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Subject:        New editorial team for the _Geographical Review_
Date:   Fri, 9 Jun 2006 16:21:14 -0600
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From: Craig Colten [[log in to unmask]]
Date sent: 8 Jun 2006

NEW EDITOR FOR _GEOGRAPHICAL REVIEW_

The American Geographical Society has named Craig E. Colten of Louisiana
State University as editor for the _Geographical Review_. Dr. Colten
will edit volumes 97-99, i.e., those for years 2007-2009. He is the Carl
O.
Sauer Professor of Geography. For the past six years he has co-edited
Historical Geography. His most recent book, _An Unnatural Metropolis:
Wresting New Orleans from Nature_, won the J. B. Jackson Prize for 2005.

Three other members of the LSU faculty will serve on the editorial team:

Dydia DeLyser and Andrew Sluyter as associate editors and Kent Mathewson
as book review editor. The new editor is accepting manuscripts now, at
LSU's Department of Geography & Anthropology, 227 Howe-Russell, Baton
Rouge, LA 70803-4105 and at [log in to unmask] Outgoing editors, Douglas
Johnson and Viola Haarmann will complete volumes 95 and 96 and
correspondence pertaining to those should continue to go to them.

Deborah E. Popper, Chair, GR Search Committee

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Craig E. Colten
Department of Geography & Anthropology
Louisiana State University