Department of Geography and Planning


Ms. Deborah King
Visiting Assistant Professor

Office: 421-B CAS
Tel: 330-972-2394
Fax: 330-972-6080
Email:dpking@uakron.edu

Education

Ph. D. Course work, Secondary Education, The University of Akron
M.A., Geography, The University of Georgia
B.S., Geography, Ohio University

Employment
Instructor and Undergraduate Advisor, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 2000-present

Part-time instructor, Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, 1996 – 2000

Lecturer, Geography Workshops for Teachers K through 12, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio (with Dr. Vern Harnapp), 1979 – 1994

Supervisor, Laboratory for Cartographic and Spatial Analysis, The University of Akron, Akron, Ohio (general faculty member; added teaching responsibilities), 1977 – 1988

Professional Publications


Harnapp, Vern and Debbie King.  1991.  A New Look at Making Raised-Relief Maps in the Classroom.  Journal of Geography.  90:241-244.        

Kent, Robert B., editor (Monroe, Nash and King, Associate Editors). 1992. Region in Transition: An Economic and Social Atlas of Northeast Ohio. Akron, Ohio: The University of Akron Press.

Walls, Robert E. And George H. Schoemaker, editors. 1989.  The Old Traditional Way of Life:  Essays in Honor of Warren E. Roberts.

“Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: Determining the Disappearance Rate of Agricultural Structures in Pike County, Ohio” (Allen Noble and Deborah Phillips King). Bloomington, Indiana: Trickster Press.  272-277.

Professional Membership

National Council for Geographic Education

Courses Taught

3350:100 Introduction to Geography
3350:305 Maps & Map Reading
3350:340 Cartography
3350:350 Geography of the U.S. & Canada
3350:496 Field Research Methods
3350:499 Career Assessment


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