Graduate Program in Geography
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Joseph J. Hobbs Professor, Department Chair |
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Ph.D., Geography, University of Texas, Austin |
Emphasis: cultural ecology, Middle East, arid lands biogeography, indigenous peoples in protected area management, geography of caves |
Current research interests: Neolithic and Predynastic habitation of the eastern desert of Egypt; human uses of caves in Madagascar, Mexico, Malaysia and Indonesia; the global narcotics trade. |
Representative publications: • J.J. Hobbs. 2008. World Regional Geography. Belmont, California: Cengage. • J.J. Hobbs. 2008. “Ritual Uses of Caves in West Malaysia.” Chapter in Journeys Into the Dark Zone: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Ritual Uses of Caves, edited by Holley Moyes. University Press of Colorado. • J.J. Hobbs and With F. Tsunemi. 2007. “Bedouin Tourist Stations as a Response to Drought in Egypt’s Eastern Desert.”. Human Ecology 35 (2). • J.J. Hobbs. 2005. “The Geographic Dimensions of Al-Qa’ida Rhetoric.” Geographical Review 95(3):301-327. • J.J. Hobbs. 2004. “Problems in the Harvest of Edible Birds’ Nests in Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.” Biodiversity and Conservation 13: 2209-2226. • J.J. Hobbs. 2001. “Exploration and Discovery With the Bedouin of Egypt.” Geographical Review 91(1-2):285-294. • J.J. Hobbs. 1998. “Troubling Fields: The Opium Poppy in Egypt.” Geographical Review 88(1):64-85. • J.J. Hobbs. 1996. "Speaking with People in Egypt's St. Katherine National Park." Geographical Review 86(1):1-21. • J.J. Hobbs. 1995. Mount Sinai. Austin: University of Texas Press. 376 pp. American University in Cairo Press Edition, 1996. • J.J. Hobbs. 1989. Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness.; Austin: University of Texas Press. 165 pp.
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