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College of A&GS | Karl OffenAppointments at the University of Oklahoma: Associate Professor of Geography, 2006-Present Courses: GEOG 2603, World Regional Geography Education: Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin, 1999. Publications:
(with J. Dym) eds., Mapping Latin America: Space and Society, 1492-2000 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010). "Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia," In Between Race and Place: Blacks and Blackness in Central America and the Mainland Caribbean, edited by Lowell Gudmundson and Justin Wolfe (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010). (with M. Finley-Brook) "Bounding the Commons: Land Demarcation in Northeastern Nicaragua," Bulletin of Latin American Research 28 (2009): 343-363. "El mapeo de la mosquitia colonial y las practicas espaciales de los pueblos mosquitos," Mesoamérica 50 (2008): 1-36. "Creating Mosquitia: Mapping Amerindian Spatial Practices in Eastern Central America, 1629-1779," Journal of Historical Geography 33 (2007): 254-282. "La Nueva Política Geográfica Indígena y Negra en América Latina," Wani 43 (2005): 10-27. "Raza y Lugar en La Mosquitia Colonial, 1600-1787," Wani 40 (2005): 6-32. "The Geographical Imagination, Resource Economies, and Nicaraguan Incorporation of the Mosquitia, 1838-1909," In Territories, Commodities and Knowledges: Latin American Environmental History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by Christian Brannstrom (London: Institute of Latin American Studies, 2004): 50-89. "The Territorial Turn: Making Black Communities in Pacific Colombia," Journal of Latin American Geography 2 (2003): 43-73. "The Sambo and Tawira Miskitu. The Colonial Origins and Geography of Miskitu Differentiation, Eastern Nicaragua and Honduras," Ethnohistory 49 (2002): 319-372. "Ecología Cultural Miskita en los años 1650-1850," Wani 30 (2002): 42-59. "British Logwood Extraction from the Mosquitia: The Origin of a Myth," Hispanic American Historical Review 80 (2000): 113-135 Select Awards: 2009 John Carter Brown Library Research Fellowship. 2006 Helen and John S. Best American Geographical Society Library Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. 2004 Fulbright Teaching/Research Award for Colombia, Bogotá. 2003 J. B. Harley Research Fellowship in the History of Cartography, London. 1995-96 Fulbright Dissertation Research Fellowship for Nicaragua. Book Reviews: Measuring the New World: Enlightenment Science and South America, by Neil F. Safier, University of Chicago Press, 2008. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization (2010). Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660, by Linda M. Heywood and John K. Thornton, Cambridge University Press, 2007; and From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America in the Early Seventeenth Century, by Linda A. Newson and Susie Minchin, Brill, 2007. Journal of Historical Geography 35 (2009): 205 - 208. Mapping and Imagination in the Great Basin: A Cartographic History, by Richard V. Francaviglia, University of Nevada Press, 2005. The New Mexico Historical Review 83 (2008): 248-249. In Search of Maya Sea Traders, by Heather McKillop, Texas A&M University Press, 2005. The Geographical Review 98 (2008): 135-137. Landscapes of Power and Identity: Comparative Histories in the Sonoran Desert and the Forests of Amazonia from Colony to Republic, by Cynthia Radding Duke University Press, 2005. Journal of Historical Geography 33 (2007): 925-927. Atlas de Mapas Históricos de Honduras / Honduras, An Atlas of Historical Maps, by William V. Davidson, Fundación Uno, 2006. The Geographical Review 97 (2007): 131-133. Historical Atlas of Central America, by Carolyn Hall and Héctor Pérez Brignolli, with John V. Cotter, University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. Masters of All They Surveyed. Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado, by D. Graham Burnett, University of Chicago Press, 2000. Journal of Latin American Geography 1 (2002): 85 – 87. Central America. A Natural and Cultural History, edited by Anthony G.
