Professor of Geography and Anthropology, University of Illinois at Chicago

University of Chicago, Ph.B., B.Sc. (1950);

Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad), postgraduate course (1951-52);

Louisiana State University M.S. (1954), Ph.D. (1958)

Instructor, University of Malaya, Singapore, 1951-53;

Instructor, Assistant Professor, Yale University, 1956-61;

Visiting Professor, Cornell Univ. (Agricultural Economics), 1960;

Director, Pan American Union / University of Puerto Rico program of graduate studies in Caribbean social sciences 1961-63;

Consultant, agriculture, Venezuelan Government (Guayana Project) 1963-64;

UNESCO advisor, Dominican Republic (Planning Board), 1964;

Director, Caribbean Research Institute, College of the Virgin Is., 1964-66, consultant 1966-67;

Visiting Professor, Univ. of Connecticut, 1966-67;

Visiting Professor, Professor, Clark University, 1967-71;

Professor and Acting Chairman, Geography, University of Puerto Rico, 1971-72, Visiting Professor 1972-74;

Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1972-.

Ethnoscience, cultural ecology, microgeography of peasant agriculture, environmental cognition and map learning in children, theory of nationalism, diffusionism, Eurocentrism, colonialism, philosophy of science.

Field research on peasant agriculture in Singapore (1951- 53), Jamaica (1958-1959), Costa Rica (1960), Venezuela (1963-65), St. Croix (1964-66), St. Vincent (1970), Grenada (1981-83).

Research on environmental learning in children, Puerto Rico (1966-70), St. Vincent (1970), U.S. (1967-74); on Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican community in the US (1974-87);

on Eurocentric diffusionism (1987-93). Field research in Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, US Virgin Is., St. Vincent, Grenada, Singapore, Indonesia.

Planning and advisory work with governments of Singapore, Peru (UN and OAS), Venezuela, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominican Republic (OAS, UNESCO), Grenada.

Invited lectures at Australian National University, Ceylon Agricultural College, Peridiniya, Sri Lanka, Chicago State University, City University of New York, Columbia University, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Howard University, Louisiana State University, McGill University, Northern Illinois University, Northwestern University, Simon Fraser University, Syracuse University, Universidad Nacional de Ingiener 1 a de Per C , Universidad Central de Venezuela, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, University of Indonesia, University of Minnesota, University of California at Los Angeles, University of California at Berkeley, University of Maryland at College Park, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, University of Chicago, University of the District of Columbia, University College- London, Sheffield University (UK), University of California at Santa Cruz, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

Distinguished Scholarship Award for 1997 by the Association of American Geographers.

Grants from Conservation Foundation, National Science Foundation (1960-3, 1995-97), U.S. Office of Education, Organization of American States, Government of Singapore, Government of Venezuela, Government of U.S. Virgin Islands, U.S. Public Health Service, Research Institute for the Study of Man, and other sources.

Other grants from American Council of Learned Societies, American Conservation Association, Vocational Rehabilitation Admin. Government of U.S. Virgin Is., etc.

"Chinese Market-Gardening in Singapore: A Study in Functional Microgeography." Unpub. Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 1958. Also presented as Report no. 3, Singapore Rural Economy Survey.

The National Question: Decolonizing the Theory of Nationalism. London: Zed Books, 1987. Pp. 232+viii. Hardbound and paperbound.

Aspectos de la cuesti ; n nacional en Puerto Rico. J.M. Blaut and Loida Figueroa. San Juan: Editorial Claridad, 1988. Pp. 124.

Fourteen Ninety-Two: The Debate on Colonialism, Eurocentrism, and History, by J. M. Blaut, principal author, with contributions by S. Amin, R. Dodgshon, A. G. Frank, and R. Palan, and with intro by P. J. Taylor. Africa World Press, Trenton, 1992. All but the introduction are a republication of the debate in Political Geography, summer, 1992. 136 pp.

The Colonizer's Model of the World: Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History. New York: Guilford Press, 1993. Pp. 250.

"The economic geography of a one-acre farm in Singapore: A study in applied microgeography." Journal of Tropical Geography, 1, 1953:37-48.

"The language of maps." The Professional Geographer, 6(n.s.), 1954 :9-11.

