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College of A&GS
Department of Geography

The University of Oklahoma
Sarkeys Energy Center, Room 684
100 East Boyd Street
Norman, Oklahoma 73019-1008, U.S.A.
(405) 325-5325 office
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Fred Shelley

Appointments:
Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1981‑1986
Assistant to Associate Professor of Geography, University of Southern California, 1986‑1990
Visiting Associate Professor of Geography, University of Iowa, Summer 1987 and 1989‑1990
Associate Professor of Geography, Florida State University, 1990‑1994
Visiting Associate Professor of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 1994‑1995
Associate Professor of Geography and Planning, Southwest Texas State University, 1995‑1998
Professor of Geography and Planning, Southwest Texas State University, 1998‑1999
Professor of Geography, Texas State University—San Marcos (formerly Southwest Texas State
University), 1999‑2004
Professor and Chair, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, 2004-present

Research Interests:
Political Geography, Resource and Environmental Policy, Geography and the World Economy, Electoral Geography, Sports and Popular Culture, North America

Courses:
GEOG 1103, Human Geography
GEOG 3001, Dialogue in Geography
GEOG 3513, Political Geography
GEOG 3633, Geography of the United States
GEOG 3890/5990, Sustainability on the Southern Plains
GEOG 6953, Research Methods

Education:
Ph.D., University of Iowa, 1981
M.A., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977
A.B., Clark University, 1974

Publications:

NOTE - The co-authors indicated in bold text are current or former OU students).

 

Fred M. Shelley and Curtis C. Roseman (1978), "Migration Patterns Leading to Population Change in the Nonmetropolitan South," Growth and Change, 9, pp. 14‑23.

Curtis C. Roseman, Sallie M. Ives and Fred M. Shelley (1980), "An AID Analysis of Factors Associated with Contemporary Net Migration in the United States," Geographical Perspectives, 45, pp. 15‑24.

Fred M. Shelley (1982), "A Constitutional Choice Approach to Electoral District Boundary Delineation," Political Geography Quarterly, 1, pp. 341‑350.

Fred M. Shelley and Michael F. Goodchild (1983), "Majority Voting and the Location of Salutary Facilities," Geographical Analysis, 15, pp. 205‑211.

Fred M. Shelley (1983), "The Public Choice Perspective in Contemporary Political Geography," in Public Provision and Urban Development, edited by Andrew Kirby, Paul Knox and Steven Pinch. London: Croom Helm, pp. 75‑93.

Rebecca S. Roberts, L. Mathis Butler and Fred M. Shelley (1984), "Information for Ground‑Water Management Based on Land and Water Use Data," in Management, Conservation and Regulation of Ground‑Water Resources, edited by David M. Nielson. Worthington, Ohio: National Water Well Association, pp. 405‑432.

Fred M. Shelley, "Groundwater Supply Depletion in West Texas: The Farmer's Perspective," Texas Business Review, 57, pp. 279‑283.

Fred M. Shelley, J. Clark Archer and Ellen R. White (1984), "Rednecks and Quiche Eaters: A Cartographic Analysis of Recent Third Party Electoral Campaigns," Journal of Geography, 83, pp. 7‑12.

Fred M. Shelley (1984), "Spatial Effects on Voting Power in Representative Democracies," Environment and Planning A, 16, pp. 401‑405.

Fred M. Shelley and Kevin F. Cartin (1984), "The Geography of Baseball Fan Support in the United States," North American Culture, 1, pp. 77‑95

Fred M. Shelley and Chand Wije (1984), "Opposition to the Transfer of Water Supplies: An Oklahoma Case Study," Water Resources Bulletin, 20, pp. 721‑727.

Fred M. Shelley and J. Clark Archer (1984), "The Electoral Mosaic of a Border Region," Geographical Perspectives, 54, pp. 7‑20.

Fred M. Shelley (1984), "Notes on Ostrogorski's Paradox," Theory and Decision, 17, pp. 267‑273

Fred M. Shelley (1985), "Voting Power in a System of Compound Majority Rule," Mathematical Social Sciences, 9, pp. 287‑291.

J. Clark Archer, G. Tomas Murauskas, Fred M. Shelley, Peter J. Taylor and Ellen R. White (1985), "Counties, States, Sections and Parties in the 1984 Presidential Election," The Professional Geographer, 37, pp. 279‑287.

David R. Reynolds and Fred M. Shelley (1985), "Procedural Justice and Local Democracy," Political Geography Quarterly, 4, pp. 267‑288.

David R. Reynolds and Fred M. Shelley (1985), "Application of Procedural Justice to Electoral Systems," European Journal of Political Research, 13, pp. 401‑408.

