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Anne K. Knowles

Associate Professor of Geography

McCardell Bicentennial Hall 328

Phone: (802) 443 - 3434

Email: aknowles@middlebury.edu

Years at Midd: Since 2002

Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
B.A. in English, Duke University, 1979; M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987 and 1993.

Historical geography, historical GIS, 19th century U.S. immigration and industrialization.

Research Areas:

• Historical geography of the United States and Canada
• Applying GIS and other geospatial technologies to historical
   research and teaching
• Labor and technology in antebellum America
• Cultural landscapes
• Welsh immigration

Courses taught at Middlebury College:

GEOG 0100    Society and Space
GEOG 0211    The Global Economy
GEOG 0218    Cultural Geography
GEOG 0219    Historical Geography of North America
GEOG 0224     A Place Called Wales
GEOG 0229    American Landscapes
GEOG 0320    Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
GEOG 0419    Seminar in Historical Geography: Visualizing the Past
GEOG 0420    GIS and Cartography Seminar
FYSE 1053     Place in the American Imagination

Selected Publications:

Books and edited volumes

Knowles, Anne Kelly ed. 2008. Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical Scholarship. Digital supplement edited by Amy Hillier. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Knowles, Anne Kelly ed. 2005. Emerging Trends in Historical GIS. Thematic Issue of Historical Geography, vol 33.

Knowles, Anne Kelly ed. 2002. Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History. Redlands, CA: ESRI Press.

Knowles, Anne Kelly ed. 2000. Historical GIS: The Spatial Turn in Social Science History. Thematic issue of Social Science History, vol. 24, no. 3.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 1997. Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Articles and book chapters

Knowles, Anne Kelly and Richard G. Healey. 2006. Geography, Timing, and Technology: A GIS-Based Analysis of Pennsylvania's Iron Industry, 1825-1875. In Journal of Economic History 66 (3): 608-34.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2006. The white hands 'damn them...won't stick': Labor Scarcity and Spatial Discipline in the Antebellum Iron Industry. In Journal of Historical Geography 32 (1): 57-73.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2002. Wheeling Iron and the Welsh: A Geographical Reading of ‘Life in the Iron Mills'. In Transnational West Virginia: Ethnic Work Communities during the Industrial Era, eds. Ronald Lewis and Kenneth Fones-Wolf, 216-241. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2001. Afterword: Historical Geography since 1987. In North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent, 2nd ed., eds. Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller, 465-470. London: Rowman and Littlefield.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2001. Labor, Race, and Technology in the Confederate Iron Industry. Technology and Culture 42 (1): 1-26.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2000. A Case for Teaching Geographic Visualization without GIS. Cartographic Perspectives 36(spring): 24-37.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2000. Mapping Wisconsin. Geographical Review 90 (2): 277-284.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2000. Alma Mater: Cartographic Portraits of Wellesley College. Mercator’s World 5(November/December): 40-45.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 1999. Migration, Nationalism, and the Construction of Welsh Identity. In Nested Identities, eds. Guntram Herb and David Kaplan, 289-315. Boulder, CO: Rowman & Littlefield.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 1998. The Structure of Rural Society in Northern Cardiganshire, 1800-1850. In Cardiganshire County History, Vol. 3: Cardiganshire in Modern Times, eds. Ieuan Gwynedd Jones and Geraint H. Jenkins, 76-93. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 1997. Religious Identity as Ethnic Identity: Welsh Settlement in Waukesha County, Wisconsin. In Wisconsin Land and Life, eds. Robert C. Ostergren and Thomas Vale, 282-299. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Knowles, Anne Kelly. 1995. Immigrant Trajectories through the Rural-Industrial Transition in Wales and the United States, 1795-1850. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85: 246-266.

In development

Knowles, Anne Kelly. Making American Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry, 1800-1868 (under contract, University of Chicago Press). A study of the uneven development of the iron industry and the role skilled workers played in the transfer of iron-making technologies from Great Britain to the United States and from one part of the country to another.