Doug Hurt

Doug Hurt
Assistant Teaching Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies
Faculty
221 Stewart Hall
573-882-8370
Education

Ph.D., Geography, University of Oklahoma

M.A., Geography, University of Missouri

B.S., Education, University of Missouri

Research Interests

Geographic patterns resulting from attachment to place and the homeland concept; geographies of public memory, heritage tourism, and popular culture; K-12 Geography teacher training; sport and regional identity

Courses Taught

Geog 1100/Regions and Nations of the World I

Geog 2120/United States and Canada

Geog 2130/Geography of Missouri

Geog 2340/South America

Geog 2710/Economic Geography

Geog 3140/Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean

Geog 3510/Historical Geography of North America

Geog 3780/World Political Geography

Geog 3800/Geography of Travel and Tourism

Geog 4990/Senior Seminar in Geography

Select Publications

Hurt, D. with Jeffrey M. Widener and Gary Gress.  2019.  The Geography Fieldwork Imperative: Strategies for Designing K-12 Field Experiences.  Research in Geographic Education 21(1): 26-44.

Hurt, D. with Adam A. Payne.  2019.  Postcard Imagery and Geographical Imagination along the Lincoln Highway.  Material Culture 51(1) 1-20. 

Hurt, D.  2018.  Baseball Stadiums and Urban Reimaging in St. Louis: Shaping Place and Placelessness.  In Explorations in Place Attachment, ed. Jeffrey S. Smith, pp. 151-166.  London: Routledge.

Payne, A and Hurt, D  2015.  Narratives of the Mother Road: Geographic Themes Along Route 66.  Geographical Review 105(3): 283-303.

Hurt, D. 2014.  Cartographic Influences on the Shaping of a Creek (Muscogee) Homeland in Indian Territory.  In Mapping Native America: Cartographic Interactions between Indigenous Peoples, Government, and AcademiaVolume II, ed. Daniel G. Cole and Imre Sutton, pp. 67-94.  Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace.

Hurt, D. with Jeffrey Widener. 2013.  The Starbucks Experience: Percolations from Mexico and the United States.  Illinois Geographer 55(2): 17-42.

Hurt, D. with Ajax Delvecki, Adam Payne, and Gary Gress. 2012.  Oklahoma Tourism Along Route 66: Pioneers, Perseverance, Community and Freedom.  Material Culture 44(1): 31-49. 

Hurt, D. with Ajax Delvecki, Adam Payne, and Gary Gress. 2011.  Roads Less Traveled: Emerging Tourism in Peru.  FOCUS on Geography 54(1): 11-23. (with Jeffrey S. Smith).

Hurt, D. 2010.  Reinterpreting the Washita Battlefield National Historic Site.  Geographical Review 100(3): 375-393.

Hurt, D. 2010.  Highway Expansion and Landscape Change in East Tennessee.  FOCUS on Geography 53(2): 72-80.

Hurt, D. 2006.  Teaching and Research in Historical Geography:  A Survey of U.S. Practitioners.  Historical Geography 34: 71-85.

Hurt, D. with Michael L Wallace. 2005.  Teaching American Indian Geography and History with New Perspectives:  The Lodge Pole River Project Example.  Journal of Geography 104(5): 187-193.

Hurt, D. 2005.  Dialed In?:  Geographic Expansion and Regional Identity in NASCAR’s Nextel Cup Series.  Southeastern Geographer 45(1): 120-137.

Hurt, D. 2003.  Defining American Homelands:  A Creek Nation Example, 1828-1907.  Journal of Cultural Geography 21(1): 19-43.