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Daniel Knudsen | Faculty

Daniel Knudsen Professor, Department of Geography

Office: SB 306
TEL: 855-4083
Email: knudsen@indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., 1984, Indiana

Research

  • Cultural Geography
  • Landscape and Tourism Geography

Current Projects

  • Landscape, Tourism and Meaning
  • Touring Denmark: Heritage Tourism and Aesthetics

Teaching

  • L800: Introduction to Landscape Studies
  • G380: Cultural Geography
  • I300: Theory and Method in International Studies

Representative Publications

  • D.C. Knudsen, M.M. Metro-Roland, A.K. Soper, and C.E. Greer (eds).(2008) Landscape, Tourism and Meaning. Aldershot, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate.
  • D.C. Knudsen and C.E. Greer (2008). “Heritage Tourism, Heritage Landscapes and Wilderness Preservation: The Case of National Park Thy.” Journal of Heritage Tourism 3(1): 18-35.
  • D.C. Knudsen, A.K. Soper and M. Metro-Roland (2007). “Gazing, Performing and Reading: A Landscape Approach to Understanding Meaning in Tourism Theory.” Tourism Geographies 9(3): 227-233.

Service

  • Director, International Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences
  • Director, Landscape Studies PhD Minor Program, University Graduate School

Student Theses

  • Brian Johnson, Ph.D., in progress
  • Christine Mathenge, Ph.D., in progress
  • Michelle Metro-Roland, Ph.D., in progress
  • Elizabeth Vidon, Ph.D., in progress
  • Lei Xu, M.A., in progress
  • Brian Johnson, Nature, Isolation, and Affordability: An Examination of Exurban Migration Motivations in Indiana, Illinois, and Texas, M.A., 2006
  • Anne Soper, Cultural Heritage, Identity, and Tourism in Mauritius: Moving Beyond the Tourist Graze, Ph.D., 2006
  • Zhigang Tang, The Urban Housing Market in a Transitional Economy: Shanghai as a Case Study, Ph.D., 2006
  • Altynai Yespembetova, Tourism Development in the Republic of Kazakhstan, M.A., 2005
  • Nikolas Heynen, The Social Processes Contributing to Urban Environmental Change: Indianapolis's Inner-city Urban Trees, 1962-1993, Ph.D., 2002
  • Wenjie Sun, The Geography of the Internet, M.A., 2002
  • Brent C. Smith, Locational, Organizational and Interorganizational Determinants of Community Development Financial Intermediary Activity, Ph.D., 2001