CURRICULUM VITAE

David Hooson

ADDRESS

Department of Geography University of California Berkeley, CA 94720

Tel: (510) 642-5987 Fax: (510) 642-3370

BIRTH

25 April 1926. N. Wales, United Kingdom

EDUCATION

B.A. (1948) Oxford University M.A. (1950) Oxford University Ph.D. (1955) London University

WAR SERVICE

British “Fleet Air Arm,” mainly in South East Asia, 1944-46.

UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS

University of Glasgow, Scotland, 1954-56 University of Maryland, College Park, 1956-60 University of British Columbia, 1960-66 University of California, Berkeley, since 1966

ADMINISTRATIVE APPOINTMENTS

Chairman, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Berkeley, 1967-70

Chairman, Department of Geography, Berkeley, 1970-75

Dean of Social Sciences, Berkeley, 1977-80

Chairman, Senate Committee on the Status of Women and Ethnic Minorities, 1981- 82 2

Chairman, Commission on the History of Geographical Thought, International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science and International Geographical Union, 1980-1988

Acting Chairman, Department of Geography, Berkeley, 1985-86

FELLOWSHIPS

Institute of International Studies Fellowships, 1968 and 1973 Guggenheim, 1976 Humanities Research, 1980-81 Mellon Fellowship, 1984-85

HONORS

Honorary Corresponding Member, Royal Geographical Society, London June 2000 Berkeley Citation, May 12, 2001

MEMBERSHIPS

Association of American Geographers Institute of British Geographers American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies American Geographical Society

PUBLICATIONS

Books and Monographs:

1964 A New Soviet Heartland? D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., Princeton, N.J., 132 pp.

1966 The Soviet Union - A Systematic Regional Geography, University of London Press, 376 pp. Published in the U.S.A. as: The Soviet Union: People and Regions, Wadsworth, California.

1971 Climate and Man in the Soviet Union, Hicks, Smith, Ltd., Sydney, Australia, 32 pp.

1994 Geography and National Identity. (Editor and Contributor) Blackwells, Oxford, England, 391 pp.

Articles:

1958 “The Recent Growth of Population and Industry in Hertfordshire,” Transactions and Papers, No. 25, Institute of British Geographers, pp. 197-208.

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1959 “Some Recent Developments in the Content and Theory of Soviet Geography,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 49, pp. 73-82.

1959 “The New Pattern of Soviet Oil,” Geographical Review (New York), Vol. 49, pp. 421-423.

1959 “A Significant New Soviet Periodical,” Professional Geographer, pp. 16-17.

1960 “The Middle Volga - an emerging focal region in the Soviet Union,” Geographical Journal (London), Vol. 126, pp. 180-190.

1960 “The Distribution of Population as the Essential Geographical Expression,” Canadian Geographer, No. 17, pp. 10-20.

1962 “A New Soviet Heartland?” Geographical Journal (London), Vol. 128, pp. 19-29. This paper was also chosen for inclusion in Thought from the Learned Societies of Canada, 1961, W.J. Gage Ltd., Toronto, 1962, pp. 215-228.

1962 “The Soviet Union and the Geography Student,” Canadian Geographer, Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 78-82.

1962 “Methodological Clashes in Moscow,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 52, pp. 469-475.

1963 “The Geographical Validity of the Easterly Population Movements in the Soviet Union,” Occasional Papers, Canadian Association of Geographers (B.C. Division) No. 4, pp. 13-20.

1965 “Soviet Industrial Growth--where next?,” Survey (London), No. 57, pp. 111-124.

1965 Introduction to the booklet Studies in Soviet Energy Occasional Papers in Geography, No. 7, Canadian Association of Geographers, Vancouver, B.C.

1967 “Plan for the Ob River,” Geographical Magazine (London), April, pp. 977-979.

1968 “The Development of Geography in Pre-Soviet Russia,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 58, pp. 250-272.

1968 “The Growth of Cities in Pre-Soviet Russia,” in R.P. Beckinsale and J.M. Houston (eds.), Urbanization and its Problems: Essays in Honour of E.W. Gilbert, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 254-277.

1968 “The Straw Industry of the Chilterns in the Nineteenth Century,” The East Midland Geographer, Vol. 4, Part 6, No. 30, pp. 342-350.

1968 “Three Worlds of the Soviet Union,” Record of the New Zealand Geographical Society, No. 46, pp. 10-12.