"Micro-regional sample surveys in applied agricultural geography: A preliminary statement." Proceedings, Louisiana Academy of Sciences, 17, 1954:100-107.

"A study of cultural determinants of soil erosion and conservation in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica." Social and Economic Studies, 8,1959:403-420.

(Senior author with 3 co- authors.) "The ecology of tropical farming systems." Invited paper read at the Symposium on Plantation Systems of the New World, Pan American Union and Research Institute for the Study of Man, San Juan, P.R., 1957. Pub. in: V. Rubin, ed., Plantation Systems of the New World. Washington: Pan American Union, 1959.

"Microgeographic sampling: A quantitative approach to regional agricultural geography." Economic Geography, 35,1959:79-88. [Reprint]

"The ecology of tropical farming systems." Revista Geografica, 28,1959:47-67.

"Southeast Asia." Encyclopedia Britannica, 1960 ed., pp. 1016-1017.

"Sunda Islands and Straits." Encyclopedia Britannica, 1960 ed., pp. 418-419.

"Space and process." The Professional Geographer, 13,4(n.s.),1961:1-7.

"Object and relationship." The Professional Geographer, 14,6(n.s.),1962:1-7. h)

"The nature and effects of shifting agriculture. Invited paper read at the 1960 UNESCO symposium,

"The Effects of Man on Humid-Tropics Vegetation." Published in the proceedings volume: Administration of the Territory of Papua and New Guinea and UNESCO Science Cooperation Office for Southeast Asia, eds., Symposium on the Impact of Man on Humid-Tropics Vegetation. Canberra: Australian Government Printers, 1962.

"Geography and the development of peasant agriculture." Chapter in: S.B. Cohen, ed., Problems and Trends in American Geography. N.Y.:Basic Books, 1967.

"Jingo geography: Part I." Antipode, 1,1,1969:10-13.

"Realistic models of peasant agriculture." Chapter in: A.J. Field, ed., Town and Country in the Third World. Boston: Schenkman, 1970.

"Environmental mapping in young children. Environment and Behavior, 2,3,1970:335-349. (Senior author with G.S.McCleary and A.S. Blaut.)

"Geographic models of imperialism." Antipode, 2,1,1970:65- 85.

"The use of aerial photographs in teaching mapping to children in the first grade: An experimental study. The Minnesota Geographer, 22,3,1970:5-21.

(Merrie Muir and J.M. Blaut.) "Studies of geographic learning." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 61,1971:387-393.

(J.M. Blaut and David Stea.) "Space, structure, and maps." Tijdschrift voor Econ. en Social Geografie, 62,1971:1-4.

"Some preliminary observations on spatial learning in Puerto Rican school children." Proceedings of the Second Conference on the Family in the Caribbean, Aruba, 1970. R 1 o Piedras: University of Puerto Rico, 1972. [Reprint]

"Space and process." Chapter in: W.K. Davies, ed., The Conceptual Revolution in Geography. London, 1972.

"Notes toward a developmental theory of spatial learning." Chapter in: Roger Downs and David Stea, eds., Image and Environment. Chicago: Aldine, 1973.

(David Stea and J.M. Blaut) "Spatial learning in Puerto Rican school children." Chapter in: Roger Downs and David Stea, eds., Image and Environment. Chicago: Aldine, 1973.

(David Stea and J.M. Blaut) [Reprint] "Studies of geographic learning." J.M. Blaut and David Stea. Chapter in: N. Graves, ed., Perspectives on Geographic Education. London, 1973.

"The theory of development." Antipode 5,2,1973:22-27.

"The ghetto as an internal neocolony." In: R. Morrill and J. Eichenbaum, eds., New Perspectives in Urban Location Theory. Special number of Antipode, 6,1,1974:37-42.

"Mapping at the age of three." Journal of Geography, 73,7,1974:5-9.

(J.M. Blaut and David Stea.) "Are Puerto Ricans a `national minority'?" Journal of Contemporary Puerto Rican Thought, 2,2-3,1975:117-129.

"Imperialism." Antipode, 7,1,1975:1-19.

[German translation of "The ghetto as an internal neocolony] "Das Ghetto als interne Neokolonie." Geografie in Planung und Ausbildung, 5,1976.

"Where was capitalism born?" Antipode, 8,2,1976:1-11.

"Two views of diffusion." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 67,1977:343-349.

