1974 - 1978 Bachelor of Arts, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.

1978 - 1980 Master of Arts, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware.

1981 - 1983 Master of Arts, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.

1993 - 1996 Doctor of Philosophy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

1984 - 1988 Intelligence Officer, Central Intelligence Agency, Washington, DC.

1989 - 1993 City Planner and Deputy Director, Department of Planning and Management,

1998-2005 Assistant Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana.

2005-present Associate Professor, School of Social Sciences, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Director, The Southern Studies Institute and Editor, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2001-2006. Southern Studies is an interdisciplinary journal that appears four times per year, and publishes articles dealing with Southern literature, history, society, geography, economics, and politics. In addition, the journal publishes reviews of books on the American South. In 2004 I reestablished the journal's advisory board, which now includes scholars from history, anthropology, geography, literature, and political science to ensure that the journal continues its role as an interdisciplinary journal of the South.

Book Review Editor, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2005-present. Process and edit all book reviews for the journal.

Advisor, Social Sciences Degree Program, Northwestern State University. As the advisor to majors in the Social Sciences degree program at Northwestern, I met with students on a regular basis and provided them information concerning degree requirements and employment opportunities for graduates. In addition, I wrote letters of recommendation for many of the graduates of the program. The program was terminated in 2005.

Program Coordinator, Bachelor of Arts in Heritage Resources, 2005-2007. Advised students and worked with faculty in new interdisciplinary program. Led efforts to reformulate the curriculum to ensure the program's success.

Director, Region IV Social Studies Fair, 2000 and 2001. As Director of the Fair, I was responsible for all organizational aspects of this Fair, attended by approximately 200 school age students, ranging from elementary school to high school. The Fair is held in the Spring, and provides recruitment and other opportunities for the University; the top three finishers in both group and individual categories attend the Louisiana Social Studies Fair, held in Baton Rouge.

Website Development, Geography at Northwestern State University. I created and developed a website http://users.nsula.edu/sinclaird that provides students with information concerning courses offered, syllabi, information on map quizzes, recent class activities, and virtual field trips which the students take as part of their course work.

Geographic Information Systems Training. I completed a four day workshop in September 2004 on Introduction to Geographic Information Systems Using ArcView 8.x conducted by the National Park Service for the Cane River National Heritage Area Commission.

2001: Member of Social Science Redesign Committee with College of Education

2002-2003: Member of the Evaluation and Data Management ad hoc Committee

2003-present: Full member of Graduate Faculty

2004-2005: Graduate Council representative for the School of Social Sciences

2004-2007: Chair, Departmental Curriculum Review Committee

2002: Reviewer for the second edition of Pulsipher, World Regional Geography

2004: Reviewer for the third edition of Pulsipher, World Regional Geography

2005: Reviewer for first edition of Gabrys-Alexson, Global Excursion

2006: Reviewer for the fourth edition of Pulsipher, World Regional Geography

2006: Reviewer for a proposed textbook by Rollinson, World Regional Geography

2007: Reviewer for first edition of Kaufman, Physical Geography

2009: Reviewer for twelfth edition of DeBlij, Realms, Regions, and Concepts

2009: Reviewer for first edition of Greiner, Visualizing Human Geography

2002-2009: Member of the Natchitoches Parish Planning Commission

2008-present: Member of the Louisiana Folklife Commission (appointed by governor)

Outstanding Graduate, Urban Studies Program, College of Charleston.

Recipient of Graduate Assistantship, University of Delaware.

Recipient of Graduate Assistantship, University of South Carolina.

Recipient of Graduate Assistantship, Louisiana State University.

2004 Named to 8^th Edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

2005 Named to 9^th Edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers.

Recipient of Clyde N. Bostick Professorship for the School of Social Sciences for 2007-2008.

1996-1998 City Colleges of Chicago: Adjunct Faculty

Social Science 101 (two sections)

World Geography 101

Geography 1010: World Regional Geography-Developed World

Geography 1020: World Regional Geography-Developing World

Geography 2010: Physical Geography

Geography 2020: Cultural Geography

Geography 3050: Regional Geography of North America

Geography 3060: Regional Geography of Europe

Geography 3080: Regional Geography of Latin America

Geography 3030: Regional Geography of Africa

Geography 4100/5100: Interpreting Cultural Landscapes

Heritage Resources 5300: Approaching the Past

Recipient of a Robert C. West Travel Grant in 1994 for summer research in Honduras.