1969 “Phases in the Twentieth Century Development of Geography in Russia and America: a comparison,” Proceedings, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 1, pp. 66- 69. 4

1972 Preface to E.W. Gilbert, British Pioneers in Geography, David and Charles, Newton Abbott, pp. 13-15.

1972 “Rejuvenating Regional Geography: ends and means,” Proceedings, 21st International Geographical Congress. Selected Papers, Vol. 4, pp. 91-94, Calcutta.

1972 “The Outlook for Regional Development in the Soviet Union,” invited discussion in the Slavic Review, Vol. 31, September, pp. 536-554 and 571-573.

1974 “The People of the U.S.S.R.,” Collier’s Encyclopedia, Vol. 22, pp. 591-596.

1975 “Comments” in Population and Scale, No. 1, Micro-populations, edited by L.A. Kosinski and J.W. Webb. International Geographical Union: Commission on Population Geography, Edmonton, pp. 42-43.

1976 “The Geographical Setting,” in An Introduction to Russian History (Companion to Russian Studies), Vol. 1, edited by R. Auty and D. Obolensky, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-48.

1976 “A Lonely Independence: New Zealand’s Changing Place in the World,” The Professional Geographer, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 35-39.

1976 “The U.S.S.R. from within and from afar,” (a review of several Russian and English books on the U.S.S.R.) Geographical Magazine, August, pp. 700-701.

1977 “The Unity of Geography in the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R.,” Geojournal, Vol. 1, No. 6, pp. 5-12.

1977 “Introduction,” to the English Edition of V.A. Anuchin’s Theoretical Problems of Geography, (edited by G. Demko and R. Fuchs), Ohio University Press, Ohio, pp. 1- 18.

1977 “Ideologie Politique et pensee geographique en Union Sovietique,” in Geographie et Theorie Politique (edited by A. Reynaud), Travaux de l’Institut de Geographie de Reims, No. 29-30, Reims, France, pp. 39-46.

1978 “Comments,” on the Symposium on the History of Geographical Thought, International Geographical Union, held in Leningrad, U.S.S.R. in 1976. Soviet Geography: Review and Translation, January, pp. 60-61.

1980 “The Role of the Historical Context in the Development of National Schools of Geography,” Organon (Warsaw), No. 14, pp. 163-165.

1980 “The Land and Natural Resources,” (of the Soviet Union) in Encyclopaedia Americana, Vol. 27, pp. 380-387.

1981 Chapter, “Carl O. Sauer,” in B. Blouet (ed.), The Origins of Academic Geography in the United States, Hamden, Connecticut, pp. 165-174.

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1981 “The People” (of the U.S.S.R.) in Collier’s Encyclopaedia, Vol. 22, pp. 591-595 (complete revision of the 1974 article).

1982 “Geography” in A. Brown, J. Fennell, M. Kaser, H. Willetts (eds.), The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Soviet Union, Cambridge University Press, England, pp. 265-266.

1983 “Climate” in L. Symons (ed.), The Soviet Union: A Systematic Geography, Hodder and Stoughton, London, pp. 38-51.

1983 “National Cultures and Academic Geography in an Urbanizing Age,” in J. Patten (ed.), The Expanding City: Essays in Honour of Jean Gottmann. Academic Press, London, pp. 157-178.

1984 “The Soviet Union” in P. Claval and R.J. Johnston (eds.), Geography Since the Second World War: An International Survey. Croom Helm, London, pp. 79-106.

1984 “Continuity and Change in Soviet Geographical Thought,” in G. Demko and R. Fuchs (eds.), Geographical Studies on the Soviet Union. Essays in Honor of Chauncy D. Harris. University of Chicago Press, pp. 11-27.

1984 “A French-American Geographical Encounter,” in The Professional Geographer, Vol. 36, No. 3, August, pp. 367-368.

1987 “Geography East and West” in Geojournal, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 203-209.

1987 “Geographical Thought in Comparative Perspective” in Tsukuba Studies in Human Geography (in Japanese, with English summary), Vol. XI, No. 3, pp. 247-259.

1987 “National Rootedness and the Variable Succes of World Geography” in “La Pensée Géographique” Organon (Poland) 20/21, 1984-85 (published 1987), pp. 205-207.

1988 “A Tribute to Walter Freeman 1908-1988” in Geographers: Bio-Bibliographies, Vol. 12, pp. vii-viii. Mansell, London.

1990 “The Return of Geography” in I.A. Bremmer and N.N. Naimark (ed.), Soviet Nationalities Problems. Stanford, Center for Russian and East European Studies, pp. 61-68.

1991 “China” and “US.S.R.” in G. Dunbar (ed.), Modern Geography: an Encyclopedic Survey. Garland, New York and London, pp. 31-32 and 182-183.