"Are Puerto Ricans a National Minority?" Expanded, revised version of 1975a. Monthly Review, 29,9,1977:35-55. [Reprint]

"The theory of development." Chapter in: Richard Peet, ed., Radical Geography: Alternative Viewpoints on Contemporary Social Issues. Chicago: Maaroufa, 1977. [Reprint]

"Where was capitalism born?" Chapter in: Richard Peet, ed., Radical Geography: Alternative Viewpoints on Contemporary Social Issues. Chicago: Maaroufa, 1977.

[Italian translation of "Are Puerto Ricans a National Minority?"] "I portoricano sono una minoranza nazionale?" MR Edizione Italiana, 10,6, 1977:11-19.

[Spanish translation of "Are Puerto Ricans a National Minority?"] Revista Mensual (Barcelona), 1,6,1977:20-38. Also published in Pensamiento Criico (Puerto Rico), 1,2,1977:1-16.

[Spanish translation of "Where Was Capitalism Born?"] "Donde nacio el capitalismo?" Documents D'analisi Metodologic en Geografia (University of Barcelona), 1,1978:7-27.

"Response to Slater." Antipode, 10,1,1978:96-97.

"The dissenting tradition." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 691979:157-164. (Seventy-Five Years of American Geography: Special Number of Annals of the Association of American Geographers celebrating the 75th birthday of the Association of American Geographers. Invited paper.)

"Some principles of ethnogeography." Chapter in: Stephen Gale and Gunnar Olsson, eds., Philosophy in Geography. Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979. Pp. 1-7.

"A radical critique of cultural geography." Antipode, 12,2,1980:25-30.

"Nairn on nationalism." Antipode, 12,3,1980:1-17.

"Theses on peasantry." Antipode, 12. (J.M. Blaut, K. Johnson, P. O'Keefe, and B. Wisner.)

"Ghettos are real, not ideal." Transition, 11,3,1981:10-14.

"Nationalism as an autonomous force." Science and Society, 46,1,1982:1-23.

"El mito de la asimilacion." En Rojo/Claridad, 1982.

"Pringle on `bourgeois nationalist ideology'." Antipode, 14,21982:33-39.

"The motor of history." Transition, 13,4,1983:2-20.

(J.M. Blaut, R. McNee, W. Peterman, and L. Wolf) "Assimilation versus ghettoization." Antipode, 15,11983:35- 42.

"Modesty and the Movement." In: T.F. Saarinen et al., Environmental Perception and Behavior: An Inventory and Prospect, Chicago: University of Chicago Dept. of Geography, Research Paper No. 209, 1984.

"Commentary on Nostrand's `Hispanos' and their `homeland'." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 74,1984:157-164.

J.M. Blaut and A. R 1 os-Bustamante. [Reprint, revised] "Geographic models of imperialism." In: Richard Peet, ed., The Best of Antipode, 1969-1985. Antipode 17,2-3,1985. [Reprint, revised]

"The ghetto as an internal neocolony." In: Richard Peet, ed., The Best of Antipode, 1969-1985. Antipode 17,2-3, 1985.

"A theory of nationalism." Antipode, 18,1,1986:5-11.

[German translation of "The Tradition of Dissent"] "Die tradition der Dissenz." Kritische Geographie (Austria), 4,1986:8-19.

"Diffusionism: A uniformitarian critique." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 77,1987:30-47.

"Place perception in perspective." Journal of Environmental Psychology, 7,4,1987:297-306.

"Notes toward a theory of mapping behavior." Children's Environments Quarterly, 4,4,1987:27-34.

"When did Europe rise?" Studies in Comparative International Development, 22,1987-88:26-32, and 22,1:54,1988 (correction notice re title).

"Colonialism and the Rise of Capitalism." Science & Society 53,3,1989:260-296.

"Natural mapping." Transactions, Institute of British Geographers, 16,ns,1,1991:55-74.

"The Theory of Cultural Racism." Antipode 23 (1992): 289- 299.

