Program History
Geography has been a vibrant program at James Madison University for almost 80 years. Led by faculty with a wide array of interests and passions, the discipline has contributed through teaching and research to the university, the community, and the wider world throughout that time.
Recognizing the integrated, problem-focused nature of the discipline of geography, the program joined the Department of Integrated Science and Technology in 2001. From this position of collaboration and with new opportunities opened to geography majors and minors, the program has thrived. Geography students are some of the most active, engaged, and experienced graduates at the university.
With new priorities at JMU focusing on environmental questions such as sustainability, and through wider needs for technically trained, globally educated, highly skilled graduates, the Geography Program has as critical place in our education today.
Announcements
- Upcoming great study abroad opportunities for geographers: Peru, London, The Philippines, Malta and elsewhere: see OIP for more information…More >
- Dr. Henry Way and Dr. Zack Bortolot were awarded a Freddie Mac grant to develop a new course with the College of Business: a Geography Entrepreneurship Studio.
- Dr. Carole Nash has been awarded her PhD from American University, with a Distinction! Her dissertation title was: “Modeling Uplands: Landscape and Prehistoric Native American Settlement Archaeology in the Virginia Blue Ridge Foothills.”
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