Alan P. Marcus
Assistant Professor
Tel: 410-704-2970
Education:
| PhD | Geosciences | University of Massachusetts - Amherst |
| MS | Geography | University of Massachusetts - Amherst |
| BA | Anthropology | Northeastern University |
Research and Teaching Interests:
Brazil, Brazilian Immigration, Latin America, Migration, Race, Ethnicity, Identity, Cultural Geography, Humanistic Geography, Ethnic Geography
Courses Taught:
World Regional Geography (GEOG 102)
Introduction to Human Geography (GEOG 109)
Cultural Geography (GEOG 357/511)
Rethinking Brazil (GEOG 460/560)
Geography of Latin America (GEOG 461)
Film and Place: A Geographical Perspective (GEOG 470/570)
Geography of the Blues and Rock and Roll: The Mississippi Delta and its Transatlantic Connections (GEOG 470/570)
PUBLICATIONS
PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC JOURNAL ARTICLES
2012 (forthcoming) Sex, Color, and Geography: Racialized Relations in Brazil and its Predicaments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
2011a Rethinking Brazil’s Place within Latin Americanist Geography. Journal of Latin American Geography 10(1): 129- 147.
2011b Experiencing Ethnic Economies. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies 9:1–24.
2010 Back to Goiás and Minas Gerais: Returnees, Geographical Imaginations and its Discontents. Revista Tempo e Argumento 2(2): 121-134.
2009a Brazilian Immigration to the United States and the Geographical Imagination. Geographical Review 99 (4): 481-498.
2009b (Re)Creating Places and Spaces in Two Countries: Brazilian Transnational Migration Processes. Journal of Cultural Geography (26)2: 173-198.
2008a Senso e Censo e Emigrantes Brasileiros nos Estados Unidos: Por Uma Geografia Humanística, (“Sense and Census and Brazilian emigrants in the United States: Towards a Humanistic Geography”). Caderno do NEDER 2, Dossiê da Emigração, Núcleo de Estudos Miltidisciplinar Sobre Desenvolvimento Regional, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
BOOK CHAPTERS
2011c Transnational Rio de Janeiro: (Re)Visiting Geographical Experiences. In Growing Up Transnational: Identity and Kinship in a Global Era, pp. 21-35, edited by May Friedman and Silvia Schultermandl. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.
2011d Racial Self-identification among Brazilian Immigrants in the U.S. and Returnees in Brazil. In Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America (Second Edition), pp. 197-209, edited by J. Frazier, E.Tettey-Fio, and N. Henry. NY: SUNY press.
2012 Global moves from and to Brazil in Careers without Borders: Critical Perspectives, edited by Yehuda Barcuch and Cristina Reis. NY: Routledge.
TEXTBOOK
2011e Towards Rethinking Brazil: A Thematic and Regional Approach. NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (ISBN# 9780470958100).
Department website: http://www.towson.edu/geography/index.asp