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Jerry "Joby" Bass, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

E-mail: joby@usm.edu
Office: Walker Science, Room 232D
Phone : (601) 266-4732
Fax : (601) 266-6219
Personal Webpage

Education

B.A. 1990 Louisiana State University
M.A. 1999 Louisiana State University
Ph.D. 2003 University of Texas at Austin


Teaching Interests

GHY 101World Regional Geography
GHY 103World Regions Through Film
GHY 315Sources, Techniques, and Analysis in Geography
GHY 331Cultural Geography
GHY 400/500Geography of Mississippi
GHY 435/535Historical Landscapes of North America
GHY 498/598Field Studies in Honduras
GHY 631/731Seminar in Cultural Biogeography
GHY 680/780History and Philosophy of Geographic Thought


Research Interests
Cultural landscapes, Human-environment Relationships, Cultural-historical Geography

I am a cultural and environmental geographer with abundant interests, primarily focused on understanding the complex relationships humans have with both the environment and with each other. I study cultural landscapes, with an eye to understanding change, variation, perception, and the larger forces operating behind these. Most of my interests hover around the intersections of culture, landscape, and environment, with particular emphases on cultural biogeography and ethnicity. Regionally, I focus on Latin America and the U.S. South.