"Fourteen Ninety-Two." Political Geography Quarterly, 11, 4 1992:355-385. This paper was the centerpiece of the Quincentennial number of this journal. Samir Amin, Robert Dodgshon, Andre Gunder Frank, and S. Palan have contributed commentaries. "Response to comments by Amin, Frank, Dodgshon, and Palan." Political Geography Quarterly 11,4,1992):407-412. [Reprint]

"Nostrand's 'Hispanos' and their 'Homeland'," by J. M. Blaut and Antonio R 1 os-Bustamante. In: A. R 1 os- Bustamante, ed., Regions of the Raza: Changing Perspectives on Mexican-American Regional History. Encino, CA: Floricanto Press, 1993.

Reprint of "Commentary on Nostrand's `Hispanos' and their `homeland'," Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 74,1984:157-164.

J.M. Blaut and A. R 1 os-Bustamante. "Mind and Matter in Cultural Geography." in: K. Mathewson, ed., Culture, Form, and Place: Essays in Cultural and Historical Geography, pp. 345-356. Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, 1994.

"Diffusionism: A Uniformitarian Critique." In the volume, Re-reading Cultural Geography, ed. K. Foote, P. Hugill, K. Mathewson, and J. Smith, University of Texas Press, 1994. Pp. 179-197. (Reprint with minor corrections and added bibliographic essay of "Diffusionism: A Uniformitarian Critique," Annals of the Association of American Geographers 1987).

"Robert Brenner In the Tunnel of Time." Antipode 26:4, 1994, pp. 351-374.

"Mapping as a Cultural Universal," by David Stea, J. M. Blaut, and Jennifer Stephens. In J. Portugali, ed., The Construction of Cognitive Maps. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

"The Mapping Abilities of Four-Year-Old Children in York, England." Journal of Geography 95(1996):107-111.

By S. Sowden, J. Blaut, D. Stea, M. Blades, and C. Spencer. "Children Can." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 87, no. 1, March, 1997, pp. 152-158.

"Piagetian Pessimism and the Mapping Abilities of Young Children." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, vol. 87, no. 1, March, 1997, pp. 168-177.

"Eurocentrism, Diffusionism, and the Assessment of Tropical Soil Productivity." Forthcoming in Tropical Agriculture.

"Geography and the Colonizer's Model of the World." Keynote address at the First International Geography Conference: Critical Choices for Change in South Africa (July 10-14, 1995). Forthcoming in the conference Proceedings (Durban: University of Durban-Westville).

"The Mapping Abilities of Preschool-Age Children: A Cross- Cultural Generalization." Presented at the First International Geography Conference: Critical Choices for Change in South Africa (July 10-14, 1995). Forthcoming in the conference Proceedings (Durban: University of Durban- Westville).

"Evaluating Imperialism." Forthcoming in Science & Society.

"El mapeo como universal en la cultura." By D. Stea, J. Blaut, and S. Elguea. Forthcoming in Revista Interamericana de Psicologie.

Minor Publications and Unpublished Reports (a selection)

Review of Griffith Taylor, ed. Geography in the Twentieth Century (3rd ed.). In: Science, 127,1957:1041-1042.

Review of B. LeRoy Gordon, Human Geography and Ecology in the Country of Colombia. In: Revista Interamericana de Bibliografia 8,1958:156-157.

Review of Helmut Blume, Die gegenwertigen Wandlungen in der Verbreitung von Gross- und Kleinbetrieben auf den Grossen Antillen. In: Caribbean Studies 2,3,1962:75-76.

Review of David Edwards, An Economic Study of Small Farming in Jamaica. In: Caribbean Studies, 2,4,1962:39-40.

Review of M. Quaini, Geography and Marxism. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 73,1983:450-452.

Review of Stuart Corbridge, Capitalist World Development. The Professional Geographer. 41,1,1989:102-103.

Review of J. Baechler et al., Europe and the Rise of Capitalism. Progress in Human Geography 13,3,1989:441-448,

Review of Boal and Livingstone, The behavioural environment. The Professional Geographer, 43,1991:243-244.

Review of C. Spencer, et. al., The Child in the physical environment, Progress in Human Geography 15,2,1991:244-246.

Review of P. Curtin, The Rise and Fall of the Plantation Complex: Essays in Atlantic History, Journal of Historical Geography 17,4,1991:472-474.

Review of R. Peet, Global Capitalism, Science & Society, 1993

Review of J. Goody, The East in the West, forthcoming in Science & Society.

