Brad T.
Dearden
Curriculum Vitae
Associate Professor
of Geography ·
Department of Social Sciences, Business
and Global Studies
University of Maine
Farmington ·
270 Main Street, Farmington, Maine 04938
· E-mail: brad.dearden@maine.edu
EDUCATION Ph.D.,
Geography, 2006
Dissertation: The Impact of Employment Change on Internal
Migration
Trends in Western
Germany , 1982-1997: A Multivariate, Demographic
Shift-Share Analysis.
Master of Arts,
International Administration, 1990
The
School for International Training, Brattleboro ,
Vermont
Thesis: InterSoft: An analytical software tool for international development
funding organizations.
Bachelor
of Science, Computer Information Systems, 1986
CURRENT Associate
Professor of Geography
APPOINTMENT Department of Social Sciences,
Business and Global Studies
University of
Maine Farmington, Farmington, Maine
Courses taught:
· Research in Geography (GEO 450)
· Transit South: Latin America and Its
Inspirations (HON 377S)
(Honors
course, team taught with four additional faculty)
· Political Geography (GEO 334)
· Economic Geography (GEO 320)
· International Development (GEO 310)
· Geography of Terrorism (GEO 277/Special
Topics)
· Geography of Development (GEO
277/Special Topics)
· Cultural Geography (GEO 232)
· Asia: Peoples & Environments (GEO
214)
· Latin America: Peoples & Environments
(GEO 212)
· Peoples and Environments (GEO 103)
· Elements of Geography (GEO 102)
· Introduction to Regional Geography (GEO
101)
· First Year Seminar: Picturing Place (FYS
100)
(Sep 2001 –
Current)
PUBLICATIONS Dearden, B. “Defining Human
Migration” (Chapter) in The Impact of
(Peer Reviewed) Korean
Migration Upon Ancient Japanese Culture, by Chung-Myun Lee.
Dearden,
B. “The Laws of Human Migration (Chapter) in The Impact of
Korean
Migration Upon Ancient Japanese Culture, by Chung-Myun Lee.
Kontuly,
T. and Dearden B. (2003). Testing the temporal characterization of
the
differential urbanization model in western Germany over the period
1939-2010. Tijdschrift
voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, 94(1):
64-74.
Kontuly, T. and Dearden, B.
(1998). European regional population redistribution since 1970. Informationen
zur Raumentwicklung. Heft 11/12, pp. 713-722.
PUBLICATIONS Dearden,
B. (Oct 2009) At a Crossroads?
Urbanization, Globalization and
(Non Peer Reviewed) the Environment in Islamic Cities.
Conference Proceedings, International
Symposium
on Cities and Civilization, Corum,
Turkey.
Dearden,
B. (2008). “The economic landscape of the Americas , past and
present”
Bangor Daily News, Nov. 17.
Dalpour,
S.W. and B. Dearden (2008). Globalization
processes and the
[Qurban
Eid] sacrifice: Effects on world peace and economy. Proceedings,
International Symposium on Sacrifice, Istanbul , Turkey
2007.
Dearden,
B. (2008). The unmet need for family planning in Comalapa,
Guatemala.
Report prepared for Women’s International Network for
Guatemalan
Solutions.
Dearden, B.
(2007). “Asia ’s physical geography: An overview.”
Bangor
Daily
News, Nov. 13.
Dissertation
(2006): The Impact of employment change
on internal
migration trends in Western Germany
demographic shift-share analysis.
Dearden, B. and
McAnneny, C. (eds.) (2005). Proceedings
of the New
England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical
Society, volume XXXIV.
Dearden,
B. (ed.) The Impact of Korean Migration
Upon Ancient Japanese
Culture
(forthcoming), by Chung-Myun Lee.
Dearden, B. (1990). InterSoft:
An analytical software tool for international development funding organizations. Masters thesis, The School for International
Training, Brattleboro, Vermont.
PRESENTATIONS Dearden, B. (Apr 2013). The world in the classroom: bringing
international
AND PANELS
fieldwork and research to college
students. Paper presented at the
Association
of American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA
Dearden,
B. (Oct 2012). Integrating travel and
fieldwork into the university
classroom experience. Paper presented at
New England-St. Lawrence
Valley
Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Farmington, Maine.
