He is a professor in the Department of Geography at Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, where he has been since 2002. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D from the University of Kansas. He is a broadly trained cultural geographer who has published on a range of topics — community supported agriculture, place in comics and graphic novels, ethnic identity and place, and neolocalism. From 2005-2007, he served as Secretary, Vice-President, and President of the Middle States Division of the AAG, and organized the 2007 annual meeting. Since 2017, he has been editor of the Journal of Cultural Geography, and before that, he was editor of The Geographical Bulletin, Gamma Theta Upsilon’s peer-reviewed journal for student research in geography. His term as Middle States Division Regional Councilor ends June 2024.