Guntram Herb

Guntram H. Herb, Ph.D. is professor and chair of geography at Middlebury College. His major publications include Scaling Identities: Nationalism and Territoriality (2018), Cambridge World Atlas 2009), Nations and Nationalisms in Global Perspective: An Encyclopedia of Origins, Development, and Contemporary Transitions (4 vols., 2008), Nested Identities: Nationalism, Territory, and Scale (1999), and Under the Map of Germany: Nationalism and Propaganda, 1918-1945 (1997) His current digital research project Indigenous Borderlands and Border Rites is a multi-media website that documents the challenges of native nations divided the US-Canada border (www.border-rites.org). Based on more than 24,000 miles of fieldwork, the documentation is guided by minaadendamowin, which means ‘respect’ in the Anishinaabe language, and seeks to break the silence that surrounds the more than fifty different indigenous peoples living in the northern borderlands. Professor Herb is the recipient of fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, National Endowment of the Humanities, Digital Native American and Indigenous Studies Project, Digital Liberal Arts Initiative at Middlebury College, and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation. He is past chair of the European Geography and Military Geography Specialty Groups of the American Association of Geographers and on the editorial boards of the journals Geographical Review, Political Geography, and National Identities.