Dearden,
B. (Oct 2012). Urbanization and
accommodation: Accounting for
alternative
needs and forms in urban design. Paper presented at The Second
International
Congress of Urban History Writers Meeting, Konya, Turkey.
Dearden,
B. (Oct 2011). Adverts and iconography:
Contextualizing the
visual-economic
in Beijing transit space. Paper presented at New
Montreal,
Canada.
Dearden,
B. (May 2011). The geography of East Asia
and its effects on
culture. Presented for the “James Brown Lecture
Series,” Foxcroft
Academy,
Dover-Foxcroft, Maine.
Dearden, B. (Apr 2011). Moving spaces of commerce: Images of the
economic
in Beijing transport city-space. Paper presented at the Association
of
American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington.
Dearden,
B. (Feb 2011). Commerce in Motion: Images
of the economic in
Beijing
transport city-space. Presented at Art
and Visual Communications
Lecture
Series: “Global Spotlight China,”
Utah Valley Univ., Orem, Utah.
Dearden,
B. (Dec 2010). A brief geography of eastern Asia.
Presented at
the Maine Humanities Council
program: “China, Japan, and Korea:
Perspectives
on East Asia”, Thornton Academy, Saco, Maine.
Panel organizer. (Nov 2009). Development
of an Appropriate Inventory
Diagnostic
Instrument to Improve Undergraduate GIS Education. New
England-St.
Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Annual Meeting,
Salem,
Massachusetts.
Dearden,
Brad; Irwin, David; Knight, Kevin; and Qualey, Addie. (Mar
2009).
The unmet need for family planning in a
Maya community:
Contraceptive awareness, prevalence and
attitudes in Comalapa,
Annual
Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Dearden, Brad;
Knight, Kevin; Irwin, David; and Qualey, Addie.
(Nov 2008). Fertility patterns and assessment of the
unmet need for family
planning
in a Kakchiquel town, Guatemala. Paper presented at New
Plymouth,
New Hampshire.
PRESENTATIONS Dearden, B. (Jan 2008; Jan 2007; Mar 2006). A brief geography of East
AND PANELS Asia. Presentation for the National Consortium
for Teaching about Asia;
(cont’d.) Waterville (2008),
Belfast (2007) and Ellsworth (2006), Maine.
geography
of East Asia . Presentation for the World Affairs Council of
Maine,
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.
Dearden, B. (Apr 2007). A test of demographic transformation as an
explanation
for internal migration trends in western Germany, 1991-1999.
Paper
presented at the Association of American Geographers’ Annual
Meeting,
San Francisco, California.
Dearden,
B. (Oct 2006). Land degradation in the
Sahel: Local factors,
supra-regional
consequences. Maine Geographic Alliance meeting.
Panelist.
(Oct 2006). The state of Geography in
Academics: The 2006
Healthy
Departments Workshop. New England -St. Lawrence Valley
Geographical
Society Annual Meeting, Burlington, Vermont.
Dearden, B. (Mar
2006). Declining fertility and the impact of the ‘cohort
effect’
on internal migration trends in western Germany, 1991-1997. Paper
presented
at the Association of American Geographers’ Annual
Meeting, Chicago,
Illinois.
Dearden,
B. (Oct 2005). Testing the importance of
the ‘cohort effect’ on
internal
migration trends in western Germany, 1991-1997. Paper presented
at
the New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society Annual
Meeting,
Keene, New Hampshire.
Panelist.
(Apr 2005). Confronting the challenges of
teaching world regional
geography. Panel participant at the
Association of American Geographers’
Annual
Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Panelist.
(Feb 2005). Conditional equality?
Divisions of ethnicity, gender,
and
sexuality in the shape of citizenship. Sponsored by The Women’s
Studies
Center, University of Maine Farmington.
Dearden, B. (Oct
2004). Multi-national corporations, industry
and
population trends: Global and local dynamics.
Paper presented at the
Global
Affairs Forum, University of Maine Farmington.
Dearden, B. (Mar
2004). Testing economic structural change
as an
explanation for internal migration trends in
Western Germany, 1991-1997.
Paper
presented at the Association of American Geographers’ Centennial
Meeting,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PRESENTATIONS Dearden, B. (Nov 2002). A shift-share application for internal migration
AND PANELS change
in Western Germany, 1991-1997. Paper presented at the New
(cont’d.) England-St.
