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Jan Nijman, Ph.D.
(University of Colorado, 1990)Professor Emeritus
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Professor Nijmanís interests are in urban and regional development, globalization, and comparative urbanism. His regional interests include metropolitan Miami and Mumbai, with over a decade of fieldwork experience in India. He is an elected member of the National Geographic Societyís Committee for Research & Exploration of the NGS and Director of the University of Miamiís Urban Studies program. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2003 and is a recipient of the Nystrom Award of the Association of American Geographers. His research has been published in The Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Urban Geography, the Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, among other journals.
Recent Book
Miami: Mistress of the Americas. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011
Other Recent Publications:
- "Mumbai as a global city. A theoretical essay." In: B. Derudder, M. Hoyler, P.J. Taylor & F. Witlox (eds.), International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities. Edward Elgar (in press).
- "A study of space in Mumbai's slums." Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie 101 (2010): 4-17.
- The World Today: Concepts and Regions in Geography. Wiley, 2010 (with H.J. de Blij, P.O. Muller, and A. Winkler-Prins).
- "Against the odds: Slum rehabilitation in neoliberal Mumbai." Cities 25 (2008): 75-87.
- "Comparative Urbanism." Urban Geography vol. 28 (2007): 1-6.
Courses taught:
- GEG 430 World Cities
- GEG 501 Place, Region, Nature
- URB 201 Metropolitan Miami
- URB 301 Cities in Time & Space
