Past Dissertations - Pre-2000

1999

Merrill, Heather. “Speaking Subjects: Remaking Feminism and Race in the New Migrant Europe” 

Randlett, Victoria. “Atomic Oasis: Las Vegas in its Golden Age, 1946-1958” 

McCarthy, James Patrick. “The Political and Moral Economies of Wise Use” 

McAfee, Kathleen Elaine. “Selling Nature to Save It? Biodiversity and the Rise of Green Developmentalism” 

Ross, Amy Jeanette. “The Body of Truth: Negotiated Transitions and Truth Commissions in Guatemala and South Africa” 

Sturgeon, Tim J. “Turn-Key Production Networks: Industry Organization, Economic Development, and the Globalization of Electronics Contract Manufacturing” 

1998

Brechin, Gray. “Imperial San Francisco: The Environmental Impact of Urban Elites Upon the Pacific Basin” 

Johnson, Sharon Grace. “Oaks at the Edge: Land Use Change in the Foothill Woodlands of the Central Sierra Nevada, California” 

Gardner, Florence. “Redefining Flexibility: How Temporary and Contract Work Are Changing Employment Relation” 

Jones, Jennifer. “Unnatural Developments: Gendered Spaces and Childbirth Places in the Dominican Republic” 

Walker, Barbara Louise. “Sisterhood and Seine-Nets: Engendering the Development, Science, and Conservation of Ghana’s Marine Fishery” 

1997

Cochrane, Michelle. “The Social Construction of Knowledge(s) on HIV and AIDS: With a Case Study of the History and Practices of AIDS Surveillance Activities in San Francisco”

Hsu, Jinn-Yuh. “A Late Industrial District? Learning Networks in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan” 

Husmann, Lisa Eileen. “Falling Lands, Rising Nations: Environmental Nationalism in China and Central Asia” 

O’Malley, Mark. “Nature and the Body Politic: Hygiene and Ideology in Fin-de-Siecle Berlin” 

Schmitz, Charles. “Privatization in Agriculture: A Case Study from South Yemen” 

Smethurst, David Philip. “Transforming the High Country: Absentee Ownership and Environmental Change in the Central Sierra”

Walker, Peter Abel. “Roots of Crisis: Population, Environment, and the Social History of Smallholder Tree Planting in Malawi” 

1996

Edlund, Eric Gustaf. “The Late Quaternary History of Sierra Nevada Montane Forests” 

Freidberg, Susanne Elizabeth. “Making a Living: A Social History of Market-Garden Work in the Regional Economy of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso” 

Kraus, Martine Marie Louise. “A Comparative Study of the Development and Regulation of Biotechnology in Germany and the United States” 

Pomeroy, Susan Myrrl. “Gendered Places, Virtual Spaces: A Feminist Geography of Cyberspace” 

Goman, Michelle. “A History of Holocene Environmental Change in the San Francisco Estuary” 

Hidalgo-Monroy Wohlgemuth, Neusa. “Organic Agriculture and Indigenous Communities in Chiapas, Mexico: An Alternative to Rural Development”

1995

Koshear, Jeannine. “Traditional Agricultural Resource Management and Ethnobotany of the Guaymi, Coto Brus, Costa Rica” 

Organ, David Joseph. “The Historical Geography of African American Frontier Settlement” 

Vasile, Elizabeth Aristie. “The Greening of Tunis: Ghettoization and the Prosaics of Piety” 

Hirsch, Eric. “Pure Sources, Pure Souls: Folk Nationalism and Folk Music in Hungary in the 1930’s”

1994

Krantz, Timothy Paul. “A Phytogeography of the San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California” 

Suryanata, Krisnawata. “Fruits of Change: Agroforestry, Land, and Society in Upland Java” 

Hsu, Mei-Ling. “A Grid-Based Model for Predicting Soil Depth and Shallow Landslides” 

Craddock, Susan Leigh. “Diseases on the Margin: Morphologies of Tuberculosis and Smallpox in San Francisco, 1860-1940” 

Larson, David John. “The Energy Economy of Northwestern New Mexico with Special Reference to Uranium Development” 

Mutersbaugh, Tad. “Cooperatives, Households and the Village Commune: Time-Geographies of Cooperative Production in an Oaxacan Village” 