Lawrence Valley
Geographical Society Annual Meeting,
Kontuly, T. and
Dearden, B. (Mar 2001). Regional
population development
in Europe since the 1970s. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Population
Association of America, Washington D.C.
Dearden, Brad T. (Mar
2001). Testing the "cohort
effect" as an explanation
for internal
migration trends in western Germany, 1983-1997. Paper
presented
at Association of American Geographers’ 97th Annual Meeting,
New
York, New York.
Kontuly,
T. and Dearden, B. (Mar 2001). European
regional population
redistribution during the 1990s. Paper
presented at Association of
American
Geographers’ 97th Annual Meeting, New York, New York.
Dearden, B. and
Kontuly, T. (Sep 2000). A demographic
shift-share
application for testing economic structural change as an explanation
for
regional population deconcentration in
western Germany
Paper presented
at the Great Plains/Rocky Mountain division of the
Association of
American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Provo, Utah.
Dearden, B. and
Kontuly, T. (Apr 2000). Testing the
importance of
economic structural change as an explanation
for regional population
deconcentration in western Germany.
Paper presented at Association of
American
Geographers’ 96th Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Dearden,
B. and Kontuly, T. (Sep 1999). Testing
the differential
urbanization model in western Germany:
1939-2010. Paper presented at
the
Great Plains/Rocky Mountain division of the Association of American
Geographers’
Annual Meeting, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Kontuly, T. and
Dearden, B. (Mar 1999). Internal
population redistribution
in
western German regional urban systems. Paper presented at Association
of
American Geographers’ Annual Meeting, Honolulu, Hawaii.
ADDITIONAL Visiting
faculty member, Beijing University of Technology (spring 2010).
TEACHING
Instructor
Department
of Geography, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Courses
taught (solely responsible for):
· Principles of Geographic Information Systems
(Geog 3140)
· World Regional Geography (Geog 1600)
· World Regional Geography Telecourse
(Geog 1600)
· Human Geography (Geog 1400)
(Sep
1996 - Summer, 2001)
Faculty
Taught
writing, literature, and critical thinking to college students;
tailored
curriculum to individual needs for learning disabled students.
(Aug
1995 - Aug 1996)
Teacher,
English as a Second Language
Interlink
Language Center at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana
Enhanced
English proficiency of international students entering
university
studies, directed cultural adjustment orientations
(Mar
1994 - May 1994; One-Term Contract)
GRANTS, AWARDS, World Link Partners. Grant
($1,400) to evaluate several small NGOs in
CONSULTANCIES Nepal collaborating with World Link
on various health, education and
micro-credit projects.
University
of Maine Farmington Provost’s Office Academic
Enhancement
Fund ($500). Grant to research the use
of information from
the
field (Nepal) in the geography classroom to improve mixed-methods
instructional
techniques, elicit student participation and enhance learning.
Consultant to document in
photographs the work of Let’s Be Ready,
an NGO whose mission is to supplement curricular programs to improve elementary
school retention rates in rural Guatemala ($675).
Consultant
for creation of a Concept Inventory-Based Diagnostic tool to
improve
undergraduate GIS education; implemented across five University
of
Maine System campuses ($3,000).
University
of Maine Farmington service-learning mini-grant (co-award
with
Sarah Hardy, Associate Professor of Mathematics, University of Maine
at
Farmington) ($500).
Women’s
International Network for Guatemalan Solutions ($1,000). Grant
awarded
to assess contraceptive attitudes, prevalence and the unmet need
for
contraceptive services in Comalapa, Guatemala (Jul-Aug 2007).
GRANTS, AWARDS, Fellow, American Association of State Colleges and
Universities
CONSULTANCIES (AASCU), for the Japan Studies Institute, June, 2005.
(cont’d.)
Graduate Research
Travel Award, University of Utah, 2001; 2000; 1999.
Student
Travel Award, Association of American Geographers, 1999.
PEER REVIEWS Proceedings of the New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical
Society.
Vol. 34, 2005.
Proceedings of the Institute of Behavioral
and Applied Management, 2003 .
Proceedings of the New
England -St. Lawrence Valley Geographical
Society. Vol. 31, 2001.
