Anne Kelly Knowles (born 1957) is an American

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

and a specialist in

Historical GIS A historical geographic information system (also written as historical GIS or HGIS) is a geographic information system that may display, store and analyze data of past geographies and track changes in time. It is a tool for historical geography. ...

. After teaching for over ten years at Middlebury College in

Vermont Vermont () is a U.S. state, state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, New York (state), New York to the west, and the Provinces and territories of Ca ...

as a

professor Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an Academy, academic rank at university, universities and other tertiary education, post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin ...

of geography, she is now a professor of

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

University of Maine The University of Maine (UMaine) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Orono, Maine, United States. It was established in 1865 as the land-grant college of Maine and is the Flagship universitie ...

. She received her MA and PhD from

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

. Her first book, ''Calvinists Incorporated Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier'' examined the influence of immigrants’ traditions and social values on their economic behavior during the industrialization of their new region as workers and investors in Welsh-owned charcoal iron companies. In 2002 she edited the first book ever published with case studies of the use of

in various disciplines. She was the guest editor of a special issue of the journal ''

Social Science History ''Social Science History'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal. It is the official journal of the Social Science History Association. Its articles bring an analytic, theoretical, and often quantitative approach to historical evidence. I ...

'' about this field. Her research has included

spatial analysis Spatial analysis is any of the formal Scientific technique, techniques which study entities using their topological, geometric, or geographic properties, primarily used in Urban design, Urban Design. Spatial analysis includes a variety of techni ...

of the role of skilled

ironworkers An ironworker is a tradesman who works in the iron-working industry. Ironworkers assemble the structural framework in accordance with engineering drawings, engineered drawings and install the metal support pieces for new buildings. They also ...

in the transfer of technology in the U.S. iron industry 1800-1868, and the mapping of the

Holocaust The Holocaust (), known in Hebrew language, Hebrew as the (), was the genocide of History of the Jews in Europe, European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and Collaboration with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy ...

Awards

Guggenheim Fellowship (2015).
John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Award, Association of American Geographers (2014). American Ingenuity Award for Historical Scholarship, '' Smithsonian'' magazine (2012). National Science Foundation Collaborative Research Grant, Holocaust Historical GIS, with Alberto Giordano as fellow PI (2008 – 2011). National Endowment for the Humanities Research Fellowship (2005). American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship (1999).

References

Works

* Knowles, Anne Kelly; Tim Cole; Alberto Giordano (eds.). 2014. ''Geographies of the Holocaust'' Bloomington: Indiana University Press
At IU Press
. . * Knowles, Anne Kelly. 2013. ''Mastering Iron: The Struggle to Modernize an American Industry''. University of Chicago Press. * Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS Are Changing Historical Scholarship (2008), edited Knowles, digital supplement edited by Amy Hillier. Redlands, Cal.: ESRI Press. * Knowles, Anne Kelly ed. 2005. ''Emerging Trends in Historical GIS. In Historical Geography'', Baton Rouge, LA: Geoscience Publications. * Knowles, Anne Kelly, 2002. ''Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History''. ESRI press * Knowles, Anne Kelly ed. 2000. ''Historical GIS: The Spatial Turn in Social Science History'', Social Science History 24 (3). * Knowles, Anne Kelly. 1997. ''Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio’s Industrial Frontier''.

External links

Faculty page at University of Maine
* References to Anne K. Knowle
in Google Scholar
* References to Anne K. Knowles work in popular media

{{DEFAULTSORT:Knowles, Anne Kelly American geographers 1957 births Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Middlebury College faculty University of Maine faculty American historical geographers American women geographers