
Lisa Benton-Short
Title: | Department Chair [On Sabbatical] |
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Faculty: | Full-Time |
Office: | Room 205 |
Address: | Samson Hall 2036 H St NW Washington, DC, 20052 |
Phone: | 202-994-6188 |
Email: |
[email protected] |
Areas of Expertise
Monuments, Memorials and Public Space
National Parks in Cities
Environmental Issues in cities
Urban Sustainability
Cities and Immigration
Professor of Geography
Education
Ph.D. (Syracuse)
Publications
Benton-Short, L.M. National Identity and the National Mall. (in progress)
Benton-Short, L (editor). 2013. Cities of North America: Contemporary challenges in US and Canadian Cities. Rowman and Littlefield: New York.
Benton-Short, L.M. and J.R. Short. 2013. Cities & Nature, Second Edition. New York: Routledge and London
M. Price and Benton-Short, L.M. (editors) 2008. Migrants to the Metropolis: the Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press.
Benton, L.M. and J.R. Short (editors). 2001. Environmental Discourses: a Reader. Oxford: Blackwell.
Benton, L.M. and J.R. Short. 1999. Environmental Discourses and Practice. Oxford: Blackwell.
Classes Taught
GEOG 1001 - Human Geography
GEOG 2140 - Cities & Society
GEOG 3143 - Urban Sustainability
GEOG 3810 - Building Cities
GEOG 6243 - Seminar on US Cities
GEOG 6244 - Seminar on Urban Sustainability