Mr. Morris is an historical geographer specializing in the regional geography and environmental history of the North American
West, particularly the Canadian-American Great Plains and coastal Southern California. His teaching experience includes classes in
California, North American, and world geography, as well as introductory human, physical, and urban geography, and environmental studies.
His research and writing interests have included the geographies of frontiers, borderlands, and national/imperial expansion; urban development
and environmental history of the Santa Monica Bay region; bicycles and bicycling as a geographic experience; and football as a global family of sports.
He is presently working on a global historical geography of beer and the brewing industry.
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December 2006
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Review of Annalies Corbin, The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud: or, How Merchants, Mounties,
and the Missouri Transformed the West (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006) in
International Journal of Maritime History 18(2)
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2004
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Entries on Football, Soccer, Rodeo, and Curling, in
Sport
in American Culture: From Ali to X-Games, ed. Joyce
Duncan (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO Publishers)
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2004
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Entries on "Chinook Stories," "Colony of the East," and
"Breadbasket of North America," in
Encyclopedia
of the Great Plains, ed. David J. Wishart (Lincoln:
Univ. of Nebraska Press)
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January 2001
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Review of John Logan Allen, ed., North American
Exploration, 3 volumes (Lincoln: University of Nebraska
Press, 1997) in
Journal of
Historical Geography 27(1)
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Winter 1999
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Review of John Herd Thompson, Forging the Prairie
West (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998) in
American
Review of Canadian Studies 29(4)
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Winter 1996
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Review of Frank Leonard, A Thousand Blunders: The
Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British
Columbia (Vancouver: University of British Columbia
Press, 1996) in
Western
Historical Quarterly 27(4)
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Summer 1996
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Review of Peter J. Lewty, Across the Columbia Plain:
Railroad Expansion in the Interior Northwest, 1885-1893
(Pullman: Washington State University Press, 1995)
inWestern
Historical Quarterly 27(2)
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April 1996
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Review of Roger L. Nichols and Patrick L. Halley,
Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995); and George J.
Goodman and Cheryl A. Lawson, Retracing Major Stephen H.
Long's 1820 Expedition: The Itinerary and Botany
(Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995) in
Journal of
Historical Geography 22(2)
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Autumn 1994
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Review of Carlos A. Schwantes, Railroad Signatures
across the Pacific Northwest (Seattle: University of
Washington Press, 1993)
inWestern
Historical Quarterly 25(3)
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March 2002
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Field Trip. Santa Monica Bay: Two Centuries of
Real Estate Development and Landscape Change. Annual
Meeting, Association of
American Geographers, Los Angeles, California
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August 2001
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"Disturbed Belt or Rancher's Paradise? Exploration and
Place-Making in a Western Canadian-American Borderland."
Eleventh
International Conference of Historical Geographers,
Quebec City
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October 1999
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Fort Macleod of the Borderlands: Using the 49th Parallel
in Southern Alberta. Annual Conference,
Western History
Association, Portland, Oregon
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March 1999
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Regionalism, Nationalism, and the Montana-Alberta
Borderlands: Duncan McEachran of the New Walrond Ranche,
1881-1923. Annual Meeting,
Association of American
Geographers, Honolulu, Hawaii
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October 1998
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Whooping it Up in Chinook Country: Regional Ideas and the
Montana-Alberta Borderlands. Annual Meeting,
Association
of Pacific Coast Geographers, Flagstaff, Arizona
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November 1997
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A Special Kind of Comparative History: Envisioning the
Borderlands of the Northwestern Canadian-American
Grasslands. Biennial Meeting,
Association
for Canadian Studies in the United States, Minneapolis,
Minnesota
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April 1997
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Don't Let the Smooth Line Fool You: The Borders and
Regions of the Canadian-American Plains. Annual Meeting,
Association of American
Geographers, Fort Worth, Texas
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February 1997
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The Persistence of Geography: Space, Place, and the
Evolution of Brewing in the United States. Western Geography
Graduate Student Conference, Tucson, Arizona
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January 1997
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When Maps Fail: Straight-line Metaphors and the Borders
and Regions of the Canadian-American Plains. Annual Meeting,
American Historical
Association, New York City
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October 1995
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"Neighbor Ground" Along the "Medicine Line": The
Canadian-American Plains as a Borderland." Annual
Conference, Western
History Association, Denver, Colorado
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April 1994
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Where is the American West? Creating a Base Map for a New
Regional History. Annual Meeting,
Association of American
Geographers, San Francisco, California
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October 1993
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The Windy City was the Pits? Frank Norris's View of the
Board of Trade in Nineteenth-Century Chicago. Annual
Meeting, West Lakes Division of the
Association of American
Geographers, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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