David J. Robinson,

Dellplain Professor of Latin American Geography

drobins@maxwell.syr.edu 
 

B.A. Geography, University College London
Ph.D. Geography, University College London

Academic appointments
1999, Faculty Associate, Faculty Computing and Media Services 
1987-1999, Director, Latin American Studies Program (Graduate)
1995-1997, Director, Latino-Latin American Studies Program (Undergraduate)
1983 to present, Dellplain Professor of Latin American Geography, Syracuse University
1973-1983, Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University
1964-1973, Lecturer in Latin American Geography, University College London

Visiting appointments
University of Cambridge,1969-70
University of Liverpool, 1968
Imperial College London, 1972
Geographical Advisor to the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1965-67
Director, Syracuse University Technical Assistance Program to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Government of Peru, "Integrated Regional Development Project", 1981-1984

Editorial positions
Co-Editor, Journal of Historical Geography, 1999 -
Editor, Dellplain Latin American Studies, 1979-1995

Awards and Honors
2002 Outstanding Service Award, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Association of American Geographers

Appointed U. S. Representative to the Geography Commission, Panamerican Institute of Geography and History, 2000

Fulbright-Hays Scholar (Peru), 1995-1996

Eminent Latin Americanist Career Award
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Association of American Geographers, 1992

Guggenheim Fellowship, 1991-92

Fulbright-Hays Scholar (American Republics: Venezuela), 1990-91

National Geographic Society Research Grant (Colca Valley, Peru), 1989.

American Council of Learned Societies Grant (Peru), 1988.

Fulbright-Hays Distinguished Scholar and Lecturer (Brazil), 1987-88

William Waldorf Astor Foundation Research Award, 1963-64 

Principal publications
Laricollaguas: población, economía y espacio
(forthcoming, 2003, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Lima)

El correo colonial de Nueva Granada: Informe de don Antonio Pando      
(forthcoming, 2003, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá)

Co-Editor Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997).

Editor Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994).

Editor Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993).

Mil leguas por América: de Lima a Caracas, 1740-1741. Diario de don Miguel de Santisteban. (Santafé de Bogotá: Banco de la República, 1991).

Editor Migration in Colonial Spanish America. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990).

Relación de la Provincia de Antioquia por Francisco Silvestre Sánchez. (Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Medellín, Colombia, 1988).

Catálogo del Archivo del Registro Público de la Propiedad de Guadalajara: Libros de Hipotecas, 1566-1820. (Gobierno de Jalisco, Guadalajara, Mexico, 1986) (with Linda Greenow).

Studies in Spanish American Population History. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1981).

Research Inventory of the Mexican Collection of Colonial Parish Registers. (Salt Lake: University of Utah Press, 1980).

Editor Studying Latin America: Essays in Honor of Preston E. James. (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1980).

Editor Social Fabric and Spatial Structure in Colonial Latin America (Ann Arbor: UMI, 1979).