Associate Professor
Political Science & Geography

Tom Chapman

7030 BATTEN ARTS & LETTERS
NORFOLK, 23529

Ph.D. in Geography, Florida State University, (2007)

M.A. in Geography, University of Toledo, (1992)

B.A. in Geography, Michigan State University, (1985)

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

Chapman, T. E.. and Yen, C. "School performance in context: A geospatial framework for understanding the influence of community factors on educational achievement in Hampton Roads" $16,520. Old Dominion University. -
Chapman, T. E.. and Yarbrough, R. "Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Detecting Substandard Georgia.Research grant for project entitled: “Housing in Camden County"" $10. - 2009
Chapman, T. E.. and Yarbrough, R. "Academic service award to fund a Community Geography Initiative" $6. - 2008

Articles

Chapman, T. E.. and Steinberg, P. E.. (2009). Key West’s Conch Republic: Building Sovereignties of Connection. Political Geography.
Chapman, T. E.., Webster, G. and Leib, J. (2009). Sustaining the ‘Societal and Scriptural Fence’: Cultural, Social and Political Topographies of Same Sex Marriage in Alabama. The Professional Geographer.
Chapman, T. E.., Leib, J. and Webster, G. (2007). Race, The Creative Class, and Political Geographies of Same Sex Marriage in Georgia. Southeastern Geographer 47 (1) , pp. 27-54.
Chapman, T. E.. (2005). Globalization, Identity, and the Florida Realm of the ORION Knights of The Ku Klux Klan: Landscapes of Resistance in Immokalee, Florida. The Florida Geographer 36 , pp. 84-98.

Books

Chapman, T. E.. and Warf, B. (2006). Cathedrals of Consumption: The Political Phenomenology of Wal-Mart.” in Wal-Mart World. Routledge.

Book Chapters

Chapman, T. E.. (2006). Essays on "Public Space" and "Geographies of Justice." in Barney Warf (ed.). Encyclopedia of Human Geography (pp. 388-89; pp. 265-66.) Sage Publications.

Presentations

Chapman, T. E.. ( 2010). Study of the American South Specialty Group Plenary Session Association of American Geographers Washington, DC.
Chapman, T. E.. and Yarbrough, R. ( 2010). Mapping New Terrain: An Initial Assessment of Community Geography Project Outcomes Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Washington, DC.
Chapman, T. E.. and Yarbrough, R. ( 2009). Community Geography in the Rural American South: Lessons Learned, Challenges Ahead Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Las Vegas, Nevada.
Chapman, T. E.. ( 2008). Embodied Identities and the Body: Community Discourse and Debate Of Local Anti-Discrimination Law Based Upon Sexual Orientation Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Boston, Massachusetts.
Chapman, T. E.. and Yarbrough, R. ( 2008). Community Mapping Workshop GIS and mapping workshop given to regional non-profit organizations as part of Georgia Southern University’s Community Geography Initiative .
Chapman, T. E.. ( 2008). How to get Job in GIS Seminar given to undergraduate Geography/GIS majors at Georgia Southern University .
Chapman, T. E.. ( 2007). No Mouse in My House? Orlando ‘Gay Days’ and the Geographies of Spectacle Southeastern Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Charleston, SC.
Chapman, T. E.. ( 2006). An Applied Approach to the Politics of Place: Sexual Minority Rights and Spaces of Citizenship in Three Florida Localities Applied Geography Conference Tampa, Florida.
Chapman, T. E.. and Steinberg, P. ( 2006). Contesting Connectedness: Performance of Difference in Key West, Florida the Center for Cultural Studies University of California, Santa Cruz.
Chapman, T. E.. ( 2005). Heterosexualizing Ownership of Place: Scale Politics and the Contestation of a Human Rights Ordinance in Collier County, Florida Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado.
Chapman, T. E.. and Steinberg, P. ( 2005). The Conch Republic: Where Sovereignty is a State of Mind Political Geography Pre-Conference, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting Denver, Colorado.
Chapman, T. E.. and Leib, J. ( 2005). The Political Geographies of Same Sex Marriage in Georgia Southeastern Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting West Palm Beach, Florida.
Chapman, T. E.. ( 2004). The Political Geography of the 2004 Presidential Election. Session panelist Southeastern Division of the Association of American Geographers Biloxi, Mississippi.
  • Earl and Sophia Shaw Award for Doctoral Dissertation Research, Florida State University
  • 2008: Best Journal Article of the Year, Southeaster Geographer
  • 2005: Graduate Assistantship (Doctoral level), Florida State University