1993

Berman, Deborah Santana. “Kicking Off the Bootstraps: Environmental, Development and Community Power in Puerto Rico” 

Yang, Ying. “Image and Reality of Chinese Landscape: With Special Reference to Tourism” 

Page, Brian Kirby. “Agro-Industrialization and Rural Transformation: The Restructuring of Midwestern Meat Production” 

Mitchell, Katharyne Wilcox. “Facing Capital: Cultural Politics in Vancouver” 

Hoffmann, Shirley Dianne. “Subsistence in Transition: Indigenous Agriculture in Amazonas, Venezuela” 

Howard, Thomas Frederick. “Breaching the Mountain Barrier: The First Roads Over the Sierra Nevada” 

Schroeder, Richard Allan. “Shady Practice: Gender and the Political Ecology of Resource Stabilization in Gambian Garden/Orchards” 

Clapp, Roger Alexander Jeffrey. “The Forest at the End of the World: The Transition from Old-Growth to Plantation Forestry in Chile” 

Cook, Charles Eugene. “The Historical Biogeography and Phylogeny of Sika Deer (Cervus Nippon) in East Asia”

Whitesell, Edward Albert. “Changing Courses: the Jurua River, Its People, and Amazonian Extractive Reserves” 

Griggs, Richard Allen. “The Role of Fourth World Nations and Synchronous Geopolitical Factors in the Breakdown of States” 

Mensing, Scott Andrew. “The Impact of European Settlement on Oak Woodlands and Fire: Pollen and Charcoal Evidence from the Transverse Ranges, California” 

1992

Orvis, Kenneth Howard. “Probabalistic Physiographic Approach to Modeling Summer Rainfall in the Sonoran Desert” 

Henderson, George Lawlor. “Regions and Realism: Social Space, Regional Transformation, and the Novel in California, 1882-1924” 

Proctor, James Davis. “The Owl, the Forest, and the Trees: Eco-Idealogical Conflict in the Pacific Northwest” 

Blumler, Mark Allan. “Seed Weight and Environment in Mediterranean-Type Grasslands in California and Israel” 

Ellison, Joanna Clare. “Mangrove Response to Rising Sea-Level, Bermuda”

Muldavin, Joshua Semyon Sylvan. “China’s Decade of Rural Reforms: The Impact of Agrarian Change on Sustainable Development” 

Neumann, Roderick Paul. “The Social Origins of Natural Resource Conflict in Arusha National Park, Tanzania” 

1991

Cartier, Carolyn. “Mercantile Cities on the South China Coast: Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Siamen, 18401930” 

Lee, Jeongman. “The Generation of Sacrifice: Modernization and Korean Farmers” 

1990

Huang, Lee-Chiu. “Spatial and Temporal Climatic Variations in the Tropical Atlantic and their Relationships to ENSO” 

Wright, John Burghardt. “Conserving Rocky Mountain Places: The Planning, Development and Protection of Privately-Owned Lands in Colorado and Utah” 

Jarosz, Lucy Antonina. “Rice on Shares: Agrarian Change and the Development of Sharecropping in Alaotra, Madagascar” 

McDonald, Mary Grace. “Displacing Rice: Factories in the Fields of Farm Power in Tohoku, Japan” 

Wigen, Karen Esther. “Regional Inversions: The Spatial Contours of Economic Change in the Southern Japanese Alps, 1750-1920” 

Argenbright, Robert Thomas. “The Russian Railroad System and the Founding of the Communist State: 1917-1922” 

Rice, Robert Armstrong. “Transforming Agriculture: The Case of Coffee Leaf Rust and Coffee Renovation in Southern Nicaragua” 

1989

Bernhardson, Wayne. “Land and Life in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas).” 

Sicular, Daniel. “Scavengers and the Development of Solid Waste Management in Indonesian Cities.”

Starrs, Paul. “Home Ranch: Ranchers, the Federal Government, and the Partitioning of Western North American Rangeland.” 

Stevens, Stanley. “Sherpa Settlement and Subsistence: Cultural Ecology and History in Highland Nepal.” 

