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Daniel Knudsen | Faculty

Daniel Knudsen Professor, Department of Geography

Office: SB 308
TEL: 855-4083
Email: knudsen@indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D., 1984, Indiana

Research

  • Tourism Geography
  • Cultural Geography

Current Projects

  • Tourism: The Construction, Interpretation, and Performance of Place
  • Identity, Ideology and Tourism Sites

Teaching

  • L800: Introduction to Landscape Studies
  • G380: Cultural Geography
  • G235: Geographical Methods

Representative Publications

  • D.C. Knudsen and C.E. Greer. Tourism and nostalgia for the pastoral on the island of Fyn, Denmark. Journal of Heritage Tourism. Forthcoming.
  • D.C. Knudsen, J.M. Rickly-Boyd and M.M. Metro-Roland. Landscape Perspectives on Tourism Geographies. In New Perspectives on Tourism Geographies, Routledge. Forthcoming.
  • 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

  • Patrick Alles, Ph.D., in progress
  • Amy Gray, Ph.D., in progress
  • Yan He, Ph.D., in progress
  • Gloria Maleski, M.A., in progress
  • Cameron Meyer, M.A., in progress
  • Jillian Rickly-Boyd, Ph.D., in progress
  • Elizabeth Vidon, Ph.D., in progress
  • Lisa Braverman, Touring Persuasion: Birthright Israel and Ideological Implications of the Enthymeme, M.A., 2010
  • Yan He, Splendid China Park: A Case Study of Cultural Contestation, M.A., 2010
  • Brian Johnson, The Mis/alignments of Land Use Controls with Perceived Local Preferences in Porter County, Indiana, Ph.D., 2010
  • F. Claire Lucas, Conceptualizing Citygarden: Public Space and Private Power in Saint Louis, Missouri, M.A., 2010
  • Christine Mathenge, Effects of Migration Influx, Occupance and Land Acquisition on Changing Land Tenure Patterns in Southwest Uganda, Ph.D., 2008
  • Michelle Metro-Roland, Reading Signs, Interpreting Meaning & Placing Culture in the Budapest Landscape, Ph.D., 2008
  • Lei Xu, F-2: The Experiences of Chinese Trailing Spouses in the U.S., M.A., 2008
  • 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