Recipient of a Robert C. West Travel Grant in 1995 for summer research in Honduras.

Recipient of a John Nolen Research Fund Grant in 1998 for research at Cornell University.

Recipient of a 1998 AAG Dissertation Grant for research support.

Recipient of a 2000 CURIA grant from Northwestern State University for research support.

Recipient of a 2005 Northwestern State University Faculty Enhancement Fund grant for a program to develop a heritage program involving world heritage landscapes in East Africa.

Member of team that received a 2006-2007 Louisiana State Division of the Arts grant (FY07-197-Folklife Initiative Fund-Fieldwork) to develop a regional identity in an area known historically as the Neutral Strip. Served as lead author on final report.

Volume IX, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2002.

Volume X, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2003.

Volume XI, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2004.

Volume XII. Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2005

Volume XIII, Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2006.

"William Bell Marquis," in Pioneers of American Landscape Design. Ed. Charles A. Birnbaum and Robin Karson. 2000. New York: McGraw Hill.

"The Dark Heart of Europe: Culture Conflict in Transylvania." Geographical Bulletin. May 1983.

"Training America." Geographical Perspectives. Fall 1983.

"Tuan’s Topophilia: The Making of a Citation Classic." Geographical Bulletin. November 1995.

"Equal in All Places: The Civil Rights Struggle in Baton Rouge, 1953-1963." Louisiana History. Summer 1998.

"Equal in All Places: The Civil Rights Struggle in Baton Rouge, 1953-1963." Anthologized in the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series Volume 11, Part C, entitled From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, published 2002 by the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

"Equal in All Places: The Civil Rights Struggle in Baton Rouge, 1953-1963." Anthologized in the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial Series Volume 14, entitled New Orleans and Urban Louisiana, 2005, by the Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana-Lafayette.

"Germans in Dixie: The German Element in Antebellum Southern Cites." Co-authored with Harold W. Hurst. Southern Studies, Volume XI, Nos. 1 and 2 (Spring/Summer 2004).

"'Some maps and a lot of trouble': Town Planner John Nolen in South Carolina. South Carolina Historical Magazine, Volume 105, No. 4 (October 2004).

"'Memorials more enduring than bronze': J. H. Sinclair and the Making of Zanzibar Stone Town." International Journal of Heritage Studies, under review.

Review of Nameless Towns: Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942 by Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad. Southern Studies, Volume VII, Number IV (Winter 1996, published in 1998).

Review of To Live in the New World: A. J. Downing and American Landscape Gardening by Judith K. Major. Journal of Cultural Geography, Volume 18, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 1998).

Review of Patterns of Pillage: A Geography of Caribbean-based Piracy in Spanish America by Peter R. Galvin. Historical Geography, Volume 28 (Spring 2000).

Review of The New South's New Frontier: A Social History of Economic Development in Southwestern North Carolina by Stephen Wallace Taylor. Southern Studies, Volume IX, Number 4 (Winter 1998, published in 2002).

Review of Who Am I? by Yi-Fu Tuan. Historical Geography, Volume 31 (2003).

Review of Greenbelt by Cathy D. Knepper. Historical Geography, Volume 31 (2003).

Review of New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape by Pierce Lewis. Southeastern Geographer, Volume 44, number 1 (May 2004).

Review of Capital's Utopia: Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1855-1916 by Anne E. Mosher. Journal of Cultural Geography, Volume 23, No. 2 (Spring/Summer 2006).

Review of Charleston Reborn: A Southern City, Its Navy Yard, and World War II by Fritz Hamer. South Carolina Historical Magazine, Volume 108, No. 3 (July 2007).

Review of Morgan Park: Duluth, U.S. Steel, and the Forging of a Company Town by Arnold R. Alanen. Journal of Cultural Geography, Volume 26, No. 2 (June 2009).

"Louisiana's Frontier: A Summary Report to Five Parishes West of the Cultural Survey of the Region." Lead author on final report in partial fulfillment of Louisiana State Division of the Arts Grant Application #FY07-197, Folklife Initiative Fund-Fieldwork, June 25, 2007.