Fondahl, Gail Andrea. “Native Economy and Northern Development: Reindeer Husbandry in Transbaykalia” 

Gaubatz, Piper Rae. “Beyond the Great Wall: China’s Multi-cultural Frontier Cities” 

Sullivan, Donald George. “Human-Induced Vegetation Change in Western Turkey: Pollen Evidence from Central Lydia” 

Walsh, Kathleen Dolan. “Cattle of the Moon: Religion and Ritual in the Domestication and Early History of Bos Primigenius in the Mediterranean Region” 

1988

Dobkin, Marjorie. “Biography Formation and Daily Life in a Frontier City: The Joint Constitution of Society and Subjects in San Francisco, 1848-1858.” 

Eley, Thomas. “Hunters of the Reefs: The Marine Geography of the Kiwai, Papua New Guinea” 

Raburn, Robert. “Motor Freight and Urban Morphogenesis with Reference to California and the West” 

Zimmerer, Karl. “Seeds of Peasant Subsistence: Agrarian Structure, Crop Ecology, and Quechua Agriculture in Reference to the Loss of Biological Diversity in the Southern Peruvian Andes.” 

1987

Brower, Barbara Anne. “Livestock and Landscape: The Sherpa Pastoral System in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Nepal” 

Milukas, Matthew Vitalis. “Energy Flow in a Secondary City: A Case Study of Nakuru, Kenya” 

Pudup, Mary Beth. “Land Before Coal: Class and Regional Development in Southeast Kentucky” 

Semans, Cheryl Ann. “Mapping the Unknown: Jesuit Cartography in China, 1583-1773” 

Lewis, Martin. “Mansida in Bugaias: Economic, Ecological, and Ideological Transformations in the Philippine Cordillera” 

Stine, Scott. “The Past 4000 Years at Mono Lake” 

Voeks, Robert. “A Biogeography of the Piassava Fiber Palm (Attalea funifera Mart.) of Bahia, Brazil” 

1986

Greenberg, Douglas Andrew. “Growth and Conflict at the Suburban Fringe: The Case of the Livermore-Amador Valley, California.” 

Horn, Sally Peterson. “Fire and Paramo Vegetation in the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica.” 

Bender, Alan Richard. “Flying on the “Cheap”: The Morphogenesis of Affordable Airline Transportation in America.” 

Carney, Judith Ann. “The Social History of Gambian Rice Production: An Analysis of Food Shortages.” 

Sowers, Frederick Walter. “Moving On: Migration and Agropastoral Production Among the Fulbe in Southern Burkina Faso.” 

eldhuyzen van Zanten, Tisna. “Migration and Household Reproduction. A Study Among the Bissa of Burkina Faso.”

1985

Beck, Joanna Eunice. “Environmental Determinism in Twentieth-Century American Geography: Reflections in Professional Journals.” 

1984

Hale, George Robert. “Reassessment of the Death Valley-Colorado River Overflow Hypothesis in Light of New Evidence.” 

Nelson, Kristin Louise. “Back Offices and Female Labor Markets: Office Suburbanization in the San Francisco Bay Area.”

Bassett, Thomas Joseph. “Food, Peasantry and the State in the Northern Ivory Coast: 1898-1982.” 

Godfrey, Brian John. “Inner-City Neighborhoods in Transition: The Morphogenesis of San Francisco’s Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities.” 

Marburg, Sandra Lin. “Man’s Role, Woman’s Place: Images of Women in Human Geography.” 

1983

Christopherson, Susan Marie. “Family and Class in the New Industrial City.” 

Groth, Paul Erling. “The Evolution and Exclusion of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Rooming Houses, and Lodging Houses in American Cities, 1880-1930.” 

Murphy, Michael Edward. “Irrigation in the Bajio Region of Colonial Mexico.” 

Priestaf, Iris Gail. “Sacramento River Seepage: alternative mitigating measures.” 

Bassin, Mark. “A Russian Mississippi? A Political-Geographical Inquiry into the Vision of Russia on the Pacific, 1840-1865.” 

Harms, Richard William. “Cirques of the Marble Mountains, Northwestern California.” 

Heiman, Michael Kenneth. “Regional Planning and Land Use Reform for Conservation and Development in New York State.”  

Lev-Ari, Aviva. “Corporate Growth and Locational Interdependence: Observations on the Production, Location, Merger Activity and Organizational Structure of American Paper Companies.” 

1982

Michaelsen, Joel Christian. “Large-Scale, Long Period Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the North Pacific Region.” 

