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Chris Post

Department of Geography
Professor
Campus:
Stark
Office Hours:
Office Hours: MW 8:30-10:30, TR 1-3
Contact Information
Email:
cpost2@kent.edu
Phone:
330-244-3427

Biography

I research cultural and historical geography, focusing on the heritage of place, particularly as it becomes manifest through commemoration, place naming and sense of place. I am currently finalizing a co-edited book (with Alyson Greiner and Geoffrey Buckly), Routledge Handbook to the American Landscape. The book will be available on Feb. 14, 2023, in both hard copy and e-book versions. I have published chapters in the books Affective Architectures, Company Towns in the Americas, Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies, and Explorations in Place Attachment, and in the journals Acme (forthcoming), Geoforum, Area, Professional Geographer, Geographical Review, Journal of Cultural Geography, Journal of Geography, and Historical Geography. 
 

 

Courses Teaching

Fall 2022
  • World Geography
  • Human Geography
  • Population and Environment

Education

PhD: Geography University of Kansas (2006) MA: Geography University of Kansas (2003) BS: Secondary Education University of Oklahoma (2000)

Expertise

Cultural Landscape Historical Geography North America Commemoration and Heritage May 4 Company Towns

Publications

  • Post, C., Alyson L. Greiner, and Geoffrey L. Buckley, eds. 2023 The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape. Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Post, C. and Mark A. Rhodes. 2022 “Decolonizing Memory Work? Textual Politics of Settler Sate Historical Markers Engaging Indigenous Peoples in Kansas,” in “Monuments, Memorials, and the Politics of Place,” edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Ian Baird, and Em
  • Rhodes, Mark A. and C. Post. 2021 Refraining on Necropolitics: Lyrical Geographies of Labor Music. Journal of Cultural Geography 38 (3): 378-398.
  • Post, C.2020 Placing Affective Architectures in Landscapes of Public Pedagogy. In Affective Architectures: More-than-representational Approaches to Heritage, eds. J. Micieli-Voutsinas and A. Person. Series: Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion, and Aff
  • Cromley, Gordon and Post, C. 2020 The Preservation of Paradox: Bismarck Towers at National Metaphor and Local Reality. Historical Geography, GIScience and Text: Mapping Landscapes of Time and Place, eds. Charles Travis, Alexander von Lünen and Francis Lud
  • Post, C. and Rhodes, M. 2019. “Lyrical geographies and the topography of social resistance in popular music.” in The Changing World Language Map, eds. Stan Brunn and Roland Kehrein. New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_70-1
  • Post, C. 2018. "Making Place through the Memorial Landscape." Chapter 5 in Explorations in Place Attachment, ed. Jeffrey S. Smith. Routledge.
  • Post, C. 2016. "Beyond Kent State? May 4 and Commemorating Violence in Public Space." Geoforum 76: 142-152.
  • Post, C. and Rhodes, M. 2019 “Lyrical geographies and the topography of social resistance in popular music.” In The Changing World Language Map, eds. Stan Brunn and Roland Kehrein. New York: Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-73400-2_70-1
  • Post, C. 2015. “Seeing the Past in the Present Through Archives and the Landscape.” Chapter 11 In Social Memory and Heritage Tourism Methodologies, eds. Amy Potter, Arnold Modlin, David Butler, Perry Carter, and Stephen Hanna. p. 189-209. Routledge.
  • Sarah S. Smiley and C. Post. 2014. “Using Popular Music to Teach the Geography of the United States and Canada.” Journal of Geography. 113 (6): 238-246.
  • Post, C. and Derek H. Alderman. 2014. “Wiping New Berlin off the Map”: Political Economy and The De-Germanization of the Toponymic Landscape in WWI USA. Area. 46 (1): 83-91.
  • Post C. 2011. “The Making of a Federal Company Town: Sunflower Village, Kansas.” In Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities, eds. Oliver Dinius and Angela Vergara, p. 176-207. University of Georgia Press.
  • Post, C. 2009. “ Reputational Politics and the Symbolic Accretion of John Brown in Kansas.” Historical Geography 37: 92-113.
  • Post, C. 2009. “Rejecting Violence on the Landscape in Lawrence, Kansas.” Geographical Review 99 (2): 186-207.
  • Post, C. 2008. “Modifying Sense of Place in a Federal Company Town: Sunflower Village, Kansas, 1942 to 1959.” Journal of Cultural Geography 25 (2): 137-159.
  • Larsen, Soren, Curt Sorenson, David McDermott, Joshua Long, and C. Post. 2007. “Place Perception and Social Interaction on an Exurban Landscape in Central Colorado.” The Professional Geographer 59 (4): 421-433.

    Documents

    PDF icon Post_CV_20220706.pdf

    News Stories

    Memorials Expert Chris Post Discusses 50th Commemoration of May 4, 1970 National Public Radio’s “The Two Way”. “Jayhawks and Tigers: A Sports Rivalry Born of Blood” by Alan Greenblatt, Aug. 21., 2013
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