MILITARY BACKGROUND:

• Retired as Major General, last assigned to HQ USAF, Pentagon, Washington, DC.

 

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:

 

Status:

• Emeritus Professor of Geography, Department of Global and Sociocultural

Studies, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.

 

Academic Employment History:

• Assistant, 1974, Associate, 1977, Professor, 1982- 2009, Department of

• International Relations, Florida International University.

  • Director, Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies, Florida

• International University, August 1999-August 2005.

• Visiting Professor, MAIA Program, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida,

• August 2009-May 2012.

 

Academic Honors:

• Ryder Corporation Excellence in Teaching Award, Florida International

      University, 1985.

• Appointed Faculty Member, Salzburg Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, 1993.

• Professorial Excellence Program Award, State University System of Florida,

      1996.

• Distinguished University Service Medallion, Florida International University,

      December 2009.

 

Publications (Books):

• Research Guide to the Russian and Soviet Censuses, edited and with one chapter by Ralph Clem, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1986.

• Nationality and Population Change in Russia and the USSR, with Robert A Lewis and Richard H Rowland, NY: Praeger, 1976.

• The Soviet West: Interplay Between Nationality and Social Organization, edited and with two chapters by Ralph Clem, NY: Praeger, 1975.

• Venezuelan Petro-Diplomacy: Hugo Chavez’s Foreign Policy, edited with and with an introduction with Anthony P Maingot, Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2011.

 

EDUCATION:

• B.A., San Diego State College, 1965, Geography.

• M.A., Columbia University, 1972, Geography.

• Ph.D., Columbia University, 1976, Geography with a concentration in

      Soviet Studies.

 

CLEARANCE:

Top Secret