- Dr. Amanda Rees, a British native, received her B.A. from West London Institute, her masters from the University of Wyoming, and her Ph.D. from the University of Kansas. She teaches the World Regional Geography core course, American Landscapes, and the Cultural Geography topics course that ranges from regionalism and suburbanization to tourism.
She has recently edited the book The Great Plains Region (2004) and has written the following articles "A Classless Society: Dude Ranching in the Tetons 1908-1955" Annals of Wyoming (2005) and "The Buffalo Commons: Plains Residents Responses to a Radical Vision" Great Plains Research (2005). She has also published on Great Plains folklore, the future of the Great Plains, the recent architectural and planning movement New Urbanism. She is presently working on a book-length manuscript on dude ranching and the construction of region in the American West.
While completing her Ph.D., Dr. Rees met her husband David, a Kentucky native, and in 2001 they welcomed their daughter Gwyneth into the world, a person who keeps them both busy and laughing.
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Amanda Rees
Assistant Professor
(Ph.D. University of Kansas)
Cultural Geography, Urban Spaces, Tourism, Regionalsim
Tel: 706-565-3634
Fax: 706-256-9598
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