Cheryl  Morse,  Ph.D


Assistant Professor                             
Geography Department                     
203 Old Mill                                    
University of Vermont                        
Burlington, VT 05405
Phone: 802-656-2106
Email: cheryl.morse@uvm.du		Director
Center for Research on Vermont
Nolin House, 589 Main Street
University of Vermont
Burlington, VT 05401
Phone: 802-656-4389
CRV Website


Spring 2013 Courses

Rural Geography

Geography of Vermont/ Introduction to Vermont

Research
I am interested in the connections among people, place, and experience.  My areas of study include nature-culture theory, working landscapes, rural geography, therapeutic landscapes, food systems, geography education and the geographies of youth.  
Presently I am working on a suite of working landscapes research projects under the title of The Vermont Farmlands Project. This work connects with the array of food systems research here at the University of Vermont, and elsewhere. 


Teaching
I have been teaching at the University of Vermont since 2002, in both Geography and Vermont Studies.
  • World Regional Geography  GEOG 50
  • Nature and People in Rural Environments GEOG 245
  • Rural Geography GEOG 174
  • Place, Landscape and Environment in Vermont
  • Geography of Vermont  VS 52/ GEOG 61
  • Vermont Field Studies: Vermont's Working Landscapes GEOG 192 
  • Cutting Edges: Seminar in Contemporary Geographic Research
  • Global Childhoods and Construction of Place:  Views from Vermont
  • Geographies of American Environmentalism
  • Vermont Geographies
  • Advanced Topics in Human-Environment Interactions: Nature-Culture
Service
Director, Center for Research on Vermont
Director, Vermont Studies Program

Member, UVM Food Systems Masters Steering Committee
Member, Geography Honors Committee

Former Co-Coordinator, Vermont Geographic Alliance
Former Director, VGA Summer Institutes for K-12 Educators

Coach and Program Administrator, Boys and Girls' Youth Lacrosse Programs in Westford, Milton, and Jericho, VT

Former Selectboard Chair, Town of Westford, VT

Memberships
American Association of Geographers
Rural Sociological Society
Center for Research on Vermont
US Lacrosse, Level 1 Coaching Certification

Academic Degrees
1989
 B.A., Honors
Magna Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
 University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont USA
 Environmental Studies
 Honors Thesis:
"Adventuring in Vermont:
A Statewide Guide to Environmental Education Programs"
2000
 MA
 University of Vermont
Burlington, Vermont USA
 Geography
 Thesis:
"Youth and the Rural Landscape:
The Geographies of Northern Vermont Teens"
2006
 Ph.D.
 University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC  Canada
 Geography
 Thesis:
"Nature Discipline:
 The Practice of Wilderness Therapy at Camp E-Wen-Akee"

Publications
Morse, C. 2010. Strategies for Promoting Working Landscapes in North America and Europe. A report for Vermont's Working Landscapes Committee. Montpelier: Vermont Council on Rural Development.

Dunkley, C.M. 2009. A Therapeutic Taskscape: Theorizing Place-Making, Discipline and Care at a Camp for Troubled Youth. Health & Place 15(1): 88-96.  2008 impact factor: 2.818.

Dunkley, C.M. 2009. Book Review of B. Harrison's The View from Vermont and P. Searls' Two Vermonts. Journal of Historical Geography 35: 203-205.

Dunkley, C.M.  "Wilderness" Encyclopedia of Geography entry.
Dunkley, C.M. and Ruth Panelli.  2007. 'Preppy-jocks,' 'Rednecks', 'Stoners,' and 'Scum': Power and Youth Social Groups in Rural Vermont in Young Rural Lives: Global Perspectives on Rural Childhood and Youth, R. Panelli, S. Punch, E. Robson, Eds. London: Routledge.

Dunkley, C.M. 2006 Book Review of E. Ferraro-Ramirez's Troubled Fields: Men, Emotions and the Crisis in American Farming, Journal of Rural Studies 22(3): 381-382.

Dunkley, C.M. 2004. Risky Geographies: Teens, Gender and Rural Landscape. Gender, Place, Culture (11)4: 559-579.

Vanderbeck, R. and C.M. Dunkley. 2004. Editorial introduction for  Inclusion, Exclusion and Belonging special edition of Children's Geographies 2(2): 177-183.

Vanderbeck, R. and C.M. Dunkley. 2003. Young People's Narratives of Rural-Urban Difference, Children's Geographies 1(2): 241-259.
Presentations

"Developing Geographical Minds: Lessons from Teaching World Regional and Vermont Geography," presentation to the Global Studies Institute for K-12 Educators, Castleton State College, Vermont, July 2011.

"Gender, the Great Outdoors, and Youth Outmigration from Rural Communities", Paper presentation to the Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society, July 2009, Madison, WI.

"Young People and Vermont’s Great Outdoors;  The Geography of Vermont for Educators", “The Importance of Being Geographic” Summer Professional Development Institute for Vermont K-12 Educators, Saint Michael’s College, July 2009.

"Mapping Vermont: For K-12 Teachers", Geography Education presentation to the "Importance of Being Geographic" Summer Institute for Vermont Educators, July 2008.

 "Wilderness and the Production of Civilized Identities", Paper presentation to the Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, Boston, April 2008.

 "Girls and Vermont's Great Outdoors: Growing Up in a Rural Landscape". Hal Meeks Memorial Public Lecture, Brownell Library, Essex Junction, Vermont, March 2007.

 "Diverse Africa!: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching about Africa in Physical Education", with Thomas S. Dunkley, VAHPERD Conference, Killington, Vermont, November 2006.

"A Therapeutic Taskscape: The Relationship Between Wilderness Therapy, Troubled Youth and a Vermont Landscape", Center for Research on Vermont's Research in Progress Series, University of Vermont, March 2006.

"Natural Discipline: Landscape, Emotion, and Wilderness Therapy", Paper presentation to Annual Meeting of American Association of Geographers, Chicago, March 2006.

"Nature, Class, and Troubling Youth: The Practice of Wilderness Therapy", Paper presentation to NESTVAL Annual Meeting, Keene State College, NH, October 2005.

"Nature's Tonic: The Paradox of Civilizing Youth in American Wilderness", Paper presented in the "New Directions in Children's Geographies" sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, March 2003.

"Goin' Up to Canada: American Youth, Rural Landscapes, and the Risk of the Border", Paper presentation to Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Toronto, May 2002.