Fred M. Shelley (1985), "The Potential for Locally‑Based Management of Groundwater Supplies in the Great Plains," in Water for the 21st Century: Will It Be There?, edited by Michael A. Collins. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, pp. 736‑744.

J. Clark Archer and Fred M. Shelley (1985), "Theory and Methodology in Political Geography," in Progress in Political Geography, edited by Michael Pacione. London: Croom Helm, pp. 11‑28.

Fred M. Shelley, J. Clark Archer and G. Tomas Murauskas (1986), "Recent Presidential Elections in the American Southwest," Arkansas Journal of Geography, 2, pp. 1‑11.

G. Tomas Murauskas and Fred M. Shelley (1986), "Local Political Responses to Nuclear Waste Disposal," Cities, 3, pp. 157‑162.

J. Clark Archer and Fred M. Shelley (1986), American Electoral Mosaics. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers.

Fred M. Shelley (1986), "Voting Power in Municipal Annexation Elections," Quality and Quantity, 120, pp. 257‑260.

Fred M. Shelley, F. Andrew Schoolmaster and Rebecca S. Roberts (1986), "Patterns of Support for the Texas Water Amendments of 1976," Water Resources Bulletin, 22, pp. 485‑493.

Susan C. Cutter, H. Briavel Holcomb, Dianne Shatin, Fred M. Shelley and G. Tomas Murauskas (1987), "From Grass Roots to Partisan Politics: Nuclear Freeze Referenda in New Jersey and South Dakota," Political Geography Quarterly, 6, pp. 287‑300.

Barry D. Solomon, Fred M. Shelley, Martin J. Pasqualetti and G. Tomas Murauskas (1987), "Radioactive Waste Disposal Policies in Seven Industrial Democracies, Geoforum, 18, pp. 415‑431.

Fred M. Shelley (1988), "Structure, Stability and Section in American Politics," Political Geography Quarterly, 7, pp. 142‑151.

Curtis C. Roseman and Fred M. Shelley (1988), "The Geography of Collegiate Sports on Radio," Sport Place, 2, pp. 42‑50.

Fred M. Shelley, Barry D. Solomon, Martin J. Pasqualetti and G. Tomas Murauskas (1988), "Locational Conflict and Nuclear Waste Disposal Siting: An International Appraisal," Government and Policy, 6, pp. 323‑333.

Fred M. Shelley, Jack P. Lipton, G. Tomas Murauskas, and Dennis M. Beaty (1988), "Geographical Dimensions of Baseball Fan Support in the United States," North American Culture, 4, pp. 30‑36.

J. Clark Archer, Fred M. Shelley, Peter J. Taylor and Ellen R. White (1988), "The Changing Geography of American Presidential Elections," Scientific American, July, pp. 44‑51.

Barry D. Solomon and Fred M. Shelley (1988), "An International Inventory of Nuclear Waste Siting Programs," Journal of Geography, 87, pp. 59‑65.

Fred M. Shelley and J. Clark Archer (1989), "Sectionalism and Presidential Politics in America: A Twentieth‑Century Perspective from Illinois, Indiana and Ohio," Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 20, pp. 227‑255.

R. J. Johnston, Fred M. Shelley, and Peter J. Taylor (eds.) (1990), Developments in Electoral Geography. New York: Routledge.

Rebecca S. Roberts, Frances M. Ufkes and Fred M. Shelley (1990), "Populism and Agrarian Ideology: The 1982 Nebraska Corporate Farming Referendum," in Developments in Electoral
Geography, edited by R. J. Johnston, F. M. Shelley and P. J. Taylor. London: Routledge, pp. 153‑175.

David R. Reynolds and Fred M. Shelley (1990), "Local Autonomy in American Education Policy: Myth and Reality," in Spatial Dimensions of U.S. Social Policy, edited by Janet E. Kodras and John Paul Jones III. London: Edward Arnold, pp. 107‑138.

Fred M. Shelley and J. Clark Archer (1990), "The United States," in Atlas of World Government, edited by Peter J. Taylor. London: Equinox, pp. 52‑77.

Fred M. Shelley (1993), "Political Geography in the 1990s," Urban Geography.

Fred M. Shelley (1994), "Political Geography, the New World Order and the City," Urban Geography.
 
Fred M. Shelley (1994) "Local Control and Financing of Education: A Perspective from the American State Judiciary," Political Geography, 13, pp. 361‑376.

Fred M. Shelley and J. Clark Archer (1994), "Some Geographical Aspects of the 1992 American Presidential Election," Political Geography, 13, pp. 137‑159.

Fred M. Shelley and Harold L. McConnell (1994), "Who's Number One? A Look at Geographic Bias in Associated Press College Football Polls," Sport Place, 8.

Arlene M. Shelley and Fred M. Shelley (1994), "Changing Migration Patterns of Major League Baseball Players," Sport Place, 8.

