selected book-review excerpts on Havana: Two Faces of the Antillean Metropolis
- 2000 Scarpaci, J. L. "On the Transformation of the Socialist
City in a Post-Soviet Era." Urban Geography, Vol.
21, No. 8. Guest Editor and author or co-author of three of six
essays examining changes in the urban and political geography
of Warsaw, Ho Chi Minh, various Chinese cities, and Havana.
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