Economic Geography

Amy K. Glasmeier
is the E. Willard Miller Professor of Economic Geography 
and the John Whisman Scholar of the Appalachian Regional Commission. She 
is a Professor of Geography and Regional Planning at The Pennsylvania State
University. Published in fall 2005 by Routledge, An Atlas of Poverty 
in America: One Nation, Pulling Apart 1960–2003, examines the experience of
people and places in poverty since the 1960s, looks across the last four decades at
poverty in America and recounts the history of poverty policy since the 1940s.
Glasmeier has worked all over the world, including Japan, Hong Kong, Latin
America and Europe. She has worked with the OECD, ERVET Emilia Romagna
Regional Planning Agency. She is currently engaged in a retrospective examination
of poverty and poverty policy history in the US. The work is leading to new
perspectives on the nature and extent of persistent poverty in America and is explor-
ing the theoretical and ideological basis for federal poverty policy since the 1960s.
Anne Green
has a first degree in Geography from University College London.
After postgraduate study she held research posts at the Centre for Urban and
Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and at the
University of Cardiff. She is currently a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute
for Employment Research – a multi-disciplinary research centre at the University
of Warwick. Her research is primarily concerned with spatial dimensions of
economic, social and demographic change; aspects of local and regional labour
markets; migration and commuting; and urban, rural and regional development.
She has extensive experience of undertaking policy-relevant research for the UK
Government.
Susan Hanson
is the Jan and Larry Landry University Professor and Professor of
Geography at Clark University, where she has taught since 1981. Her teaching
and research interests lie at the intersection of urban, economic, and social 
geography and in feminist geography. With colleagues, she has investigated the
activity patterns of urban residents and the role of gender in shaping urban
labour markets; she is currently completing a project on gender, geography, and
entrepreneurship.