Reginald George Golledge (born 6 December 1937 in
Dungog
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New South Wales
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; died 29 May 2009 in
Goleta
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,
California
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) was an
Australian-born
American Professor of Geography at the
University of California, Santa Barbara
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. He was named Faculty Research Lecturer for 2009. During his career he wrote or edited 16 books and 100 chapters for other books, and wrote more than 150 academic papers.
Golledge was a pioneer in the field of
behavioral geography
Behavioral geography is an approach to human geography that examines human behavior by separating it into different parts. In addition, behavioral geography is an ideology/approach in human geography that makes use of the methods and assumptions o ...
. When behavioral geography divided into a humanistic and an analytical approach by the early 1970s, Golledge became the chief proponent of the latter one.
[Kitchin, R. (2004): Reginald Golledge. In: Hubbard, P., R. Kitchin and G. Valentine (Eds.): Key thinkers on space and place. London: Sage Pubn Inc. pp. 136–142.] In 1984 he became blind, and moved his focus to the
geography of disability. Golledge was one of the developers (the others being psychologists Jack Loomis and
Roberta Klatzky) of the
UCSB Personal Guidance System.
Academic career
* B.A. (Honors),
University of New England (Australia)
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, 1959
* M.A., University of New England (Australia), 1961
* Ph.D.,
University of Iowa
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, 1966
* Assistant Professor,
University of British Columbia
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, 1965–1966
* Assistant Professor,
Ohio State University
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, 1966–1967
* Associate Professor, Ohio State University, 1967–1971
* Professor of Geography, Ohio State University, 1971–1977
* Professor of Geography,
University of California, Santa Barbara
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, 1977–2009
Honors (selection)
*
Guggenheim Fellow
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, 1987
* Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science
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, 1990
* President of the
Association of American Geographers
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, 1999–2000
* Honorary LL.D.,
Simon Fraser University
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, 2001
* Honorary Ph.D.,
University of Gothenburg
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, 2001
* Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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, 2005
* UCSB Faculty Research Lecturer, 2009
Major works
As co-author
* Amedeo, D., & Golledge, R. G. (1975). ''An Introduction to Scientific Reasoning in Geography''. New York: John Wiley and Sons. 2nd printing by Krieger, Melbourne, FL, 1986.
* King, L. J., & Golledge, R. G. (1978). ''Cities, Space and Behavior''. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
* Golledge, R. G., & Stimson, R. (1987). ''Analytical Behavioural Geography''. London: Croom Helm.
* Golledge, R. G., & Stimson, R. J. (1997). ''Spatial Behavior: A Geographic Perspective''. New York: Guilford Press. /
* Amedeo, D., Golledge, R. G., & Stimson, R. J. (2009). ''Person-Environment-Behavior Research: Investigating Activities and Experiences in Spaces and Environments''. New York: Guilford Press. /
As editor or co-editor
* Cox, K. R., & Golledge, R. G. (Eds.). (1969). ''Behavioral Problems in Geography: A Symposium''. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.
* Golledge, R. G., & Rushton, G. (Eds.). (1976). ''Spatial Choice and Spatial Behavior: Geographic Essays on the Analysis of Preferences and Perceptions''. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press.
* Moore, G. T., & Golledge, R. G. (Eds.). (1976). ''Environmental Knowing: Theories, Research and Methods''. Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross. Paperback edition, 1978.
* Cox, K. R., & Golledge, R. G. (Eds.). (1981). ''Behavioral Problems in Geography Revisited''. New York: Methuen. Translated into Japanese, 1986. /
* Golledge, R. G., & Rayner, J. N. (Eds.). (1982). ''Proximity and Preference: Problems in the Multidimensional Analysis of Large Data Sets''. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
* Golledge, R. G., & Timmermans, H. (Eds.). (1988). ''Behavioural Modelling in Geography and Planning''. London: Croom Helm.
* Golledge, R. G., Couclelis, H., & Gould, P. (Eds.). (1988). ''A Ground for Common Search''. Goleta, CA: The Santa Barbara Geographical Press.
* Gärling, T., & Golledge, R. G. (Eds.). (1993). ''Behavior and Environment: Psychological and Geographical Approaches''. Amsterdam: North Holland, Elsevier Science Publishers.
* Egenhofer, M. J., & Golledge, R. G. (Eds.). (1998). ''Spatial and Temporal Reasoning in Geographic Information Systems''. New York: Oxford University Press.
* Golledge, R. G. (Ed.). (1999). ''Wayfinding Behavior: Cognitive Mapping and Other Spatial Processes''. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
References
External links
Obituary published in
Nature
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Curriculum Vitae
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1937 births
2009 deaths
Australian geographers
American geographers
University of New England (Australia) alumni
Ohio State University faculty
University of California, Santa Barbara faculty
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Blind academics
Presidents of the American Association of Geographers
Environmental social scientists
Regional scientists
20th-century geographers