Adjunct Faculty: John Short

John Rennie Short is Professor of Public Policy at UMBC. Before coming to UMBC in 2002 he was a Professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He received his Masters from the University of Aberdeen, UK in 1973 and his PhD from the University of Bristol, UK in 1976 for work exploring the dynamics of inner city housing markets. From 1978 to 1990 he was a lecturer in the University of Reading, UK. He has held visiting appointments as a Senior Research Fellow at the Australian National University, as the Erasmus Professor at Groningen University and as the Leverhulme Professor at Loughborough University. Among his research fellowships are the Vietor Fellowship to Yale Universairety, the Dibner Fellowship to the Smithsonian, the Kono Fellowship to the Huntington Library and the Andrew Mellon Fellowship to the American Philosophical Library. He has received research awards from the Environmental Protection Agency, National Geographic Society and the Social Science Research Council. His main research interests are in urban issues, environmental concerns and cartographic representation.

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He is the author of 25 books, 17 invited chapters to edited books and over 50 papers in such journals as Area, City, Environment and Planning, Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Journal of American Planning Association and Urban Studies. Recent books include Global Metropolitan (2004), Making Space (2004), Globalization and The Margins (2003), Global Dimensions (2001), Representing The Republic (2001) and Globalization and The City (1999). His The World Through Maps was recognized by Discover Magazine as one of the outstanding science books of 2003.
He is founding co-editors of the journal Society and Space, founding editor of the book series Space, Place and Society published by Syracuse University Press and founding co-editor of the Critical Introduction to Urbanism book series published by Routledge.