"Field Guide to Comayagua, Honduras" for a Field Trip at the 25th Meeting of the Congress of Latin Americanist Geographers, January 2, 1996. Organized with William V. Davidson, Louisiana State University.

"The Panama Canal." A study of the international trade flowing through the Canal.

"Panama City." A study of the urban geography of Panama City, Panama.

"Santiago." A study of the physical and political landscapes of Santiago, Chile.

"Narcotics in Chile." A study of the use of Chile as a narcotics transshipment point.

"Border Industries." A study of the growth of maquiladoras along the US-Mexican border.

"Border Energy." A study of the geothermal potential of northern Mexico.

"Slum Dwellers in Mexico." A study of the urban geography of Mexico.

City Center Area Plan. 1990. Adopted plan designed to revitalize an area around a newly constructed 12,000 seat arena in North Charleston, South Carolina.

City Center Redevelopment Plan. 1991. Financing strategy for redeveloping the area around a newly constructed 12,000 seat arena in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Comprehensive Transit Plan. Volume 1, 1991 and Volume 2, 1992. Plan analyzing existing transit facilities in the City of North Charleston and recommending improvements to the system.

A Working Paper on Implementation Strategies for Opening the North Charleston Coliseum. 1992. Document used by policy makers to finance and direct the construction of parking facilities for a 12,000 seat arena. This document was used to issue $20 million in bonds for property acquisition and construction of facilities.

Resource Guide to Neighborhood and Comprehensive Planning. 1992. Compendium of planning articles, notes, and approaches to urban planning.

The Rivers Avenue Beautification Plan. 1992. Landscape design plan for the beautification of one of the major arterials in the City of North Charleston.

Old Village/Park Circle Plan. 1994. Plan designed to revitalize a deteriorating but historically important area of the City of North Charleston, South Carolina.

"Agricultural Colonization in South Carolina, 1900-1910." Paper presented to the South Carolina Academy of Science, 1983. Abstract published in the Academy Bulletin.

"Landscape Enchanted and Beautiful: Poetry and Place in Honduran Literature." Presented at the symposium "Beyond Borders: The Interface Between Anthropology and Geography," held at Louisiana State University on November 12, 1994.

"’A Community in Itself’: The Forgotten Garden City of North Charleston, South Carolina." Presented at the 1998 meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, October 1998.

"Creating the New South Garden City." Presented at the 2000 meeting of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, November 2000.

"John Nolen and City Planning in the New South." Presented at the 2002 Northwestern State University Research Day, sponsored by the Council for University Research Incentive Awards, April 20, 2002.

"The Kisatchie Hills: A Cultural Island in Northwestern Louisiana." Presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March 4-8, 2003 in New Orleans, Louisiana.

"Voting for Segregation: "Massive Resistance" and the Geography of Amending the Louisiana Constitution, 1956-1962." Presented at the 2004 annual meeting of the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers, November 10-13, 2004 in Nacogdoches, Texas.

"The History of North Charleston." Presented to the Olde North Charleston Neighborhood Council, August 1, 2005, sponsored by The Noisette Company, LLC.

"Five Parishes West-A Louisiana Cultural Case Study in the Making." Paper presented to the Louisiana Travel and Tourism Summit, Lafayette, Louisiana, January 9-11, 2007.

"Integrating World Heritage into the Curriculum. Presented at the 2007 Northwestern State University Research Day, sponsored by the NSU Research Council.

"Louisiana's Frontier and the Search for Regional Identity." Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, Bryan, Texas, November 1-3, 2007.

Panel participant, "Teaching Geography to Non-Geographers," at the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers, Bryan, Texas, November 1-3, 2007.

"Power of Partnerships." Paper presented to the Louisiana Travel and Tourism Summit, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 8-10, 2008.

Session Chair, "Louisiana Landscapes and People II," Annual Conference of the Pioneer America Society, /Eastern Historical Geography Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 15-18, 2008.

"Capital's Frontier: Sawmill Townscapes in Western Louisiana." Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the Pioneer America Society/Eastern Historical Geography Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, October 15-18, 2008.