Alan Marcus

Selected Publications:

2023 Using “Autogeography,” sense of place and place-based approaches in the pedagogy of geographic thought, Journal of Geography in Higher Education (47)1, 71-84.

2022 When Brazil Got the Blues: The Diffusion of Blues in Brazil. Brasiliana: Journal for Brazilian Studies, 10(2), 382–406. https://tidsskrift.dk/bras/article/view/125517

2020. Marcus, Alan P. The Dangers of the Geographical Imagination in the U.S. Eugenics Movement Geographical Review (4)111: 1-21.

 2020. ___. Skiffle in the U.K.: The Indigenization of a Musical Genre. Journal of Cultural Geography (37)2: 216-235.

 2020 ___.  Where is the Geography? The Geographical Predicaments of the Panethnic Terms, “Hispanic” and “Latino.” Journal of Latin American Geography 19(2):170-190.

2015   Marcus, Alan P.   Convenient Liaisons: Brazilian Immigration/Emigration and the Spatial-relationships of Religious Networks, Space, Populations, Societies (2014-2-3)2-12.

2013___. Sex, Color, and Geography: Racialized Relations in Brazil and its Predicaments. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(5):1282-1299.

2011___. Rethinking Brazil’s Place within Latin Americanist Geography.  Journal of Latin American Geography 10(1): 129- 147.

2011__. Experiencing Ethnic Economies. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. 9:1–24.

2009___. Brazilian Immigration to the United States and the Geographical Imagination.  Geographical Review 99 (4): 481-498.

2009___. (Re)Creating Places and Spaces in Two Countries: Brazilian Transnational Migration Processes.   Journal of Cultural Geography (26)2: 173-198.

 Book Chapters:

2019   Marcus, Alan P.  Population Geographies of Brazil: A Geographer’s Personal and Professional Viewpoints. In Human Geography and Professional Mobility.  International Experiences, Critical Reflections, Practical Insights. W. A. Kusek and N. Wise (Eds.), pp. 13-24.  New York and London: Routledge. 

2016     Marcus, Alan P. Introduction.  In Navigating Autobiographies. Transnational Geographers in the United States.  A. P. Marcus (Ed.), pp. xi-xxi. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

2016    ____. Navigating My Autobiogeography: From Brazil to Baltimore. In Navigating Autobiographies. Transnational Geographers in the United States. A.P. Marcus (Ed.), pp.1-18.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

2013     ___. Global moves from and to Brazil.  In Careers without Borders: Critical Perspectives, pp.93-106.  Y. Baruch and C. Reis (Eds.). Oxford, UK: Routledge.

2011     ___. Racial Self-identification among Brazilian Immigrants in the U.S. and Returnees in Brazil.  In Race, Ethnicity, and Place in a Changing America (Second Edition), pp. 197-209.  J. Frazier, E.Tettey-Fio, and N. Henry (Eds.). NY: SUNY press.

2011      ___. Transnational Rio de Janeiro: (Re)Visiting Geographical Experiences. In Growing Up Transnational: Identity and Kinship in a Global Era, pp. 21-35.  May Friedman and Silvia Schultermandl (Eds.). Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press.

Books:

2024 Portuguese Jews and New Christians in Colonial Brazil: A New Geography of the Atlantic World (forthcoming, University of New Mexico Press).

2021 Confederate Exodus: Social and Environmental Forces in the Migration of U.S. Southerners to Brazil. University of Nebraska Press

Marcus, Alan P. (Ed.) 2016. Navigating Autobiographies. Transnational Geographers in the United States. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.

Awards:

2024 Grant Award by Towson University College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant to help defray new research project fieldwork in Ireland, Portuguese Jews in Ireland.

2023 Grant Award by Towson University College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant to help defray new research project fieldwork in situ on Jews in Dublin and Cork, Jews in Ireland (June, 2023).

2022 Grant Award by Towson University College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant for book manuscript preparation and maps, Under the Skies of the Southern Cross: A Submerged Memory in the Tropics.

2018 -- Lord Baltimore Fellowship awarded by the Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore

2018-19 -- Towson University Diversity Fellowship awarded by the Office of the Provost, Towson University.

2017 -- Grant Award by Towson University College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant. “Confederados in Brazil”.

2016 -- Travel Grant Award by Towson University College of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Grant.

2013 -- National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) supported grant, guest talk, “The Great Migration”, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi (July 7).

2012 -- National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH) supported grant, guest talk, “The Great Migration”, Delta State University, Cleveland, Mississippi (July 14).

2011 -- Recipient of Towson University Faculty Fellowship, 2011-2013: Towards a     
Geography of the Blues: Approaches to Understanding the Cultural Landscapes of the Mississippi Delta.