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Dona J Stewart

Associate Professor, Director of the Middle East Institute

Ph.D., University of Florida, 1994

Research Interests: Urban and Environmental Geography, Middle East

Dona J. Stewart is an associate professor of geography and director of the Middle East Institute. Her research focuses on urban land use change and environmental impact, historic preservation, tourism and the environment. Her research in the Middle East explores issues related to land use change,, stereotype and identity construction of the Middle East, and conflict resolution in the region.

Her teaching duties include: Geographic Research Methods, Cultural Geography, Geography of the Middle East and North Africa, and Geography of Africa.

Her primary research interests are comparative urbanization, urban spatial structure, urban landscape analysis and historical preservation in the developing world. Much of her research focuses on the Middle East and Africa. She has studied and worked in Egypt periodically since 1988 and has traveled extensively throughout the region.

 

Recent publications include:

 

  • Stewart, Dona J.(2007) Good Neighbourly Relations?: The Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty 1994-2004, I.B. Tauris.
  • Stewart, Dona J. (2006) “Atlanta” In Pillsbury, R. and Wilson, C. R. (eds). The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 2: Geography. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
  • Yin, Z.-Y., Stewart, D.J., Bullard, S., McLachlan, J.T.(2005) Changes in Urban Built-up Surface and Population Distribution Patterns during 1986-1999: A Case Study of Cairo, Egypt. Computer, Environment, and Urban Systems. 29: 595-616.
  • Stewart, Dona J. (2005) Geography and the Middle East. (editorial) The Geographical Review, 95: iii-vi.
  • Stewart, Dona J.(2005) The New Middle East in the Bush Administration’s Ideological Imagination. The Geographical Review, 95: 400-424.
  • Stewart, Dona J.; Z. Y. Yin, S. Bullard and J. MacLachlan, (2004) “Urban decentralization in Cairo: a GIS and imagery analysis approach”, Urban Studies, 41: 95-116.
  • Crampton, Jeremy W. and Dona J. Stewart, (2004) “Community Mapping as a Solution to the Problem of Digital Equity”, In B. Wharf, K. Hansen and D. Janelle (Eds.) LandMinds: 100 Geographic Solutions to Saving Planet Earth. Dordrecht and New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  • "Cairo", In Megacities: the European Space Agency's contribution to a better understanding of a global challenge. Salzburg (Austria): Geospace Verlag. pp. 74-79.
  • "New tricks with old maps: urban landscape change in lesser developed countries", The Professional Geographer, 53: 361-373.
  • "Middle East urban geography : identity and meaning", 2001, Urban Geography, 22: 175-181.
  • New Egyptian desert cities, In Lithwick, Harvey and Yehuda Gradus (eds), Developing frontier cities: global perspectives and regional contexts. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 301-312.
  • "Changing Cairo: the political economy of urban form", The International Journal of Urban and Regional Research.1999, 23:146.
  • "Economic recovery and reconstruction in postwar Beirut", The Geographical Review, October 1996 (published December 1997), 86: 487-504.
  • "African urbanization: the impact of dependent linkages in a global economy", Tijdschrift voor Economische en Social Geografie, 1997, 88: 251-261.
  • "Pesticide use habits and health awareness among small farmers in Ismailia, Egypt". Ambio, Journal of the Human Environment, September 1996, 25: 425.
  • "Cities in the desert: the Egyptian new town program". Annals of the Association of American Geographers, September 1996, vol. 86: 459-480.