Savage, Victor Roger. “Western Cognition of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia.” 

Yagasaki, Noritaka. “Ethnic Cooperativism and Immigrant Agriculture: a study of Japanese floriculture and truck farming in California.” 

Hecht, Susanna Bettina. “Cattle Ranching Development in the Eastern Amazon: evaluation of a development policy.” 

Storper, Michael Charles. “The Spatial Division of Labor: technology, the labor process, and the location of industries.” 

1981

Kooser, Jaime Claire. “Regulation and System Interdependence: effects of the siting of California electrical energy facilities.”

Lewis, Nancy Davis. “Ciguatera, Health, and Human Adaptation in the Island Pacific.” 

Liebman, Ellen. “The Evolution of Large Agricultural Landholdings in California.” 

1980

Fish, Merle Gerald, Jr. “EL CULTIVO DE ROZA: shifting cultivation in a dry forest of northwest Mexico.” 

Henderson, Krimhilde Trescher. “Farm and Forest on the Dorrigo: a historical-ecological study of land use conflict in northern New South Wales.” 

Lochhead, Elspeth Nora. “The Emergence of Academic Geography in Britain in its Historical Context.”

1979

Miller, Roger Pierce. “A Time-Geographic Assessment of the Impact of Horsecar Transportation on Suburban Non-Heads-of-Household in Philadelphia, 1850-1860.” 

Ogbonna, Okoro David. “The Geographic Consequences of Petroleum in Nigeria with Special Reference to the Rivers State.” 

Yeager, Ruth Marie. “Refugee Settlement and Village Change in the District of Serres, Greece, 19121940.” 

Rossi, Randall Steven. “Land Use and Vegetation Change in the Oak Woodland-Savanna of Northern San Luis Obispo County, California (1774-1978)."

1978

Monteverdi, John Paul. “A Meteorological Analysis of the Variability of Precipitation in the Great Plains, USA.” 

Henry, Curtis Charles. “The Spatial Interaction of Black Families in Suburban Cities in the Bay Area: a study of Black subsystem linkages.” 

Exline, Christopher Hollis. “The Impacts of Growth Control Legislation on Two Suburban Communities: Marin and Sonoma Counties, California.” 

Ross, Toby Arthur. “Rural Residential Development in Sonoma County, California.” 

Felton, Catherine Marie Mancino. “Energy Budget Study of a South San Francisco Bay Tidal Salt Marsh.” 

Helgeson, Ann Cornell. “Soviet Internal Migration and it's Regulation Since Stalin: the controlled and the uncontrollable.” 

1977

Ferrario, Francesco. “The Tourist Landscape: a method of evaluating tourist potential and its application to South Africa.” 

Herr, Valerie Jean. “Economic Growth and Population Relocation: the determinants of settlement evolution in Northern Spain, 1860-1900.” 

Jordan, Kenneth Allen. “The Geography of Consumer Economics Among Black Americans in Oakland: a cultural-behavioral perspective.”

Merrill, Pamela Joy. “American Involvement and the Resurgence in the Australian Cotton Growing Industry, 1962-1972.” 

Schuh, Janet Crane. “People and Place in Transition: Pangoa, Upper Central Montana of Peru.” 

1976

Berg, Donald James. “Second Homes on the National Forests: changing patterns and values of recreational land use in California.” 

Elgie, Robert A. “Racial Inequality Within a Socio-Spatial System: the southeastern U.S., 1950-1970.” 

Floyd, Donald Ray. “Attitudes Toward Nature in Swedish Folklore.” 

Quinn, Mary-Louise. “Water Management and Use in the Upper Delaware River Basin, 1890-1970.” 

Yoon, Hong-Key. “Geomantic Relationships between Culture and Nature in Korea.” 

Dillon, Marsha Bratten. “A Struggle to Survive Commercial Navigation in California’s Central Valley.” 

Smith, Nigel J. “Transamazon Highway: a cultural-ecological analysis of settlement in the Humid Tropics.” 

1975

Baxter, Michael W.P. “Garimpieros of Poxoreo: small scale diamond miners and their environment in Brazil.” 

Dingemans, Dennis James. “The Townhouse in the Suburbs: a study of changing urban morphology and social space in American suburbs, 1960-1974.” 

