William E. Doolittle

William E. Doolittle is an American geographer who is prominent among the fourth generation of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography. He is currently the Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor in Geography at the Department of Geography and the Environment at University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in landscapes and agricultural technology in the American Southwest and Mexico.

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Background

Professor Doolittle received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Oklahoma. He taught at Mississippi State University. He joining the UT faculty in 1981. he has served as an undergraduate advisor, graduate advisor (receiving UT's Outstanding Graduate Advisor Award in 2004), and department chair.

He was a visiting professor at Brown University in 1997, and a Fulbright Senior Specialist at Stockholm University in 2007. He is a Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, and has received distinguish scholarship awards from the Association of American Geographers and the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers.[1]

He has graduated a number of doctoral students: Dean P. Lambert (1992), Andrew Sluyter (1995), Emily H. Young (1995), Norman D. Johns (1996), Michael D. Myers (1998), Eric P. Perramond (1999), Phil L. Crossley (1999); Claudia L. Oakes (2000), Michael D. Pool (2002), Bella Bychokova Jordan (2002), Jerry O. (Joby) Bass (2003), Maria G. Fadiman (2003), W. Stuart Kirkham (2005), and Matthew Fry (2008).

Research Interests

Doolittle's research interests include landscapes, histories, and agricultural technologies in arid lands, particularly the American Southwest and Mexico. His research focuses on technologies associated with landscape transformations for food production in dry lands.

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