Devivo, M: Leadership in American Academic Geography
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Leadership in American Academic Geography: The Twentieth Century examines the practice of leadership in the most influential geography departments in the United States. Throughout the twentieth century, transformational leaders often emerged as inspirational department chairs, shaping the content and nature of the discipline and establishing models of leadership, often fueling the success of programs and sparking shifts in paradigms. Yet, on occasion, departmental chairmanships fell to individuals marked by laissez faire attributes, lapses in integrity, or autocratic behaviors, which at times led to disaster. Effective leaders within key academic departments played imperative roles in the discipline's prosperity, and in contrast, mediocrity in leadership contributed to periods of austerity. Michael S. DeVivo aims to offer not only a historical perspective on the geographic discipline, but also insight to leaders in geography, today and in the future, so that they might be able to avoid failure and instead develop strategies for success by recognizing effective leadership behaviors that foster high levels of achievement.
DeVivo employs a historical narrative in offering a critical review of the most influential leaders in American academic geography during the twentieth century. Geographers with interest in the history of the discipline, as well as academic leaders and scholars in leadership, will appreciate this book.
Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: The Ascent of American Academic GeographyChapter 3: Transformational Leadership at Chicago: The Post-Salisbury YearsChapter 4: Paradoxical Leadership at WisconsinChapter 5: Lackluster Leadership at MichiganChapter 6: From Tyranny to Transformational Leadership at MinnesotaChapter 7: The Struggle for Distinction at Ohio StateChapter 8: The Transformational Leadership of E. Willard Miller and Penn State GeographyChapter 9: George Cressey and Preston James at SyracuseChapter 10: The Transactional Leadership of Wallace Atwood and the Emergence of Geography at ClarkChapter 11: Duplicity and Deception at Johns HopkinsChapter 12: Laissez Faire Leadership at Harvard and Geography's DemiseChapter 13: G. Donald Hudson's Transformational Leadership at NorthwesternChapter 14: G. Donald Hudson's Transformational Leadership at WashingtonChapter 15: Iowa's Rise to ProminenceChapter 16: Transformational Leadership at UCLAChapter 17: The Legacy of Carl Sauer: Transformational Leadership at BerkeleyChapter 18: Leaders in a Paradigm of Eclectic PluralismChapter 19: Simonett and the Santa BarbariansChapter 20: The Transformational Leadership ImperativeChapter 21: EpilogueAppendix A: Leadership in Academic Departments: A ReviewAppendix B: Sources on the History of Geography