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Joseph J. Hobbs
Professor
expertise: cultural ecology, Middle East geography, sacred space, role of indigenous and local peoples in protected areas, academic development in Vietnam.
Web: www.missouri.edu/~grcjh
office: 16 Stewart Hall
phone: 573- 882-0586

Education

• Ph.D. in Geography, University of Texas (Austin), 1986

• M.A. in Geography, University of Texas (Austin), 1980

• B.A. in Anthropology and Environmental Studies-Natural History, University of California (Santa Cruz), 1978

Selected Publications

• Hobbs, Joseph J., Christopher L. Salter, Jesse Wheeler and Trent Kostbade. 2000. Essentials of World Regional Geography. Philadelphia: Harcourt College Publishers.

• Hobbs, Joseph J., 1995. Mount Sinai.  Austin: University of Texas Press.

• Hobbs, Joseph J., 1989. Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness.  Austin: University of Texas Press.

• Hobbs, Joseph J., S. Goodman., P. Meininger., W. Mullie. and S Baha el-Din., 1989. The Birds of Egypt. London: Oxford University Press. 551 pp.

• Hobbs, Joseph J., 1998. Inception of the Bedouin Support Programme in the St. Katherine Natural Protectorate, Sinai, Egypt. Mountain Research and Development 18(3):235-248.

• Hobbs, Joseph J., 1996. Speaking with People in Egypt's St. Katherine National Park. Geographical Review 86(1):1-21 

Selected Grants, Fellowships and Awards

• National Geographic Society Committee for Research and Exploration Grant for a Survey and Excavation of Predynastic Sites in the Eastern Desert, Egypt, 2000.

• American Geographical Society/McColl Family FOCUS fellowship for research on human uses of Caves in Madagascar, 2000.

• The Bioanthropology Foundation grant for a five year project (1999-2004) to create a Bedouin Antiquities Rangers Program in Egypt's Eastern Desert.

• Fulbright Senior Scholar Research Grant for Research on Conservation Systems in Egypt's St. Katherine Natural Protectorate,  1995.

• William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, University of Missouri-Columbia, 1994.

• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship for research on the environmental perceptions of Jebelia Bedouins in the Sinai Peninsula, 1989.

• National Defense Education Act Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowships for Arabic language study, 1985-86; 81-82; 79-80.

• Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad grant for fieldwork on Egyptian pastoral nomads, 1982-83.

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