1991 “The World in the Round” in Newsletter, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, University of California, Berkeley, Spring, Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 1-11.

1991 “In Memoriam—Clarence Glacken 1909-1989” in Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 81, No. 1, pp. 152-158.

1992 “The I.G.U. Commission on the History of Geographical Thought,” Geojournal, Vol. 26, No. 2, pp. 216-217.

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1994 “Geography,” in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union, ed. by A. Brown et al., Cambridge University Press, pp. 297-98.

1996 “The New Political Geography in Russia: Antecedents and Applications,” in Geography and Professional Practice (V. Berdoulay and J. Van Ginkel, eds.), Utrecht, Netherlands, 1996, pp. 103-109.

1998 "James J. Parsons" in U.C. In Memoriam, pp. 127-129.

1998 "Visualizing the Caucasus: A Geographer's Perspective" in The Geopolitics of Oil, Gas and Ecology in the Caucasus and Caspian Basin, Symposium Proceedings, Berkeley.

1998 “The Geographical Identity of Portugal, with special reference to the Works of Stanislawski,” in Finisterra (Lisbon), XXXIII, 65, pp. 141-145.

1999 "Classics in Human Geography Revisited" (Tribute to Keith Buchanan), Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 23(2), pp. 255-257.

2000 “National Identity and Environmental Outrage, with special reference to the Post- Soviet Lands” in Géographie et Liberté: Melanges en hommage à Paul Claval (ed. J.R. Pitte and A.L. Sanguin), Paris, L’Harmattan, pp. 463-469.

2000 “Géographie, Aménagement et Milieu dans l’experience Russe,” in Milieu, colonisation et développement durable: perspectives geographiques sur l’amenagement, edited by V. Berdoulay and O. Soubeyran, Paris, pp. 131-137.

2000 “Bernard Nietschmann” (obituary), in California Monthly.

2000 Obituary for O.H.K. Spate 1911-2000, Geographical Review, Vol. 90, No. 4, pp. 629- 635.

2001 “Geography and Nationalism,” in The Encyclopaedia of Nationalism (edited by Athena Leoussi) Transaction Publishers, London, pp. 113-116.

2001 “Geography in Russia: Glories and Disappointments” in Gary Dunbar (ed.) Geography: Discipline, Profession and Subject since 1870 - an International Survey, Kluwer, Dordrecht, Netherlands, pp. 225-244.

2004 “Encounters with Mackinder: a personal memoir” in Geographical Journal (London), Vol. 170, December, pp. 377-379.

2005 “The Heartland—Then and Now” in Global Geostrategy: Mackinder and the Defence of the West (edited by Brian Blouet), Frank Cass, London and New York, pp. 165-172.

2007 “Débuts et fins: entre la Russie et La Royaume-Uni,” L’orbite de la géographie de Jean Gottmann. Paris: Société de la Géogaphie, pp. 260-267.

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Reviews:

1955 Review of: “The Oxford Region - a scientific and historical survey,” Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. 71, p. 60.

1955 Review of: “What the World Showed Me,” Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. 71, p. 120.

1961 Review of: U.S.S.R.: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture, by Thomas Fitzsimmons, Peter Maloff and John C. Fiske, Survey of World Cultures No. 7, Human Relations Area Files, New Haven Conn., Geographical Review, (New York), Vol. 51, pp. 595- 596, October.

1961 Review of: The Physical Geography of Asiatic Russia, by S.P. Suslov, translated by N. Gershevsky and edited by J.E. Williams, W.H. Freeman Co., San Francisco and London, 1961. Pacific Affairs, Vol. 34, pp. 302-303, Fall 1961, and Scottish Geographical Magazine, Vol. 77, p. 184, December.

1963 Review of: Perry McD. Collins, ed. by C. Vevier, Siberian Journey, Down the Amur to the Pacific 1856-7, University of Wisconsin Press, 1962, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 36, pp. 194-195, Summer.

1963 Review of: George B. Cressey, Soviet Potentials: A Geographic Appraisal, Syracuse University Press, in Geographical Review, Vol. 53, pp. 617-619, October.

1963 Review of: D. Bickmore (ed.), The Little Oxford Atlas, Oxford University Press, in Professional Geographer, Vol. 37, pp. 91-92, Spring.

1963 Review of: Jean Dollfus (ed.), Atlas of Western Europe, Société Europeenne et d’Information, Paris, in Professional Geographer, Vol. 15, p. 59.

1964 Review of: Yuri Semyonov, Siberia, Its Conquest and Development, International Publishers’ Representatives Ltd., Montreal, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 37, pp. 91-92, Spring.