MEMBERSHIPS Association of American
Geographers (AAG)
New England-St. Lawrence Valley Geographical Society
Asian
Geography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
Latin
American Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
Population
Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers
Gamma Theta Upsilon, International
Geographical Honor Society
PROFESSIONAL Foreign Policy Speaker, Maine
Humanities Council’s Foreign Policy
ACTIVITIES AND Program series.
SERVICE (Jan 2013 – Dec 2013).
Chair,
Institutional Review Board (IRB) at University of Maine Farmington
(IRB Chair, Jan
2011 – current; member of IRB beginning Sep 2010).
Member,
International and Global Studies Council, University of Maine at
Farmington
(2002-current).
Member,
Maine Geographic Alliance Steering Committee (2005-current).
Treasurer,
New England-St. Lawrence
Valley Geographical Society
(Oct
2006 – current).
Member,
Academic Planning and Assessment Committee, University of Maine at Farmington (Sep
2007 – Jun 2009).
PROFESSIONAL Co-organizer, Asia: South by Southeast. Workshop
Series for K-12 Social
ACTIVITIES
AND Science Educators in
Maine, co-sponsored by the University of Maine at
SERVICE
(cont’d.) Farmington and
the Maine Geographic Alliance (Oct 2007).
Analyst for child
nutrition project in Senahu region of Guatemala. Worked
collaboratively
with Naru, a not-for-profit based in Antigua, Guatemala.
Maine State
Representative to the Board of the New England-St. Lawrence
Valley Geographical
Society (2005-2007).
Member,
Academic Standards Committee, University
of Maine
Reviewer
(jointly with two other faculty), International Partnership program
(with
Tunisia ) at the State University
of New York at Potsdam (May 2006).
Co-organizer,
Historical foundations, contemporary relationships:
Teaching
Japan and the Koreas in the 21st century. Seminar for K-12
Social
Science
Educators in Maine , co-sponsored by the University of Maine
Co-organizer, Dragons and Pandas and China – Oh, My!
Expanding the
Dimensions of Teaching about China. Seminar for K-12 Social Science
Educators in Maine,
co-sponsored by the University of Maine at
Farmington
and the Maine Geographic Alliance (Mar 2006).
Chair,
Geography Search Committee, University of Maine Farmington
(2005-2006).
Session Chair, Population and Urban Change, New
England-St.
Lawrence
Valley Geographical Society Annual Meeting, Keene, New
Hampshire (Oct
2005).
Program
Chair, Annual Conference of New England-St. Lawrence Valley
Geographical
Society Annual Meeting, Portland, Maine (Oct 2004).
Member, Geography
Search Committee, University of Maine Farmington
(2003-2004).
Judge,
Maine State Geography Bee (annually 2002-2005; 2007-2009).
Session Chair, Economic Geography, New England-St.
Lawrence Valley
Geographical Society
Annual Meeting, New Bedford Massachusetts
(Oct 2001).
Research
Assistant, Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana
State
University, 1993.
PROFESSIONAL Student Body President, School
for International Training, 1988-1989.
ACTIVITIES AND
SERVICE (cont’d.) Graduate
Admissions Committee Member, School for International
Training, 1988-1989.
PROFESSIONAL Database Consultant
WORK Albert Schweitzer Institute for the
Humanities, Hamden, Connecticut
EXPERIENCE Developed automated access to
medical professionals in Schweitzer
programs
worldwide, designed and implemented data queries
(Jul
1994 - Mar 1995; Database Development Project)
Director,
American Academic Pursuits
Founded
academic advising agency to assist Taiwanese students with
applications and
information pertaining to U.S.
graduate programs
(Oct
1991 - Oct 1992)
Assistant to the
Director, Department of Humanitarian Services
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints, Salt Lake City, Utah
Organized graduate course in development methodology,
designed two
database
systems for international projects and volunteer professionals
(Oct
1989 - Apr 1990)
Student
Services Coordinator, Office of Student Services
School
for International Training, Brattleboro ,
Vermont
Supervised
15 employees, organized campus educational, cultural, and
social
events, directed student government
(Feb
1989 - May 1989)
Lead Programmer and
Associate Analyst, Development Office
Brigham Young
University, Provo, Utah
Co-developed
300,000-name philanthropic database, evaluated
software,
recommended system purchases to management
(Oct
1985 - Jul 1988)
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