Kane, Phillip Stanley. “The Glacial Geomorphology of the Lassen Volcanic National Park Area.” 

Rutledge, William Haney. “Morphology During the Growth of the Los Angeles Conurbation, 1900-1970.” 

Veblen, Thomas Thorstein. “The Ecological, Cultural and Historical Bases of Forest Preservation in Totonicapan, Guatemala.” 

Eichel, Marijean Hamilton. “Dalmatia in Microcosm: a historical geography of changing land use on Brac, Yugoslavia.” 

Foster, Richard Harry, Jr. “Location and Function of Mobile Home Parks: the case of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area.” 

Gwan, Emmanuel Achu. “Types, Processes and Policy Implications of the Various Migrations in Western Cameroon.” 

1974

Berdoulay, Vincent Raymond Henri. “The Emergence of the French School of Geography–1870-1914.” 

Burns, Elizabeth Kates. “The Process of Suburban Residential Development: the San Francisco Peninsula, 1860-1970.” 

Chow, Willard Tim. “The Reemergence of an Inner City: the pivot of Chinese settlement in the East Bay Region of the San Francisco Bay Area.” (

Pederson, Eldor Olin. “Land Subdivision, Land Speculation, and Urban Form: an essay on urban morphology.” 

1973

Barnett, Roger Thomas. “Suburban Subdivision: the morphogenesis of housing in Stockton, 18501950.” 

Bunkse, Edmund Valdemars. “The Earth, the Forest and the Sea: landscape attitudes of the Latvian folk.” 

Gohstand, Robert. “The Internal Geography of Trade in Moscow from the Mid-nineenth Century to the First World War.” 

Henderson, Arvin Tarleton, Jr. “The Development of Central Queensland: regional growth in a resource frontier.” 

McLennan, Marshall Seaton. “Peasant and Hacendero in Nueva Ecija: the socio-economic origins of a Philippine commercial rice-growing region.” 

Paul, Erik Charles. “The Viability of Singapore: an aspect of modern political geography.” 

Rowntree, Rowan Allan. “Morphological Change in a California Estuary: sedimentation and marsh invasion at Bolinas Lagoon.” 

Vale, Thomas Randolph. “The Sagebrush Landscape of the Intermountain West.” 

Winters, Christopher. “Cities of the Pondo: the geography of urbanism in the interior Niger Delta of Mali.” 

ZumBrunnen, Craig. “The Geography of Water Pollution of the Soviet Union.” 

1972

Bowen, William A. “Migration and Settlement of a Far Western Frontier: Oregon to 1850.” 

George, Glen. “Spatial Diffusion: an intra-urban case study.” 

Reed, Robert R. “The Origins of the Philippine City: a comparative inquiry concerning indigenous Southeast Asian settlement and Spanish colonial urbanism.” 

Rosenvall, Lynn Albert. “Mormon Settlement Patterns: 1830-1900.” 

1971

Code, William. “The Spatial Dynamics of Financial Intermediaries: an interpretation of the distribution of financial decision-making in Canada.” 

Doughty, Robin Whitaker. “Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation: a study in nature protection.” 

MacPherson, Anne. “The Human Geography of Alexander von Humboldt.” 

Minard, Claude. “Quaternary Beaches and Coasts Between the Russian River and Drakes Bay,  California” 

Rees, Peter. “Route Inertia and Route Competition: a historical geography of transportation between Mexico City and Vera Curz.” 

Sargent, Charles. “Urban Dynamics and the Changing Pattern of Residential Development, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1870-1930.” 

Wilvert, Calvin. “The Southward Migration of Dairying in Australia.” 

1970

Barrett, Elinore Magee. “Land Tenure and Settlement in the Tepalcatepec Lowland, Michoacan, Mexico.” 

Brown, William Henry, Jr. “Class Aspects of Residential Development and Choice in the Oakland Black Community.” 

Cobban, James L. “The City on Java: an essay in historical geography.” (Department of Geography, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio)

Decker, Bryce Gilmore. “Plants, Man, and Landscape in Marquesan Valleys, French Polynesia.” 

Lobb, C. Gary. “The Historical Geography of the Cattle Regions Along Brazil’s Southern Frontier.” 