1964 Review of: Norton Ginsburg, Atlas of Economic Development, University of Chicago Press, 1961, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 36, pp. 465-466, Winter 1963-1964.

1964 Review of: C.D. Harris (ed. of English edition), Soviet Geography: Accomplishments and Tasks, American Geographical Society Occasional Publication No. 1, New York 1962, in Slavic Review, Vol. 23, December, pp. 779-780.

1965 Review of: R.E. Pahl, Urbs in Rure: The Metropolitan Fringe Hertfordshire, London School of Economics and Political Science, Geographical Papers No. 2, London 1965, in Professional Geographer, Vol. 17, No. 6, November, p. 70.

1965 Review of: Paul E. Lydolph, Geography of the U.S.S.R., in Economic Geography, April, pp. 183-184.

1966 Review of: V.P. Tseplyaev (translated by A. Gourevitch), Forests of the U.S.S.R., New York, 1966, in Science, Vol. 154, pp. 374-375, October. 8

1966 Review of: H. Tupper, To The Great Ocean: Siberia and the Trans-Siberian Railway, Boston 1965, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 38, Nos. 3 & 4, Fall-Winter 1965-66, pp. 361-362.

1966 Review of: Colin McInnes, Australia and New Zealand, Life World Library, New York 1964, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 39, Nos. 1 & 2, Spring-Summer 1966, pp. 225- 226.

1967 Review of: V.P. Tseplyaev (translated by A. Gourevitch), Forests of the U.S.S.R., New York 1966, in Geographical Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, pp. 445-446.

1967 Review of: S.J. Eyre and G.R.J. Jones (eds.), Geography as Human Ecology, New York 1966, in Professional Geographer, Vol. 19, p. 304.

1968 Review of: Ward McNally, New Zealand - The Land and the People, A.S. Barnes Co., South Brunswick, N.J. 1966, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 40, Nos. 2 & 3, Fall-Winter, 1967-68, pp. 429-430.

1968 Review of: Violet Conolly, Beyond the Urals, Oxford University Press 1967, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 41, No. 3, Fall, p. 435.

1969 Review of: W.H. Parker, An Historical Geography of Russia, University of London Press 1968, in Professional Geographer, Vol. 21, No. 5, p. 365.

1970 Review of: J.R. Gibson, Feeding the Russian Fur Trade, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison 1969, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Vol. 60, December 1970, pp. 796-797.

1971 Review of: L. Dienes, Locational Factors and Locational Developments in the Soviet Chemical Industry, University of Chicago, Geography Department Research Papers No. 119, Chicago 1969, in Professional Geographer, Vol. 23, January 1971, p. 88.

1971 Review of: K.B. Cumberland, New Zealand, Aldine, Chicago 1970, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 44, Spring 1971, pp. 153-154.

1971 Review of: C. Osborne (ed.), Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, Praeger, New York 1970, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 44, Spring 1971, p. 155.

1971 Review of: T. McKnight, Australia’s Corner of the World: A Geographical Summation, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 1970, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 44, Spring 1971, pp. 155-156.

1971 Review of: G.T. Trewartha, A Geography of Population: World Patterns, Rand McNally, Chicago 1969, in Economic Geography, Vo. 47, No. 3, July 1971, pp. 459- 460.

1971 Review of: A. Meynier, Histoire de la Pensee Geographique en France, Paris 1969, in Geographical Review, vol. 61, No. 3, July 1971, pp. 459-460.

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1971 Review of: F. Gale and G.H. Lawton (eds.), Settlement and Encounter: Geographical Studies presented to Sir Grenfell Price, Oxford University Press, New York 1970, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 44, No. 2 Summer 1971, pp. 318-319.

1972 Review of: I.P. Gerasimov et al., Natural Resources of the Soviet Union: Their Use and Renewal, English edition edited by W.A.D. Jackson, W.H. Freeman and Co., San Francisco 1971, in Professional Geographer, 24(2):188.

1972 Review of: P. Bacon (ed.), Focus on Geography, Washington N.C.G.E. 1970, in Professional Geographer, August, pp. 289-290.

1972 Review of: W.G.V. Balchin (ed.), Geography: An Outline for the Intending Student, London 1970, in Professional Geographer, August, pp. 289-290.

1972 6 reviews in The Foreign Affairs 50-Year Bibliography (New Evaluations of Significant Books on International Relations, 1920-70) by B. Dexter (ed.), New York and London 1972, pp. 22-24 and 35.

