FACULTY
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Dr. Roger Winsor, Professor
365 Rankin Science West
828-262-7053
winsorra@appstate.edu
Ph.D., Geography, University of Illinois, 1975
M.A., Geography, Arizona State University, 1966
B.S., Geography, Shippensburg State College, 1963 |
Research and Interests:
Dr. Winsor’s teaching load the coming year will include World Regional Geography (1020), Behavioral Geography (3200), and Urban Geography (4200). Recently, Dr. Winsor served as the committee chair for the following theses: “From These Hills: The Spatial Diffusion of Bluegrass Music Festivals 1965-1995” and “Interstate 77, the Hillbilly Highway?: A Case Study of Migration from McDowell County, West Virginia to the North Carolina Piedmont.”
Dr. Winsor, along with Eric Neel, Breece Robertson, and Leslie Meadows wrote “Higher education in the Carolinas” a book chapter in The Geography of the Carolinas (ed. D. Gordon Bennett) to be published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
Dr. Winsor and Shannon Mann wrote an entry “Vacation Homes and Gentrification for the Encyclopedia of Appalachia”. The entry analyzed the number of homes in Ashe and Avery Counties to determine the percentage of second-homes based on county tax records.
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