Coates, foreword by Olga F. Linares, Yale University Press, 1997. The Green Republic. A Conservation History of Costa Rica, by Sterling Evans, University of Texas Press, 1999. Journal of Cultural Geography 20 Cartographic Encounters: Perspectives on Native American Mapmaking and Map Use, edited by G. M. Lewis, University of Chicago Press, 1998. American Studies International 38 (2000): 120 – 121. Advances in Historical Ecology, edited by William Balée, Columbia University Press, 1998. Journal of Ethnobiology 19 (1999): 68 – 70. The Language of Landscape, by Anne Whiston Spirn, Yale University Press, 1998. Journal of Cultural Geography 18 (1999): 141 – 142. New Worlds for All. Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America, by Colin G. Calloway, John Hopkins University Press, 1997. American Studies International 35 (1997): 89 – 90. Select Conference Papers: "Mapeando las Márgenes," Session organizer: Mapping Latin America, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Granada, Nicaragua, Jan. 7-9, 2009. (With Mary Brook), "Bounding the Commons: The Political Ecology of Land Demarcation in Northeastern Nicaragua," XXVII Internations Congress of the Lain American Studies Association, Montréal, Canada, September 6-8, 2007. (With Mary Brook), "Land Demarcation in Northeastern Nicaragua: Three Case Studies," 103rd Annual Metting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, California, April 17-21, 2007. "Mapping Mosquitia: Mosquito Indian Spatial Practices and European Spatial Constructions in Eastern Central America, 1600-1778," Session co-Organizer: Mapping Latin America, XXVI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 15-18, 2006. "Between Empires and States: Writing the Social into the Cartographic History of Mosquitia," Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Morelia, Mexico, October 26-28, 2005. "Between Empires: A Spatial History of the Mosquitia, 1600-1779," Conference & Workshop: Social Histories of Space in Latin America, Yale University, October 21-23, 2005. "O Mapeas o te Mapean: La Nueva Territorialidad Indígena en América Latina,” II Ciclo Annual de Conferencias de Geografíá Espacio, Región y Territorio, Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia, October 28-29, 2004. "Race and Place in Colonial Mosquitia," An International Conference: Between Race and Place: Blacks and Blackness in Central America and the Mainland Caribbean, Tulane University , November 12-13, 2004. "Historias que no son todavía historia : Recursos naturales y pueblos indígenas en la mosquitia nicaragüense," Paper to be presented at the II Simposio de Historia Ambiental Americana, "Hacia una historia ambiental de América Latina y el Caribe," Havana, Cuba, October 25-27, 2004. "Mapping the Isthmus: The Politics and Geography of Central American Cartography," Presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 14-19, 2004. "Maps, Autonomy, and Indigenous Lands in Eastern Nicaragua." Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Tucson, Arizona, January 4-8, 2003. "Indigenous Autonomy and Nature Conservation in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective." Paper presented at the 98th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, California, March 19-23, 2002. "Ethnic Identity and the Mapping Process: Demarcating Indigenous Lands in Latin America." Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, February 6, 2002. "Geography and Nation: Incorporating the Nicaraguan Mosquitia, 1840-1912." Workshop on Latin American Environmental History, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, London, November 2-3, 2001. "Moravian Evangelism and Miskitu Identity in Eastern Nicaragua." Paper presented at the XXIII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, September 6-8, 2001. "Indigenous Revitalization Movements and Political Ecology in Latin America." Paper presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, New York, Feb. 27 - March 3, 2001. "Miskitu Autonomy in Historical and Ethnogeographical Perspective." Conference Latin America's Indigenous Peoples: Cultural Diversity and Globalization, University of Kansas, Lawrence, November 10-11, 2000. "Social Mapping, Identity Politics, and the Cultural Landscape among the Miskitu Indians." Paper presented at the 96th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, April 4-8, 2000. "Maps, Mapping, and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Contemporary Issues in Historical Perspective," Organizer and chair, Round Table Discussion, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers 2000, Austin, Texas, January 6-8, 2000. "The Mythical Landscape: Indians, Nature, and Geography in the Historiography of Eastern Nicaragua." Presented at the XXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 24-26, 1998. "Miskitu Ethnogenesis and English Colonialist Ambitions in the Western Caribbean, 1700-1786." Presented in a special session entitled "Seeing the Americas anew" in memory of James J. Parsons at the 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, March 25-29, 1998. "Interpreting the Mayangna Past: The View from Wasakin, Northeastern Nicaragua." Presented at the 93rd Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Fort Worth, April 1-5, 1997. "Paisajes del Desarrollo y la Conservaci?n en el Discurso Nacional: El Caso de SI-A-PAZ, Nicaragua." Presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, January 4-6, 1996. "Non-timber Forest Resource Economies of Eastern Nicaragua." Presented at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March 29 -April 2, 1994. Select Experience: Consultant, Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2005). Fulbright Scholar, La Universidad de los Andés and La Universidad Nacional, Bogotá, Colombia (2004). Research Associate, Central America and Caribbean Research Council, Austin, Texas (1997). Research Associate, Centro de Investigación y Documentación de la Costa Atlántica (CIDCA), Bilwi and Managua, Nicaragua (1995-96). Research Associate, Center of Tropical Ecology, Universidad de Centroamérica (UCA) and the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, San Carlos and Managua, Nicaragua (1991-92). U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer, Sierra Leone, West Africa, 1986-1987.
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