1973 Review of: A. Buttimer, Society and Milieu in the French Geographic Tradition, A.A.G. Monograph No. 6, 1971, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, March, pp. 135-137.

1973 Review of: E. Stuart Kirby, The Soviet Far East, London 1971, in Geographical Review, October, Vol. 63, pp. 585-586.

1975 Review of: G.J. Demko and R.J. Fuchs (eds.), Geographical Perspectives in the Soviet Union: A Selection of Readings, Ohio State University Press, Columbus 1974, in Russian Review, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 341-342.

1978 Review of: M.E. Hamm (ed.), The City in Russian History, Kentucky University Press, 1976, in Annals of the Association of American Geographers, March, pp. 134- 136.

1978 Review of: R. Lewis, R.H. Rowland and R.S. Clem, Nationality and Population Change in Russia and USSR: An Evaluation of Census Data 1897-1910, New York 1976, in Russian Review, October, Vol. 37, No. 4, pp. 469-70.

1979 Review of: T. Shabad and V.L. Mote, Gateway to Siberian Resources (the B.A.M.) New York 1977, in Slavic Review, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 129, March.

1980 Review of: V.A. Anuchin, Osnovy prirodopolzovaniya: Teoreticheskie aspekt, Moscow 1978, in Soviet Geography - Review and Translation, Vol. 21, No. 4, April, pp. 232-234.

1981 Review of: J.W. House (ed.,), The U.K. Space: Resources, Environment and the Future, London 1977, in Geojournal, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 91-92.

1982 Review of: J. Bater, The Soviet City: Ideal and Reality, Vol. 72, No. 1, pp. 121-123.

1982 Review of: A.S. Whiting, Siberian Development and East Asia: Threat or Promise?, Stanford 1981, in Soviet Union, Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 249. 10

1983 Review of: M. Quaimi, Marxism and Geography, Oxford 1982, in Australian Geographer, November, Vol. 15, No. 6, pp. 441-442.

1984 Review of: O.H.K. Spate, Monopolists and Freebooters, London and Canberra 1983, in Journal of Historical Geography, Vol. 10, No. 3, July, pp. 325-326.

1984 Review of: W.H. Parker, Mackinder: Geography as an Aid to Statecraft, Oxford 1982, in Geographical Review, Vol. 74, No. 2, April, pp. 239-240.

1985 Review of: A. Buttimer (ed.), The Practice of Geography, Croom Helm, London and New York 1983, in Progress in Human Geography, December, 1985, pp. 605-606.

1986 Review of: G.M. Howe, The Soviet Union, London 1983 in The Professional Geographer, Vol. 30, No. 1, February, p. 117.

1993 Review of: D. Livingstone, The Geographical Tradition, Blackwells, Oxford, 1992 in Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Vol. 55, pp. 166-167.

1996 Review of: R.J. Johnston (ed.), The Challenge of Geography. A Changing World: A Changing Discipline (Oxford, 1993), in The Professional Geographer, Vol. 48(4), p. 472, November.

1999 Review of: J. Bater, Russia and the Post-Soviet Scene, London 1997 in Geographical Review Vol. 88(1), pp. 164-166.

1999 Review of: M. Lewis and K. Wigen, The Myth of Continents, University of California Press, 1997, in Geographical Review, Vol. 88 (2), pp. 323-325.

2000 Review of: G. Cubbitt (ed.) Imagining Nations, Manchester, 1998, in Journal of Historical Geography, vol. 26 (3), pp. 501-502.

2001 Review of: D.R. Weiner, A Little Corner of Freedom: Russian Nature Protection from Stalin to Gorbachev, University of California Press, 1999, in Left History, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 150-151.

2001 Review of: Susan Schulter, The Geographical Imagination in America, 1880-1950, Chicago University Press, 2001, in Geographical Review, Vol. 91(4), October, pp. 735-737.

2004 Review of: R. Johnston and M. Williams (eds.), A Century of British Geography, Oxford, 2003 in Annals, Association of American Geographers, Vol. 94(4), December, pp. 1006-1007.

Other:

1984 Newsletter No. 5 of the Working Group on the History of Geographical Thought (IGU and IUHPS), Editor and Contributor, April 1984.

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1985 Report on the Geneva Symposium on the History of Geographical Thought in Actes du Congrès (25th International Geographical Congress) Paris, 1985, pp. 176-177.

1986 Newsletter No. 6 of the I.G.U. Working Group on the History of Geographical Thought. Editor and Contributor, March 1986.

1988 Newsletter No. 7 of the I.G.U. Commission on the History of Geographical Thought. Editor and Contributor, May.

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