Fred M. Shelley (1994), "Geography, Territory and Ethnicity: Current Perspectives from Political Geography," Urban Geography.

Fred M. Shelley and Audrey E. Clarke (1994), Human and Cultural Geography. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown.

Fred M. Shelley (1994), Study Guide to Accompany Human and Cultural Geography. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown.

Fred M. Shelley (1994), Instructor's Manual to Accompany Human and Cultural Geography. Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown.

Fred M. Shelley, and J. C. Archer (1995), "The Volatile South: A Historical Geography of Presidential Elections in the South," Southeastern Geographer, 35, pp. 22‑36.

Colin Flint and Fred M. Shelley (1996), "Context, Agency and Structure: The Contributions of Geography to World‑Systems Analysis," Sociological Inquiry.

William D. Solecki and Fred M. Shelley (1996), "The Environment as a Developing Political Issue in the 1950s," Government and Policy, 14, pp. 215‑230.

Fred M. Shelley, J. Clark Archer, Fiona M. Davidson and Stanley D. Brunn (1996), Discovering America's Political Geography. New York: Guilford Press.

Gary L. Thompson, Fred M. Shelley and Chand Wije (eds.) (1997), Geography, Environment and American Law. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado.

Fred M. Shelley and J. Clark Archer (1997), "Electoral Geography," in Directions in Political Geography, edited by R. D. Dikshit. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 205‑225.

J. Clark Archer, Fred M. Shelley and Jonathan I. Leib (1997), "The Perceived Geopolitical Importance of the Countries of the World," Journal of Geography, 96, pp. 57‑62.

Fred M. Shelley (1997), "The History of the Southwest Division of the Association of American Geographers," Southwestern Geographer, 1, pp. 23‑33.

John P. Tiefenbacher, Dena Chavez Konopka and Fred M. Shelley (1997), "Representing the Airborne Toxic Emissions Hazard in Texas: Measuring the Vulnerability of Place," Applied Geographical Studies, 1, pp. 229‑238.

Fred M. Shelley (1997), "Education Policy and the 104th Congress," in State Devolution in America: Implications for a Diverse Society, edited by Lynn A. Staeheli, Janet E. Kodras, and Colin Flint. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, pp. 221‑232.

Fred M. Shelley (1997), "The Political Geography of Texas," in Geographic Perspectives on the Texas Region, edited by Donald Lyons and Paul Hudak. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, pp. 57‑64.

Fred M. Shelley and Gerald R. Webster (1998), "Population, Settlement, Race, and Ethnicity in the South," Journal of Geography, 97, pp. 163‑175.

Fiona M. Davidson, Jonathan I. Leib, Fred M. Shelley, and Gerald R. Webster (eds.) (1998), Teaching Political Geography. Washington, D.C.: National Council for Geographic Education.

Kathleen Braden and Fred M. Shelley (1999), Engaging Geopolitics. London: Longman.

Fred M. Shelley (1999), "Geographic Education Research and the Changing Institutional Structure of American Education," Professional Geographer, 51, pp. 492‑497.

Susan W. Hardwick, Kathy Alexander, Lydia Bean, and Fred M. Shelley (2000), "The Worlds of Girls and Boys: Geographic Experience and Different Opportunities for Informal Learning," Journal of Geography, 99, pp. 143-148.

Fred M. Shelley and Colin Flint (2000), "Geography, Place, and World‑Systems Analysis," in A World‑Systems Reader, edited by Thomas D. Hall. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 69‑82.

Stanley D. Brunn, Fred M. Shelley, Gerald R. Webster, and Wael M. Ahmed (2000), "Place and Region in American Legal Culture: State Origins of Landmark Supreme Court Cases," Historical Geography, 28, pp. 134‑155.

Fred M. Shelley (2001), “The Electoral College in Historical and Geographical Perspective,” Political Geography, 20, pp. 202-207.

Fred M. Shelley and Lydia L. Bean (2001), “SWT Geography: From the Texas Hill Country to International Recognition,” Southwestern Geographer, 5, pp. 83-101.

J. Clark Archer, Stephen J. Lavin, Kenneth C. Martis, and Fred M. Shelley (2002), Atlas of American Politics, 1960‑2000. Washington, D. C.: CQ Press.

Gearóid Ó Tuathail and Fred M. Shelley (2003), "Political Geography and the New World Order," in Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, edited by Gary Gaile and Cort Willmott. New York: Oxford University Press, pp. 164-184.

Lydia L. Bean and Fred M. Shelley (2004), “Borders and Vulnerability,” in World Minds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, edited by Donald G. Janelle, Barney Warf, and Kathy Hansen. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 461-466.

