Joe Weber
Professor
- jweber2@ua.edu
- (205) 348-0949
- 228 Farrah Hall
- Curriculum Vitae
Office Hours
Tuesday, Thursday 12:00pm-2:00pm
Education
- PhD, Ohio State University, 2001
- MA, University of Arizona, 1994
- BA, University of Arizona, 1992
Research Areas
- Transport geography
- National parks
- Urban geography
- American West
- Historical GIS
Courses Taught:
Geography of Public Lands,
Geography of National Parks,
Urban Geography,
Transport Geography,
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems,
GIS for Transportation,
Advanced Geographic Information Systems.
Weber, J., and Sultana, S. 2024, editors. The Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weber, J., 2024. The Unfinished Wheeler Atlas of the American West: Reassessing the Value of a Nineteenth-Century Mapping Project. Imago Mundi, 76(1), pp.17-36.
Weber, J. 2024. Canyon de Chelly National Monument and the Vanishing Navajo Meridian. In The Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas, edited by Joe Weber and Selima Sultana, pgs 209-232. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Dilsaver, L. M., and Weber, J. 2024. Failed National Park Proposals in “Sweet Home Alabama.” In The Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas, edited by Joe Weber and Selima Sultana, pgs 111-152. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Weber, J., and Sultana, S. 2024. Geographic Research on National Parks: An Overview and Prospectus. In The Changing Geography of National Parks and Protected Areas, edited by Joe Weber and Selima Sultana, pgs 11-36. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Meyer, M., Weber, J., Sultana, S. and Shao, W., 2024. Geographic Analysis of the Compactness of National Park Unit Boundaries. Transactions in GIS.
Weber, J., and Sultana, S. 2024. The Parks Belong to the People: The Geography of the National Park System. Athens: University of Georgia Press.
Lichtenstein, B. and Weber, J., 2023. The Geography of Dispossession: Race, Bankruptcy, and Foreclosure in a Deep South US County. Housing, Theory and Society, pp.1-24.
Weber, J. 2023. The Origins of the Section Line Arterial Street Grid in Tucson, Arizona. Journal of the Southwest 65(2): 149-176.
Weber, J. 2023. The Public Land Survey Landscape in the Intermountain American West. Professional Geographer 75(3) 452-462.
Sultana, S., Merced, J., Weber, J., Allen, R. and Carlton, G., 2023. Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its Missing Black Visitors: A Preliminary Analysis on the Hidden Architecture of Landscape. Southeastern Geographer, 63(1), pp.15-35.
Weber, J. 2022. Mapping Historical Las Vegas: A Cartographic Journey. Reno: University of Nevada Press.
Weber, J. 2022. America’s Lost National Monuments. Journal of Historical Geography 78: 55-68.
Weber, J. 2022. Diamonds, Cloverleafs, and SPUIs: The Geography of Freeway Interchanges in the United States. Professional Geographer 74(1): 102-114.
Weber, J and M. LaFevor. 2021. Exploring Remnant Landscapes of Nevada’s Arrowhead Trail. Geographical Review. 111 (3): 437-457.
Weber, J. 2019. The three American wests. Professional Geographer 17(2): 239-252. Weber, J. 2018. The transition from folk to engineered roads in the Mojave Desert. Journal of Historical Geography 61: 14-26.
Weber, J. 2018. Route Change on the American Freeway System. Journal of Transport Geography 67: 12-23.
Weber, J. 2017. Continuity and Change in American Urban Freeway Networks. Journal of Transport Geography 58: 31-39.
Weber, J. 2016. America’s lost national park units: a closer look. The George Wright Forum 33(1) 59-69.
Weber, J. 2016. Yesterday’s Freeway Network of Tomorrow. Geographical Review 106: 54-71. Selima, S. and J.
Weber. 2014. The nature of urban growth and the commuting transition: Endless sprawl or a growth wave? Urban Studies 51: 544-576.
Weber, J. and S. Sultana. 2013. The Civil Rights Movement and the future of the National Park System. Tourism Geographies 15: 444-469.
Weber, J. and S. Sultana. 2013. Why do so few minority people visit national parks? Visitation and accessibility of “America’s Best Idea.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103: 437-464.