[Co-editor, discussant, and contributor of summarizing address] Conservation in the Eastern Caribbean: Proceedings of the First Eastern Caribbean Conservation Conference, St. Thomas: Caribbean Research Institute, College of the Virgin Islands, 1966.

"Studies in Developmental Geography." Place Perception Research Reports, no. 1. Clark University, 1969. Pp. 50.

"The Use of Aerial Photographs in Teaching Maps to Children in the First Grade: An Experimental Study." (Merrie E. Muir and J.M. Blaut.) In: David Stea, ed., "Working Papers in Place Perception. Place Perception Research Reports, no. 3. Clark University, 1969.

"Place Learning." (J. M. Blaut and David Stea.) Place Perception Research Reports, no. 4. Clark University, 1970.. Pp. 49.

Commentary. In: A. Buttimer, Values in Geography. Commission on College Geography, Association of American Geographers, 1974.

"Canal Zone Analogs I: Analogs of Canal Zone Climate in Middle America." Technical Reports, Quartermaster Climatic Analog Series, no. EP-87, 1958. Pp. 20 + 15 multicolor maps.

(J. V. Chambers and Pfc. J.M. Blaut.) "An economic and geographic survey of 170 Farms in the Lower Kallang Plain of Singapore." Report no. 1, Singapore Rural Economy Survey. Singapore. Dept. of Agriculture, 1953, mimeo.

Type-of-farming map of Singapore. Report no. 2, Singapore Rural Economy Survey (no text). Singapore, Department of Agriculture, 1953.

"Chinese Market-Gardening in Singapore: A Study in Functional Microgeography." Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, 1958. Pp. 400. Also presented as Report no. 3, Singapore Rural Economy Survey.

"Report of the OAS-UN Technical Assistance Mission to Peru to Advise on the Establishment of the Interamerican Post- Graduate Program in Urban and Regional Planning." Washington, Organization of American States, 1959. Pp. 38, mimeo.

(L. Vera, W. Harris, J. Blaut, co-authors.) "An Ecological Study of Swidden Agriculture." Final report to the National Science Foundation, Environmental Biology Program, 1961.

"Interamerican Program for Advanced Social-Science Studies in the Caribbean Area. Report, 1961-1962. Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, Pan American Union and University of Puerto Rico, 1962. Pp. 95, mimeo.

"Preliminary Inquiry on the Structure of Rural Marketing in Guayana." Unpublished report of the Investigation of Farm Production Potential in Guayana" (a study directed by J. M. Blaut and undertaken on behalf of the Government of Venezuela, Corporaci ; n Venezolana de Guayana. (Senior author with Norberto Montes F. and Hector Gonzales M.) 1964.

"Program for Controlling Forest Fires and Increasing Farm and Forest Production through the Establishment of Agro- Forestal Conuquero Settlements. Unpublished report of the Investigation of Farm Production Potential in Guayana" (a study directed by J. M. Blaut and undertaken on behalf of the Government of Venezuela, Corporaci ; n Venezolana de Guayana. 1964.

"Generalized Map of Land Capability for Campesino Agriculture in Guayana." 1:500,000 map with accompanying text. Unpublished report of the Investigation of Farm Production Potential in Guayana" (a study directed by J. M. Blaut and undertaken on behalf of the Government of Venezuela, Corporaci ; n Venezolana de Guayana, 1964. (Arthur Heyman and J.M. Blaut.)

"Economic Geography of the Farms of Distrito Piar." Unpublished report of the Investigation of Farm Production Potential in Guayana" (a study directed by J. M. Blaut and undertaken on behalf of the Government of Venezuela, Corporaci ; n Venezolana de Guayana, 1964.

"Annual Report, Caribbean Research Institute, 1965." Unpublished report of the Caribbean Research Institute, College of the Virgin Islands, to the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands.

"A Study of Air Terminal and Airfield Space Utilization in St. Thomas." Unpublished report of the Caribbean Research Institute, College of the Virgin Islands, to the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands, 1965. (T.R. Herrick and J.M. Blaut.)

"Report to the Government of the United States Virgin Islands on the Reconstruction of the Agricultural Economy of St. Croix." Unpublished report of the Caribbean Research Institute, College of the Virgin Islands, to the government of the U.S. Virgin Is. 1965. J.M. Blaut, F.X. Mark, and A.E. Damman.