Condensed Vitae

(Sonny) Cyrus B. Dawsey III

Fax: 334-844-3409 E-mail: dawsecb@auburn.edu

Present Position:

* Professor Emeritus, Department of Geology/Geography, Auburn University, AL.

Degrees:

B.A., Fla. State U., 1967;
M.S., Fla. State U., 1968;
PhD., U. of Florida, 1975.

Books:

The Confederados: Old South Immigrants in Brazil; 1995, U. of Alabama Press. This book, jointly authored with James M. Dawsey, describes the post-Civil War migration of former Confederates, the survival of the group's culture, and the influence on Brazilian society.  Translated by the authors into Portuguese:  Americans: Imigrantes do Velho Sul no Brazil (2005: Editora Unimep).

Articles and Presentations:

Over 80 refereed articles, proceedings, and reviews in: Journal of Geography, Journal of Cultural Geography, Geografia, Cartographica, Revista Geografica, CLAG Yearbook, The Southeastern Geographer, Ecumene, Latin America in Books, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, and others. Over 60 presentations at professional meetings and special events. Principal research interests: computer applications in geography, location analysis, cartography, Latin American migration, geographic education, and the settlement history of Brazil.

Sample Publications:

Dawsey, Cyrus, "Geography" in Eakin, Marshall C.; Almeida, Paulo R.; and Barbosa, Rubens A. (Eds), Envisioning Brazil: A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States, 1945-2003. 2005. University of Wisconsin Press, 309-344.
__,"How High Am I? Computing Elevations from DEMs Using Geomedia Professional and Geomedia Grid" Geospatial World Conference Proceedings Huntsville: 2005.
__, "Estudos geográficos do Brasil nos Estados Unidos e no Canadá: tendências e perspectivas, 1945-2000" in Almeida, P. R., Eakins, M. C., and Barbosa, R. A., eds. O Brasil dos brasilianistas: um guia dos estudos sobre o Brasil nos Estados Unidos. 2002. Sao Paulo; editora Paz e Terra. pp 334 -382.
__, "Tendencias recientes en estudios de Brasil por geografos norteamericanos" Tiempos de America (Spain), Vol 10 - 2003, 27-42.
__, and Dawsey, James M. "Confederados e Metodistas no Brasil" in Amos Nascimento (ed), Brasil: Perspetivas internacionais. 2002. UNIMEP University Press. pp 135-172.
__,"An American Colony in Brazil; Revisited," Geografia Vol 18(1), April, 1993
__, "Migration in Brazil; Research During the 1980's,"Martinson, Tom L. (Ed.), Benchmark 1990. Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers. Vol 17/18, 1992, 109-116.
__, and Bailey, William H., "Roundball Geography: a Successful Grass Roots Geographic Education Program," Journal of Geography.Vol 91(6), Nov/Dec, 1992
__, "Algorithms for Uniform Range Interval Classification," Cartographica. Vol 27 (1), Spring, 1990, 46-53.
__, "Local Change at the Urban-Rural Fringe in Southeast Brazil," Journal of Cultural Geography. Vol. 9 (2), Spring/Summer, 1989, 91-102.

Courses Taught:

World Regional; Economic Geography; Cultural Geography; World Resources; Manufacturing Geography; Latin American Regional; Cartography; Urban Geography; Location Analysis; Society, Culture & Environment (interdepartmental); Society, Culture & Environment (Honors section); Geographic Methods and Techniques; Seminar in GIS; and Foreign Internship in Geography.

Computer Software:

Choromap; A fully integrated choropleth mapping package, Bassett Geographic.

Selected Grants and Consultancies:

Sole investigator or major contributor in developing the following funded grants: Minority student recruitment, U.S. D.of Education - $108,680; "Fried Chicken Under the Southern Cross" public discussion grant, Alabama Humanities Foundation - $17,195; School Rezoning Project, City of Huntsville - $4,000; ARIS land inventory system, NASA - $300,000.  GIS Feasibility Study, Highway Research Center -$29,000; Intergraph Software Campus license agreement.

Professional Service:
Editorial reviewer for 12 different journals and publishers; Active member of 7 professional geography and Latin Americanist associations. Positions held: state representative, steering committee, local arrangements committees, program committees, resolutions committee, board of directors, teaching committee, proceedings editor, and treasurer.

University Service:

Department of Geography Chairman, Director of the Institute for Latin American Studies, Committees on Athletics, water resources, academic computing, curriculum, Senate rules, various searches, Faculty Senate, AAUP (President), and advisor to several student clubs.