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Thanks for visiting.  Explore this site to learn more about my various academic and community activities.  Over the course of my academic training in architecture and human geography, I have built a record of research, teaching and publication in cultural landscape analysis, medical geography and disability studies.  I moved from Ohio Valley to Center City Philadelphia in June of 2001 and began teaching at Temple University that fall. Since September 1, 2002, I have been an assistant professor of urban education at Temple University.  I serve as the Coordinator of Disability Studies at Temple University's Institute on Disabilities, and teach and advise for the Urban Education Program of the Department of Education Leadership and Policy Studies.


I spent the 2000-2001 academic year at the University of Vermont teaching human geography and medical geography in the Department of Geography .  But as you can see from my educational background I am really a transplant from the Ohio Valley.  Students in my classes learn to appreciate the cultural, political and economic diversity to be found in their immediate environments, as well as in far-flung geographic realms.  These have included North American landscapes of disability rights activism and Caribbean projects for sustainable development.  For the past three summers I have brought students from Temple University and West Chester University to the rural Jamaican parish of St. Thomas.  There we partner with community organizations: basic schools, women's centers, and rural agricultural development agencies.  Students pursue projects of mutual interest while the non-profit Edu-Tourism, Inc. works to ensure that these projects continue to progress from year to year.

Use the menu above to navigate to pages discuss my personal biography, my research and service activities.  Check out my weblogs devoted to Disability Studies and Third World Development.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D. Geography University of Kentucky, 2002
M.S. Geography The Pennsylvania State University, 1994
B.S. Architecture The Ohio State University, 1990, cum laude

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
    Urban social geography
    Interdisciplinary social theory
    Alcohol and disability studies
    Cultural geographies of American medicine and public health

CONTACT MIKE DORN:
  Office Ph. (215) 204-3373
  mdorn@temple.edu