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Located in the smallest research university in the U.S., Clark's Graduate School of Geography is the oldest sustained program of geography and has awarded more Ph.D.s than any other geography program in the U.S. Clark Geography was established initially in 1921 as a graduate program only, and retains the name Graduate School of Geography in honor of its legacy as the longest standing doctoral program in the United States. The undergraduate program was established in 1923. Rugg's Recommendations on Colleges rates the School as "most selective," its highest rating for programs in the United States. A Master of Arts in Geographic Information Science for Development and Environment is offered as a shared program between the Graduate School of Geography and the Department of International Development, Community and Environment.
The Graduate School of Geography is also one of the only geography programs in the North American to publish an internationally peer-reviewed journal, Economic Geography. The journal is committed to publishing the best theoretically-based empirical articles that deepen the understanding of significant economic geography issues around the world.
Clark's geography program is the only one in North America to have a mountain range named for it. The Clark Mountains, Antarctica, were named by one of program’s graduates, Paul Siple, famed meteorologist, explorer and inventor of the “wind chill factor.” Siple named the peaks of the Clark Mountains after his faculty instructors: Jones, Atwood, Burnham, Ekblaw, and Van Valkenburg.
Clark Geography is one of the only degree-granting programs to have its own commercially distributed Geographic Information System -- the IDRISI GIS and Image Processing System. Shared with the Clark Labs, George Perkins Marsh Institute, IDRISI maintains over 35,000 registered users.
Clark has a long tradition of producing women geographers as detailed by Janice Monk in her AAG Special Issue of Economic Geography (1998).
We invite you to learn more about our geography program on the accompanying web pages.
Front row left to right:
Ronald Eastman, Larry Lewis,
Yuko Aoyama, Jody Emel,
Dianne Rocheleau.
Back row left to right:
James Murphy, Colin Polsky,
Dominik Kulakowski, Douglas
Johnson, Robert Gil Pontius,
Richard Peet, John Rogan,
B. L. Turner, Sam Ratick
and Karen Frey