Philip J Gersmehl

Contact Me

gersmehl@umn.edu

Affiliations

• Geography, Environment and Society

Educational Background & Specialties

Specialties

• geogrpahic education
• spatial cognition
• North America
• physical geography

Courses Taught

• Geog 5775 - Geographic Education
• Geog 8003 - Proseminar: Historical Geography
• Environmental Systems

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Principal Investigator: direct national curriculum project , 1992 - 2007

Research

• Spatial cognition: how do children learn geography, 2002

Outreach

• State Dept of education: review geography standards, 2003 - 2004
• Northstar: cooperate with school, 1999 - 2004

Publications

• The ARGUS CD: Multimedia Units for Regional Geography. Gersmehl, Philip, Association of American Geographers, 1998.
• Putting Information in Perspective: Capitals Gains and the California Dilemma. Gersmehl, Philip, Journal of Geography, 96, pp. 235-242, 1997.
• The Montgomery County Line and the Hosmer Silt Loam: A Microcosm of American Farm Policy Problems. Gersmehl, Philip, Geographical Snapshots of North America, 1991.
• Bonanza for the Land Miners:A Modern Western Saga. Gersmehl, Philip, Images of the American West, Amsterdam: Free University Press, pp. 81-98, 1989.
• The Data, the Reader, and the Innocent Bystander: A Parable for Map Users. Gersmehl, Philip, The Professional Geographer, 37, pp. 329-334, 1985.
• ARGWorld multimedia package. Gersmehl, Philip, Holt Rinehart and Winston, 2003.
• Teaching Geography. Gersmehl, Philip, Guilford Press, Author, 2005.

Awards

• College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, 1985
• NCGE Excellence in Media award, 2001
• AAG Grosvenor Award, 2002
• AAAS Fellow, 2004