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Matthew R. Engel
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Assistant Professor |
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GS 1345 |
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660.562.1385 |
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660.562.1055 |
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engel@nwmissouri.edu |
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Courses Taught
Northwest
Missouri State University
- Economic
Geography
- Geography
of Latin America
- Introduction
to Geography - Honors Section
- People
and Cultures of the World
- People
and Cultures of the World - Honors Section
- Senior
Seminar in Geography
- Urban
Geography
- Seminar
- Directed Readings in Latin American Studies (as Independent Study)
- Seminar
- Directed Readings in Cultural Geography (as Independent Study)
University
of Nebraska
- Economic
Geography
- Geography
of Latin America
- Human
Geography
University
of Missouri
- Regions
and Nations of the World I
- Regions
and Nations of the World II
-
Regions and Nations of the World II - Honors
Education
- Ph.D.
Geography, University of Nebraska, August 2007, "When a Prison Comes to
Town: Siting, Location,
and Perceived Impacts of Correctional Facilities in the Midwest"
- M.A.
Geography, University of Missouri, August 1996, "Territoriality and the Oglala
Lakota"
- B.A.
Geography, minor in Political Science, University of Missouri, December 1994
- B.A.
History, University of Missouri, December 1994
Scholarly Activity
Professional
Presentations
- "Mapping
the News: Illustrating Hinterlands of
Urban Areas," 96th Annual Meeting of the National Council
for Geographic Education, Portland, Oregon, August 2011.
- "Morbid
News: The Demographic and Spatial
Dynamics of Fatalities in the Media," 107th Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington, April 2011.
- "The
Geography of Death: Morbidity in
American Newspapers," 106th Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Geographers, Washington, DC, April 2010.
- "Perceptions
of Long-Standing Prisons in Small Towns:
Comfort with an Old Neighbor?," 105th Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2009.
- Hurt,
Douglas A., Jeff Widener, and Matthew Engel.
"Una Paradoja en el Paraíso del Café:
Starbucks, Globalization,
and the Geography of Latin American Coffee," Conference of Latin Americanist
Geographers, Granada, Nicaragua, January 2009.
- Hurt,
Douglas A., Jeff Widener, and Matthew Engel.
"Starbucks, Globalization, and the Geography of Latin
American Coffee," poster presented at the Oklahoma Research Day in Broken Bow,
Oklahoma, November 2008.
- Hurt,
Douglas A., Jeff Widener, and Matthew Engel.
"Starbucks, Globalization, and the Geography of Latin
American Coffee," Annual Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association
of American Geographers, San Marcos, Texas, October 2008.
- "Nonmetropolitan
Prisons: The View from Next Door," 104th
Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts, April 2008.
- "Local
Perceptions of Prison Impacts," Annual Meeting of the Great Plains/Rocky
Mountain Division of the
Association of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, September 2007.
- "Perceptions
of Prison Siting and Impacts in the Midwest," 103rd Annual Meeting
of the Association of American
Geographers, San Francisco, California, April 2007.
- "The
Social Impacts of Correctional Facilities on Small Towns in the Midwest," 102nd
Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Chicago, Illinois, March 2006.
- "Prisons
in the Midwest: No Longer Part of the
NIMBY Phenomenon," 101st Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Geographers, Denver, Colorado, April 2005.
- "When a
Prison Comes to Town: The Experiences of
Midwest Communities," 100th Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 2004.
- "Prisons
in the Nonmetropolitan Midwest," 99th Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers,
New Orleans, Louisiana, March 2003.
- "The
Impact of Prisons on Plains Towns," Plains Humanities Alliance Seminar,
Lincoln, Nebraska, November
2002.
- "Christian
Perceptions of the Underworld in the Middle Ages," Annual Meeting of the Great Plains/Rocky
Mountain Division of the Association of American Geographers, Omaha, Nebraska,
September 2001.
- "The
Impact of Recent Prison Construction on Small Town America," 97th
Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Geographers, New York, New York, March 2001.
- "Satan's
Domain: The Landscape of Hell," Annual
Meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of
American Geographers, College Station, Texas, November 2000.
- "Whiteclay,
Nebraska: A Problem Landscape," 96th
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 2000.
- "The
Great Plains and Middle West in Nebraska," 95th Annual Meeting of
the Association of American Geographers,
Honolulu, Hawaii, April 1999.
- "Cowboy
Hats vs. Baseball Caps: The Great Plains
and Middle West in Nebraska," Western States Geographic
Names Conference, Cody, Wyoming, September 1998.
- "Territoriality
and the Oglala Lakota," 94th Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Boston,
Massachusetts, March 1998.
- "The
Cultural Landscape of Pine Ridge Reservation," Missouri Geography Summer
Speaker Series, Columbia,
Missouri, June 1996.
Publications
- 2004. "Small Towns," in Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, ed. David J. Wishart,
184-185. Lincoln: University
of Nebraska Press.
- 2003. Whiteclay, Nebraska: A Problem Landscape. The
North American Geographer 5(1-2):
142-146.
- 2001. Co-authored with Smith, Jeffery S., Douglas
A. Hurt, Jeffery E. Roth, and James M. Stevens.
La Cultura
de la Acequia Madre: Cleaning a
Community Irrigation Ditch. The North American Geographer 3(1): 5-28.
- 1999. Co-authored with Hurt, Douglas A., Todd D.
Heibel, and Henry J. Rademacher. Home in
North America. The
North American Geographer 1(1): 1-3.