Fred M. Shelley, Wendy Bigler, and Richard Aspinall (2004), “Federal Funding and Geography in the Twentieth Century,” in Geography and Technology, edited by Stanley D. Brunn, Susan L. Cutter, and J. W. Harrington, Jr. Dordrecht: Kluwer, pp. 37-62.

Lisa M. DeChano and Fred M. Shelley (2004), “Using Sports to Teach Geography: Examples from Kansas City,” Journal of Geography, 103, pp. 27-32.

Lisa M. DeChano and Fred M. Shelley (eds.) (2006), Using Sport to Teach Geography. Jacksonville, Alabama: National Council for Geographic Education.

J. Clark Archer, Stephen J. Lavin, Kenneth C. Martis, and Fred M. Shelley (2006), Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1789-2004. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press.

Alecia M. Brettschneider and Fred M. Shelley (2006), “Examining Wal-Mart's Relationships with Local Communities through Investigation of Advertising, in Wal-Mart World: The World’s Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy, edited by Stanley D. Brunn. New York: Routledge, pp. 193-202.

Fred M. Shelley, Adrienne M. Proffer, and Lisa M. DeChano (2006), “Wal-Mart and Partisan Electoral Politics in the Contemporary United States, in Wal-Mart World: The World’s Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy, edited by Stanley D. Brunn. New York: Routledge, pp. 203-212.

Susan W. Hardwick, Fred M. Shelley, and Donald Holtgrieve (2007), Geography of North America. New York: Prentice Hall.

Fred M. Shelley, Kimberly J. Zerr, and Adrienne M. Proffer (2007), “The Civil Rights Movement and Electoral Realignment in the South,” The Southeastern Geographer, pp. 1-15.

Fred M. Shelley and Adrienne M. Proffer (2008), “Advising Students in Geography,” in The EDGE Project Source Book for Early Career Professionals in Geography, edited by Michael Solem and Kenneth E. Foote. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, forthcoming.

Susan W. Hardwick and Fred M. Shelley (2008), “Mentoring in Geography,” in The EDGE Project Source Book for Early Career Professionals in Geography, edited by Michael Solem and Kenneth E. Foote. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Geographers, forthcoming.

Emily J. Duda and Fred M. Shelley (2008), “Pre-Industrial, Industrial, and Post-Industrial Electoral Alignments in Ohio,” in Historical Approaches to the Geographic Restructuring of the American Political Economy, edited by Samuel M. Otterstrom and John Heppen. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, forthcoming.

Fred M. Shelley and Heather Hollen (2008), “Geography and the 2008 U.S. Presidential Primary Elections,” in Revitalizing Electoral Geography, edited by Barney Warf and Jonathan Leib. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, forthcoming.

J. Clark Archer, Stephen J. Lavin, and Fred M. Shelley (2009),  Atlas of the Great Plains. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming.

Selected Service Activities:

Association of American Geographers
Member, Program Committee, 78th Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Texas, 1982
Member, Program Committee, 87th Annual Meeting, Miami, Florida, 1991
Member, Program Committee, 93rd Annual Meeting, Fort Worth, Texas, 1997
Member, AAG Council as elected representative from the Southwestern Division, 2000‑2003
Member, Program/Local Arrangements Committee, 99th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2003
Member, AAG Awards Committee, 2003-2006
Member and Chair, J. Warren Nystrom Award Committee, 100th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004
Member, Nominating Committee (elected by the AAG membership), 2006-2007
Member, Steering Committee, Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education (EDGE) Project, 2006-present

Association of American Geographers ‑‑ Southwest Division
Chair, Annual Fall Meeting, Norman, Oklahoma, 1983
Secretary‑Treasurer, 1984‑1985
President, 1985‑1986
Chair, Annual Fall Meeting, San Marcos, Texas, 1999
Representative to AAG Council, 2000-2003
Chair, Annual Fall Meeting, Norman, Oklahoma, 2006

Association of American Geographers ‑‑ Political Geography Specialty Group

Member, Board of Directors, 1981‑1989 and 1991‑1993
Secretary ‑ Treasurer, 1985‑1987
President, 1987‑1989

Organizer and Chair, Annual Political Geography Pre‑Conferences:
Los Angeles, 1988
Tallahassee, 1991 (with Janet E. Kodras)
Blacksburg, 1993 (with Peter J. Taylor and Susan Brooker‑Gross)
San Marcos, 1997
Medford, 1998 (with Jeff R. Crump and Colin R. Flint)
Maui, 1999 (with Fiona Davidson and Arlene M. Shelley)
Las Vegas, 2009

National Council for Geographic Education
Member, Dissertation Award Committee, 2000-2003
Co-chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 2007

Oklahoma Alliance for Geographic Education
Member, Steering Committee, 2004-present