Jerome D. Fellmann Jerome Fellmann received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of Chicago. Except for visiting professorships at Wayne State University, the
University of British Columbia, and California State University/Northridge, his
professional career has been spent at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. His teaching and research interests have been concentrated in
the areas of human geography in general and urban and economic geography in
particular, in geographic bibliography, the geography of Russia and the CIS, and
geographic education. His varied interests have been reflected in articles
published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Professional
Geographer, Journal of Geography, the Geographical Review, and elsewhere. He is
the co-author of McGraw-Hill's Introduction to Geography. In addition to
teaching and research, he has held administrative appointments at the University
of Illinois and served as a consultant to private corporations on matters of
economic and community development. Arthur Getis Arthur Getis received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from The Pennsylvania State
University and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He is the co-author
of several geography textbooks as well as two books dealing with map pattern
analysis. He has also published widely in the areas of urban geography, spatial
analysis, and geographical information systems. He is co-editor of Journal of
Geographical Systems and for many years served on the editorial boards of
Geographical Analysis and Papers in Regional Science. He has held administrative
appointments at Rutgers University, the University of Illinois, and San Diego
State University (SDSU) and currently holds the Birch Chair of Geographical
Studies at SDSU. In 2002 he received the Association of American Geographers
Distinguished Scholarship Award. Professor Getis is a member of many
professional organizations and has served as an officer in, among others, the
Western Regional Science Association and the University Consortium for
Geographic Information Science. Judith Getis Judith Getis earned her B.A. and a teaching credential from the University of
Michigan and her M.A. from Michigan State University. She has coauthored several
geography textbooks and written the environmental handbook You Can Make a
Difference. In addition to numerous articles in the fields of urban geography
and geography education, she has written technical reports on topics such as
solar power and coal gasification. She and her husband, Arthur Getis, were among
the original unit authors of the High School Geography Project, sponsored by the
National Science Foundation and the Association of American Geographers. In
addition, Mrs. Getis was employed by the Urban Studies Center at Rutgers
University; taught at Rutgers; was a social science examiner at Educational
Testing Service, Princeton, NJ; developed educational materials for Edcom
Systems, Princeton, NJ; and was a professional associate in the Office of Energy
Research, University of Illinois. |