[Reginald Golledge Distinguished Lecture] Why Geography is a cognitive science
Speaker
Dr. Daniel MontelloLocation
Buchanan 1930Info
About Dr. Montello
Daniel R. Montello is a Professor of Geography and an Affiliated Professor of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), where he has been on the faculty since 1992. Before that, he was Visiting Assistant Professor at North Dakota State University and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota. Dan got his Ph.D. at Arizona State University in 1988 and his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1981. His educational background is in environmental, cognitive, and developmental psychology. Dan has authored or co-authored over 100 articles and chapters and co-authored or edited 7 books. He currently co-edits the academic journal Spatial Cognition and Computation and serves on the Editorial Boards of Environment and Behavior and the Journal of Environmental Psychology. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on behavioral and cognitive geography and GIScience, introductory human geography, research methods, statistical analysis, and the regional geography of the United States.
About the Reginald Golledge Distinguished Lecture
The Golledge Distinguished Lecture was instituted in 1984 when Prof. Reginald Golledge lost his sight. Without vision, a major problem Golledge had was how to keep up with research in his fields of interest. The Department, with prompting from professors Waldo Tobler and David Simonett, decided to set up a named Distinguished Lecture Series. The intent was that Golledge would be able to invite the distinguished person whose work related to his interest areas to the department for 3-4 days a year, so he could interact with them and catch up on the latest in ongoing research. Contributions were solicited from the discipline and from Department members, and a fund was set up with the UCSB Development office to help pay the expenses of bringing in such a person.
