Department of Geography

Job Posting

The Department of Geography at the University of Minnesota seeks a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor or full-time, tenured Associate Professor in Bio-Physical Geography with a focus on environmental variability and change, broadly defined, and with expertise in analytical, quantitative, and/or modeling techniques. For the full job description and to apply online, go to the following websites:

• Assistant Professor posting
• Associate Professor posting

News

• Fred Lukermann

  Professor Emeritus Fred E. Lukermann, a renowned member of our faculty and former dean of CLA, passed away September 1, 2009 from complications after a fall while returning home from his cabin on Lake Vermilion. A Minneapolis native, born December 9, 1921, Fred graduated from Roosevelt High School in 1940 and entered the University of Minnesota the following fall. After service in the U.S. Army, he returned to the University, earning his B.S., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees.

  Fred joined the University of Minnesota's geography faculty in the early 1950s. The Geography Department steadily achieved national and international prominence, and, as chair of the department, Fred nurtured a pervasive spirit of wide-ranging and creative intellectual inquiry.

  Fred assumed several leadership and administrative roles at the University of Minnesota. In addition to the chair of Geography, Fred served as associate dean for social sciences in the College of Liberal Arts; assistant vice president for academic affairs; and dean of CLA from 1978-1989. Working with CLA Dean E. W. Ziebarth and University Vice President Jerry Shepherd, Fred was instrumental in establishing the Departments of African American & African Studies, American Indian Studies, Chicano Studies, the Urban Studies Program, the School of Public Affairs (later renamed the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs), and the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

  Along with his inspired teaching, generous advising of graduate students, and creative scholarly output, Fred pursued a life-long interest in the proto-geography in Classical Greece, in the development of modern geographic thought and practice within the history of science, in the historical geography of North America, and in cultural pluralism.

  Memorials in Fred's honor may be sent to the Fred and Barbara Lukermann Geography Fellowship (# 6737) at the University of Minnesota Foundation, McNamara Alumni Center, 200 Oak Street, Suite 500 Minneapolis, MN 55455-2010.

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Upcoming Events

• • The Future of the Global Common: "Reproducing the common."
  • 11/13/2009 3:15 PM
  • Location: 445 Blegen Hall
• • John Borchert Lecture
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  • Location: Cowles Auditorium Hubert H. Humphrey Center
• • The Future of the Global Common: a talk by Ron Greene
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