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Wilbur Zelinsky

Department Affiliation:  Geography
Education: PhD, Geography, UC-Berkeley, 1953
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POSITION TITLE:  Professor Emeritus of Geography and Demography

RESEARCH INTERESTS:  Cultural and social geography; historical geography of North America; population geography.

HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS: 

1993 John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize

2001 Cullum Medal, American Geographical Society


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS: 

Zelinsky, W. and B.A. Lee (1998). "Heterolocalism: An Alternative Model of the Sociospatial Behaviour of Immigrant Ethnic Communities." International Journal of Population Geography 4(4):281-298. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

Zelinsky, W. (2001). The Enigma of Ethnicity: Another American Dilemma. University of Iowa Press.

Zelinsky, W. (2001). "The Geographer as Voyeur." Geographical Review 91(1/2):1-8. |Journal Home Page|

Zelinsky, W. (2001). "The Uniqueness of the American Religious Landscape." Geographical Review 91(3):565-585. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

Zelinsky, W. (2004). "America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention?." Professional Geographer 56(1):142. |Journal Home Page|

Zelinsky, W. (2004). "Globalization Reconsidered: The Historical Geography of Modern Western Male Attire." Journal of Cultural Geography 22(1):83-134. |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

Zelinsky, W. (2007). "The Gravestone Index: Tracking Personal Religiosity across Nations, Regions, and Periods." Geographical Review 97(4):441-446. |Full Text| |Abstract| |Journal Home Page|

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