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Malcolm L. Comeaux

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Title: Emeritus Faculty
Office: SCOB 132
Phone: 480-965-7533
E-mail: comeaux@asu.edu
Education:

1969 - Ph.D. (Geography) Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
1966 - M.A. (Geography) Southern Illinois University, Carbondale
1963 - B.A. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
Research Interests:

Culture diffusion and culture change, historical geography, geography of Europe, history of geographic thought, geography of Arizona and the Southwest, the French of Louisiana, geographic education
Awards and Honors:

Malcolm Comeaux Lecture Series established through an ASU School of Geographical Sciences endowment.

Association of American Geographers, Distinguished Teaching Honors, 2002.

Arizona Geographic Alliance, 2001-02, State of Arizona. $100,000 (with Ron Dorn).

Arizona State University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Distinguished Teaching Award for Faculty, 2001.

Wilbur Murra Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Social Studies. Awarded by the Arizona Council for the Social Studies, 1999.

Presidential Citation for Distinguished Service, 1998. Awarded by Gamma Theta Upsilon, Geographical Honor Society.

Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award, 1997. Awarded by the National Council for Geographic Education.
Selected Publications:

Comeaux, M. L. (2005). What Games Can Say: Two Medieval Games from French Louisiana. Louisiana History. 46:47-63.

Comeaux, M. L. (1989). Use of Hoop Nets in the Mississippi River Basin. Journal of Cultural Geography. 10:75-87.

Comeaux, M. L. (1989). The Cajun Barn. Geographical Review. 79:47-62.

Rowles G. D. & Comeaux, M. L.  (1987). A Final Journey: Post-Death Removal of Human Remains. Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie. 78:114-24 (with Graham Rowles).

Comeaux, M. L. (1982). Attempts to Establish and Change a Western Boundary. Annals, Association of American Geographers. 72:254-71.

Comeaux, M. L. (1981). Arizona: A Geography. Westview Press (336 pages).

Comeaux, M. L. (1972). Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations. School of Geoscience, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, (111 pages).

Outreach and Service:

Co-coordinator Emeritus, Arizona Geographic Alliance (2001 - present)

Co-founder and Co-coordinator, Arizona Geographic Alliance (1992 - 2001)

Organizer and Coordinator, Friends for Geography (1991 - 2003)

Faculty Advisor, Gamma Theta Upsilon, International Geographical Honor Society (1970 - 2001, 2004 - 2007)