JAMES W. FONSECA
Punta Gorda FL
EDUCATION
1974 Ph.D. in Geography, Clark University
1969 B.A. in Geography, Bridgewater State University, MA
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
2014 – Professor of Geography (retired) and Dean Emeritus, Ohio University – Zanesville
2012 – 2014 Executive Dean for Regional Higher Education, Ohio University, Athens OH
1998 – 2012 Dean, Ohio University – Zanesville
1992 ‑ 1998 Founding Director, Science and Technology Campus (formerly Prince William Campus), George Mason University, Fairfax VA
1986 – 1992 Associate Dean (Acting Dean, 1988-90), Graduate School, George Mason University
1981 ‑ 1986 Director of Individualized Study Degree Programs, Division of Continuing Education, George Mason University
1978 – 1980 Program Director in Geography, George Mason University
1974 ‑ 1998 Associate and Assistant Professor of Geography; Professor 1996-1998, George Mason University
BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS AND MONOGRAPHS
Making History; Creating a Landscape: The Portuguese American Community of Southeastern New England, GeoImpressions Publishing, 2018 (Amazon CreateSpace). https://www.amazon.com/Making-History-Creating-Landscape-Southeastern/dp/1722258462/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1533729171&sr=1-1&keywords=making+history+creating+a+landscape
“Micropolitan Ohio: A Study of the Internal Structure of Small Cities,” pp. 109-137, Beyond the Metropolis: Urban Geography as if Small Cities Mattered; Benjamin Ofori-Amoah, ed., University Press of America, 2007.
Atlas of American Society, with Alice C. Andrews, (New York: New York University Press, July 1995). (The paperback edition was named one of Choice’s Outstanding Books for 1996.The book was translated and published in Japan by Toro Shubin Publishing, 1998.)
Atlas of American Higher Education with Alice C. Andrews, (New York: New York University Press, hardcover 1993; paper 1995).
The Urban Rank-Size Hierarchy: A Mathematical Interpretation, Monograph #8, (Ann Arbor: Institute of Mathematical Geography, 1989). The text of the manuscript is available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/58235
World Regional Map Skills: Student Supplement to de Blij’s Geography: Regions and Concepts with Alice Andrews, (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1981).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS (Since 2000)
“Under the Radar: Branch Campuses Take Off,” (with Charles Bird), University Business, October 2007.
“Changing Patterns of Population Density in the United States” (with David W. Wong), Professional Geographer, v. 52, no.3, August 2000, pp. 504-17.
The Changing Epistemological Foundation of the Concept of Region, ResearchGate 2020 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/345178992_FonsecaTHE_CHANGING_EPISTEMOLOGICAL_FOUNDATION_OF_THE_CONCEPT_OF_REGIONfinal
The Geography of Virginia, ResearchGate 2020 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342961288_THE_GEOGRAPHY_OF_VIRGINIA_from_Newsletter_of_The_Institute_of_Government_at_the_University_of_Virginia_Vol_57_No_1_July_1981
Regional Shifts in State Centers of Population, ResearchGate 2020 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/342926411_Regional_Shifts_in_State_Centers_of_Population
California: Under the Geographer’s Microscope, Medium.Com 2021 https://medium.com/@jimwfonseca/california-under-the-geographers-microscope-641adc4a4b41
Rhode Island: Under the Geographers Microscope, Medium.Com 2021 https://medium.com/@jimwfonseca/rhode-island-under-the-geographers-microscope-1bac289107c3
New Jersey: Under the Geographers Microscope, Medium.Com 2021 https://medium.com/@jimwfonseca/new-jersey-under-the-geographers-microscope-3b0e24858bd
The 80/20 Rule, Medium.Com 2021 https://medium.com/@jimwfonseca/the-80-20-rule-4a8c5beb5f43
(Various publications and presentations prior to 2000 omitted here)