Salter, Christopher Lord. “The Geography of Marginality: a study of migration, settlement, and agricultural development in the Rift Valley of Eastern Taiwan.” 

Walker, Gerald Earl. “Rural Settlement in the Far West: 1850-1880–Sonoma County.” 

1969

Claus, Robert James. “The Spatial Dynamics of a Population of Gasoline Service Stations, Santa Clara County.”

Groves, Paul Anthony. “The Intrametropolitan Location of Manufacturing in the San Francisco Bay Area.” 

Pagenhart, Thomas Harsha. “Water Use in the Yuba and Bear River Basins, California.” 

Radell, David Richard. “A Historical Geography of Western Nicaragua: the spheres of influence on Leon, Granada, and Managua, 1519-1965.” 

1968

Clarke, William Carey. “The Ndwimba Basin, Bismarck Mountains, New Guinea: place and people.” 

Ellefsen, Richard Arthur. “The Milk Supply of Major Indian Cities.” 

Krogzemis, James Ralph. “A Historical Geography of the Santa Marta Area, Colombia.” 

Peet, John Richard. “The Spatial Expansion of Commercial Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century: a theoretical analysis of British import zones and the movement of farming into the interior United States.” 

Wallach, Bret. “The Geographical Consequences of Oil Land Tenure at the Midway-Sunset Oil Field, California.” 

Lier, John. “The Impact of the Rural Economy on Urban Structure and Form in the Canadian Wheat Belt.” 

1967

Bowden, Martyn John. “The Dynamics of City Growth: a historical geography of the San Francisco central business district, 1850-1931.” 

Cermakian, Jean. “The Canalization of the Moselle River: a study in the historical geography of transportation.” 

Collett, Ray Thomas, Jr. “Interpretations of the California Landscape.” 

Frenkel, Robert Edgar. “Adventive Vegetation on Certain California Roadsides.” 

Markham, Charles Grem. “Climatological Aspects of Drought in Northeastern Brazil.” 

Marr, Paul Donald. “The Impact of Irrigation on Urban Structure.” 

Sawatzky, Harry Leonard. “Mennonite Colonization in Mexico–a study in the survival of traditionalist society.” 

Shlemon, Roy James. “Landform-Soil Relationships in Northern Sacramento County, California.” 

Wilken, Gene Cady. “Drained-field Agriculture in Southwestern Tlaxcala, Mexico.” 

1966

Andress, Joel Max. “Culture and Habitat in the Central Himalayas.” 

1965

Erickson, Kenneth A. “The Morphology of Lumber Settlement in Western Oregon and Washington.” 

Pederson, Leland Roger. “The Mining Industry of the Norte Chico, Chile.” 

1964

Vermeer, Donald Eugene. “Agricultural and Dietary Practices Among the Tvi, Ibo, and Birom Tribes, Nigeria.” 

1963

Denevan, William Maxfield. “The Aboriginal Settlement of the Llanos de Mojos: a seasonally inundated savanna in northeastern Bolivia.” 

Harris, David Russell. “Plants, Animals, and Man in the Outer Leeward Islands, West Indies: an ecological study of Antigua, Barbuda, and Anguilla.” 

Talbot, Lee Merriam. “The Ecology of Western Masailand, East Africa.” 

1962

Edwards, Clinton R. “Aboriginal Water-craft of Western South America: distribution history and problems of origin.”

Urquhart, Alvin Willard. “Patterns of Settlement and Subsistence in Southwestern Angola.” 

1961

Coffin, Harry Caithness. “Marine Influence on the Climate of Southern California in Summer.” 

1960

Beaty, Chester Broomell. “Gradational Processes in the White Mountains of California and Nevada.” 

Barrett, Ward Judson. “Agriculture of Western Samoa.” 

Johannessen, Carl Lewis. “The Geography of the Savannas of Interior Honduras.” 

Mikesell, Marvin Wray. “The Northern Zone of Morocco: a study of rural settlement and its effect on the land.” 

Pennington, Campbell White. “The Material Culture of the Tarahumara and Their Environment.” 

Street, John M. “Historical and Economic Geography of the Southwest Peninsula of Haiti.”

Vann, John Herman. “The Physical Development of the Parras Basin, Coahuila, Mexico.” 

Innis, Donald Quayle. “Human Ecology in Jamaica.”

