CONTACT INFORMATION
Gary Cummisk, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Geography & Anthropology Dickinson State University 291 Campus Drive Dickinson, North Dakota 58601 Phone: (701) 483-2410 office Gary.Cummisk@dsu.nodak.edu
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, 1995, University of Oregon
Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, 1992, Cornell University
Master of Science in Natural Resources, 1987, Central Washington
University
Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts, Virginia Wesleyan College
RECENT
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor of Geography, Anthropology, and Education, Dickinson State University, Dickinson, North Dakota, 2003-present
Full-time Instructor of Geography and Anthropology,
Tri-County Technical College, Pendleton, South Carolina, 2000-2003.
Instructor, Anthropology, Environmental Studies,
Humanities, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington, 1995-1999
Assistant Director of Academic Programs, Ronald E.
McNair Scholars Program. Central Washington University, Ellensburg, Washington,
1998-1999
Assistant Editor, Small Town, Small Towns
Institute, Ellensburg, Washington, 1995-1996
Geography Instructor, Oregon Institute of Marine
Biology, Charleston, Oregon, 1994
Instructor, Environmental Writing, Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York, 1991-1992
AWARDS
AND
HONORS
Mini-grant to travel to regional AAG Conference,
Tri-County Technical College, 2002.
Sustainable Universities Grant (to incorporate
ecological content into course development), State of South Carolina, 2001
First Place, Yakima Allied Arts Poetry Contest, 1998
First Place, Yakima Allied Arts Poetry Contest, 1996
Geography Research Travel Grant, University of
Oregon, 1994
Roland Bradley Scholarship, University of Oregon,
1993-1994
Winner, The Corson-Bishop Prize for Poetry, Cornell
University, 1991
Alumni Federation Fellowship, Louisiana State
University, 1988-1990
Scholarship for Science and Literature, Central
Washington University, 1987
James Stokely Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching
(a Mellon Grant for Studies in the Humanities), The University of Tennessee,
1983
COMMITTEE WORK
Chair, Cultural Enrichment Committee, Tri-County
Technical College, 2001-
South Carolina International Education Consortium,
Executive Committee Member representing TriCounty Technical College, 2000-2003
RECENT CONFERENCES AND
PAPERS
Co-chair of the South Carolina International Education Consortium’s annual meeting. The theme for the Winter 2003 session is “The Indigenous World.” I arranged for presentations by representatives of South Carolina’s indigenous peoples, including Cherokee and Catawba .
Presentation: “Writing the Land: Geopoetics and the Differentiation of Landscape,” Oct. 12, 2002 Rocky Mountain and Great Plains Division Meeting, Association of American Geographers, University of Montana.
Presentation: “Risks of
Globalizaton” in The Plight of Humanity Seminar, Fall Semester, Clemson
University, 2002.
Participant in Rudy Mancke’s natural history
seminar at the Palm Key Nature Reserve in coastal South Carolina, 2001.