WILLIAM E. DOOLITTLE

Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas, Austin, TX 78712

Tel.: (512) 232-1581, Fax: (512) 471-5049, Email: dolitl@mail.utexas.edu

Education:
B.A. Texas Christian University (1974)
M.A. University of Missouri (1976)
Ph.D. University of Oklahoma (1979), Disciplines: Geography, Anthropology

Specialties: landscapes, agricultural technology, American Southwest, Mexico

Professional Services: Chair, Southwest Division, Association of American Geographers (1995-1997); Board of Directors, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (1992-1994); Chair, Cultural Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (1980-1984); Member, Editorial Board, Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1993-1996), Kiva (1993-1995), Journal of Cultural Geography (1996-2000); Organizer, annual meetings of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (1989, 1994), Gran Quivira Conference (1991).

Awards: Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award in recognition of outstanding research and publications, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (1994); Robert McC. Netting Award in recognition of distinguished research and professional activities, Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (2003).

Funded Research: 16 funded research projects with support from National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Geographic Society, Association of American Geographers, Mellon Foundation, Tinker Foundation, and Houston Endowment.

Books:

Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico: Archaeological Confirmation
of Early Spanish Reports. Tucson: Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona 48

           (1988).
 
Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico: The Sequence of Technological Change. Austin:
The University of Texas Press (1990).

 
Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2000).

           The Safford Valley Grids: Prehistoric Cultivation in the Southern Arizona Desert.
           Tucson: Anthropological Papers of the University of Arizona 70 (2004).


Other Publications: 48 referreed articles and book chapters, 20 invited book reviews, 46 abstracts, and 44 special publications. Recent examples:

 
 Canal Irrigation at Casas Grandes: A Technological and Developmental Assessment of its
Origins.In Culture and Contact: Charles C. DiPeso's Gran Chichimeca, Anne I. Woosley
John C. Ravesloot, eds. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1993):133-151.

 
A Method for Distinguishing Between Prehistoric and Recent Water and Soil Control Features.
Co-authored with James A. Neely and Michael D. Pool. Kiva 59:7-25 (1993).

 
The San Saba-Menard Irrigation System: Lessons Learned by Unraveling Its Origin. In Soil,
Water, Biology, and Belief in Prehistoric and Traditional Southwestern Agriculture. H. 
 
Wolcott Toll, ed. Albuquerque: New Mexico Archaeological Council, Special Publication 2,
            pp. 263-277 (1995).


           Indigenous Development of Mesoamerican Irrigation. Geographical Review 85:301-323
            (1995).

 
Innovation and Diffusion of Sand- and Gravel-Mulch Agriculture in the American Southwest:
A Product of the Eruption of Sunset Crater. Quaternaire 9:61-69 (1998).

Noria Technology in Mexico: Against the Current and Against the Odds. International
            Molinology  59:8-13 (1999).


            Learning to See the Impacts of Individuals. Geographical Review 91:423-429 (2001).

            Channel Changes and Living Fencerows in Eastern Sonora, Mexico: Myopia in Traditional
            Resource Management? Geografiska Annaler 85A:247-261 (2003).

            Permanent vs. Shifting Cultivation in the Eastern Woodlands of North America Prior to
            European Contact. Agriculture and Human Values 21:181-189 (2004).


Current Activities: Investigating (a) prehistoric agricultural features and landscapes in southeast Arizona, (b) water control technology transfers from Spain to Mexico in colonial times, and (c) the merging of "Spanish" and "native" technologies in the American Southwest.

Ph.D. Advisor: B. L. Turner II, now at Clark University, Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

Ph.D. Advisees: Dean P. Lambert, 1992, Associate Professor, San Antonio College; Andrew Sluyter, 1995, Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University; Emily H. Young, 1995, San Diego Foundation; Norman D. Johns, 1996, National Wildlife Federation-Austin; Michael D. Myers, 1998, Assistant Professor, Oklahoma State University; Eric P. Perramond, 1999, Assistant Professor, Stetson University; Philip L. Crossley, 1999, Assistant Professor, College of Western Colorado; Claudia Oakes, 2000; SWCA-Albuquerque; Bella Bychkova Jordan, 2002, Lecturer, University of Texas; Michael D. Pool, Lecturer, Austin Community College; Jerry O. Bass, 2003, Assistant Professor, University of Southern Mississippi; Maria G. Fadiman, 2003, Lecturer, Florida Atlantic University; and two others in progress. 

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