1957

Kramer, Fritz Louis. “Distribution of Primitive Tillage.” 

Merrill, Gordon Clark. “The Historical Geography of St. Kitts and Nevis, British West Indies.”

Tuan, Yi-Fu. “The Origin of Pediments in Southeastern Arizona.” 

Burcham, Levi Turner. “Historical Geography of the Range Livestock of California.”

Court, Arnold. “Statistical Bases of Wind Analysis.” 

Simoons, Frederick John. “The Peoples and Economy of Begemder and Semyen, Ethiopia.”

1955

Alexander, Charles Stevenson. “The Geography of Margarita and Adjacent Islands, Venezuela.”

1954

Arnold, Brigham Alicen. “Landforms and Early Human Occupation of the Laguna Seca Chapala Area, Baja, California, Mexico.” 

Aschmann, Harold Homer. “The Ecology, Demography, and Fate of the Indians of the Central Desert of Baja California.”

Gordon, Burton Leroy. “Human Geography and Ecology in the Sin. Country of Colombia.” 

Sopher, David Edward. “The Sea Nomads: a study of the maritime boat people of Southeast Asia, based on the literature.”

1953

Doran, Edwin Beale, Jr. “A Physical and Cultural Geography of the Cayman Islands.”

Miller, David Hewitt. “Snow Cover and Climate in the Sierra Nevada, California.” 

Patton, Clyde Perry. “Climatology of Summer Fogs in the San Francisco Bay Area.”

Wagner, Philip Laurence. “Nicoya: a Historical Geography of a Central American Lowland Community.” 

Zelinsky, Wilbur. “Settlement Patterns of Georgia.”

1951

Hammond, Edwin Hughes. “Landforms of the Cape Region, Baja California.” 

Rostlund, Erhard. “A Distribution Study of Fresh-water Fish and Fishing in Aboriginal America North of Mexico.”

1950

Price, Edward Thomas, Jr. “Mixed-Blood Populations of Eastern United States as to Origins, Localizations, and Persistence.” 

1949

Bartz, Patricia McBride. “Physical Aspects of Ground Water Use in the Upper San Joaquin Valley.”

1948

Parsons, James Jerome. “Antioqueno Colonization in Western Colombia: A Historical Geography.”

1946

West, Robert Cooper. “The Economic Structure of the Mining Community in Northern New Spain: the Parral Mining District.”  

1944

Clark, Andrew Hill. “The South Island of New Zealand.”
Stanislawski, Dan. “The Historical Geography of Michoacan.”

1943

Blumenstock, David Irving. “Drought Lengths and Frequencies in the United States.”

Richardson, Robert William. “Summer Air Transport Along the Coast of Central California: a microclimatic study of a wind gap and some observed effects of wind on trees.” 

1942

Carter, George Francis. “Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest.”

1941

Bowman, Robert Goldthwait. “Soil Erosion in Puerto Rico.” (Department of Geography, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska)

Bruman, Henry John. “Aboriginal Drink Areas in New Spain.” (Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, California)

Hewes, Leslie. “The Geography of the Cherokee Country of Oklahoma.” 

McBryde, Felix Webster. “Native Economy of Southwestern Guatemala and It's Natural Background.” 

1938

Kesseli, John Ernest. “Pleistocene Glaciation in the Valleys Between Lundy Canyon and Rock Creek, Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada, California.”

1937

Post, Lauren Chester. “The Cultural Geography of the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana.”

1936

Spencer, Joseph Earle. “The Middle Virgin River Valley, Utah: a study in culture growth and change.”

1935

Raup, Hallock Floyd. “Settlement and Settlement Forms of the Pennsylvania Dutch at the Forks of the Delaware, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.”

1933

Brand, Donald Dilworth. “The Historical Geography of Northwestern Chihuahua.”

Meigs, Peveril, III. “The Dominican Missions of Lower California: a chapter in historical geography.”

Dicken, Samuel Newton. “The Big Barrens: a morphologic study in the Kentucky karst.”

1930

Kniffen, Fred Bowerman. “The Delta Country of the Colorado, Mexico.”
Thornthwaite, Charles Warren. “Louisville, Kentucky: a study in urban geography.”

1927

Leighly, John Barger. “A Study in Urban Morphology: the towns of Malardalen in Sweden.”