Stephen P. Hanna

Associate Professor of Geography
B.A - Clark University, 1987
M.A. University of Vermont, 1992
Ph.D. University of Kentucky, 1997

Contact Information

Office: 307B Monroe Hall
Phone: (540) 654-1490
e-mail: shanna@umw.edu

Teaching and Research Summary

When combined with my background in cartography, my interests in development, globalization, and the production of place and identity ensure that my teaching responsibilities and research agenda cover a lot of ground. Thus, in addition to teaching Cartography, GIS, and Remote Sensing), I engage with the complex intersections between economies, cultures, and politics in economic geography courses and senior seminars.

These same interests come together in my research on place and representation. For example, Mapping Tourism (2003), edited by Vincent Del Casino (California State University - Long Beach) and myself, combines critical cartography with recent theories of tourism to investigate the roles maps play in the reproduction of tourism spaces and identities.

Current Course Offerings

• GEOG 250: Elements of Cartography
• GEOG 336: Economic Geography
• GEOG 339: Geography and Development
• GEOG 340: Remote Sensing and Air Photo Interpretation
• GEOG 351: Geographic Information Systems
• GEOG 490: Senior Seminar

Recent Publications

Books

• Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino (editors) 2003. Mapping Tourism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

• Del Casino, Vincent J. and S.P. Hanna 2005. "Beyond the 'binaries': a methodological intervention for interrogating maps as representational practices," ACME: An International E-journal for Critical Geographies (forthcoming).
• Hanna, Stephen P., Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr., Casey Selden, and Benjamin Hite 2004 "Representation is Work: The Everyday Production of Heritage in 'America's Most Historic City,'" Social and Cultural Geography. Vol. 5(3): 459-481.
• Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino 2003. "Chapter One: Tourism Spaces, Mapped Representations, and the Practices of Identity, in Mapping Tourism (Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino, editors). University of Minnesota Press.
• Del Casino J., Vincent J., and S. P. Hanna 2003. "Chapter Eight: Mapping Identities, Reading Maps: The Politics of Representation in Bangkok's Sex Tourism Industry, in Mapping Tourism (Hanna, Stephen P. and Vincent J. Del Casino, editors). University of Minnesota Press.
• Del Casino Jr., Vincent J., A. Grimes, S. P. Hanna, and J.P. Jones III. 2000. "Methodological Frameworks for the Geography of Organizations," Geoforum. Vol. 31(4): 523 - 539 (refereed).
• Hanna, Stephen P. 2000. "Representation and the Reproduction of Appalachian Space: A History of Contested Signs and Meanings," Historical Geography. Vol. 28: 171-199 (refereed).
• Del Casino Jr., Vincent J. and S. P. Hanna. 2000. "Representations and Identities in Tourism Map Spaces," Progress in Human Geography. Vol. 24(1): 23-46 (refereed).