- 1999. Cowboy Hats vs. Baseball Caps: The Great Plains and Middle West in
Nebraska. The North American Geographer 1(1): 53-63.
Book
Reviews
- 2005. El Cerrito, New Mexico: Eight Generations in a Spanish Village by
Richard L. Nostrand in Journal of Material Culture 37(2): 87.
- 2004. Homelands:
A Geography of Culture and Place Across America edited by Richard L.
Nostrand and
Lawrence Estaville in East Texas
Historical Journal 42(1): 62.
- 2004. Approaches to Landscape by Richard Muir in Journal of Material Culture 36(2): 80-81.
- 2002. Rediscovering the Great Plains by Norman
Henderson in The North American
Geographer 4(1-2): 180-182.
- 2001. Heritage on Stage: The Invention of Ethnic Place in America's
Little Switzerland by Steven D. Hoelscher
in Journal of Cultural Geography
19(1): 128-130.
- 2001. On the Rez by Ian Frazier in Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group
Newsletter 15(1): 5-6.
- 2001. Under the Devil's Thumb by David Gessner in The North American Geographer 3(2): 129-130.
- 2000. The Burden of History: Colonialism and the Frontier Myth in a Rural
Canadian Community by Elizabeth
Furniss in Environment and Planning A
32(6): 1135-1136.
- 1999. A Sense of the American West edited by James
E. Sherow in Nebraska History
80(2): 84.
Invited
Lectures
- "The
Social Impacts of New Correctional Facilities," Department of History and
Geography, Geography Awareness
Week Lecture, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, Oklahoma. November 2010.
Academic
Duties and Service
- Institutional
Review Board Member. August
2011-present.
- Reader,
AP Human Geography Exam administered by Educational Testing Service,
Cincinnati, Ohio, June
2011
- Judge,
Carville Earle Award of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the
Association of American Geographers,
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, Washington,
April 2011
- Search
Committee Member, Hiring for Tenure-Track Human Geographer, Department of Geology/Geography,
Northwest Missouri State University, November 2010-March 2011
- Reader,
AP Human Geography Exam administered by Educational Testing Service,
Cincinnati, Ohio, June
2010
- Judge,
Carville Earle Award of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the
Association of American Geographers,
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC,
April 2010
- C-CERT
Training, Earned Certificate for Campus Community Emergency Response Team,
February 2010
- Search
Committee Member, Hiring for One-Year Position for Human Geographer, Department
of Geology/Geography,
Northwest Missouri State University, December 2009-March 2010
- Alternate
Senator, Geology/Geography Department representative to the Faculty Senate at
Northwest
- Missouri
State University, August 2009-present
- Campus
Advisor, Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity, Northwest Missouri State University, August
2009-present
- Student/Faculty
Discipline Committee, Northwest Missouri State University, August 2009-August
2011.
- Reader,
AP Human Geography Exam administered by Educational Testing Service, Lincoln,
Nebraska, June
2009
- Judge,
Carville Earle Award of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the
Association of American Geographers,
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, Nevada,
April 2009
- Faculty
Advisor, Gamma Theta Upsilon/Geography Student Organization, September
2008-present
- Honors
Program Advisory Committee, Northwest Missouri State University, August
2008-present
- Reader,
AP Human Geography Exam administered by Educational Testing Service, Lincoln,
Nebraska, June
2008
- Judge,
Carville Earle Award of the Historical Geography Specialty Group of the
Association of American Geographers,
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston,
Massachusetts, April 2008
- Co-Founder
and Contributing Editor, The North
American Geographer, March 1997-January 2007
- Judge,
Student Paper and Poster Competitions, Joint Meeting of the Great Plains/Rocky
Mountain
- Division
and the West Lakes Division of the Association of American Geographers,
Lincoln, Nebraska, October 2006
- Secretary/Historian,
Gamma Theta Upsilon/Geography Student Organization, University of Nebraska, April
2002-April 2003
- Reviewer
for John Wiley & Sons in the revision process for Latin America and the Caribbean:
A Systematic and Regional Survey edited by Brian W. Blouet and
Olwyn M. Blouet, 4th edition, 2002
- Treasurer,
Indigenous Peoples Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers,
May 1999-May
2001
- President,
Gamma Theta Upsilon/Geography Student Organization, University of Nebraska, January 1999-April
1999
- Vice-President,
Gamma Theta Upsilon/Geography Student Organization, University of Nebraska, April 1998-December
1998
- Secretary/Historian,
Gamma Theta Upsilon/Geography Club, University of Missouri, April 1994-April 1996
Awards
- Tower
Service Award, Northwest Missouri State University, 2011.
- Geology/Geography
Department Award for Teaching Excellence, Northwest Missouri State University, 2011
- ertificate
of Recognition for Contributions to Students, UNL Parents Association & UNL
Teaching
- Council,
University of Nebraska, 2006
- Graduate
Student of the Year, Department of Geography, University of Missouri, 1996
- Jesse H.
Wheeler Award for Outstanding Undergraduate of the Year, Department of
Geography, University
of Missouri, 1994
Other Professional Experiences
- American
Historical Association (1997-present)
- Association
of American Geographers (1996-present)
- Gamma
Theta Upsilon (1994-present)
- National
Geographic Society (2010-present)
- Nebraska
State Historical Society (1998-present)
- Organization
of American Historians (1998-present)
- Pioneer
American Society (1999-present)
- State
Historical Society of Missouri (1997-present)
- State
Historical Society of North Dakota (2007-present)
