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Karl Offen

(Pronouns: He, Him)

Contact Information:

khoffen@syr.edu

315.443.5821

121 Eggers Hall

Office Hours:

Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Karl Offen

Professor, Geography and the Environment Department


Senior Research Associate and Advisory Board Member, Program on Latin America and the Caribbean

Courses

  • 2024 Fall
    • GEO 300 Selected Topics - Historical Geo-Latin America
  • 2024 Spring
    • GEO 103 Environment and Society
    • GEO 300 Selected Topics - Latin American Historical Geo
  • 2023 Fall
    • GEO 300 Selected Topics - Maps, Power, History
  • 2023 Spring
    • GEO 610 Qualitative Methods in Geography
    • GEO 300 Selected Topics - EnvHistory-LatinAmer&Caribbean
  • 2022 Fall
    • GEO 300 Selected Topics - Historical Political Ecology

Highest degree earned

Ph.D., Department of Geography and the Environment, University of Texas at Austin, 1999

Areas of Expertise

Historical geography, political ecology, Latin America and the Caribbean, Atlantic world, map studies

Selected Publications

Presentations and Events

37th Conference of Latin American Geographers, CLAG, "The Lifeworld of Elizabeth Symons: Family biography and Atlantic geographies in a multigenerational letter collection" (January 3, 2023 - January 6, 2023)

Offen, K. H., Lovejoy, P., Múltiples facetas de la Independencia: La emancipación de América Central en retrospective, Conmemoraciones por el bicentenario de la Independencia Centroamericana (1821-2021), "The Interesting Narrative of Intrigue and Deception on the Mosquito Shore, 1773-1781" (October 14, 2021 - October 16, 2021)

36th Conference of Latin American Geographers, "Subsidy from Nature: Green Sea Turtles in the Colonial Caribbean" (January 2, 2020 - January 4, 2020)

3rd World Congress of Environmental History, "‘Infinitt numbers’: Green Sea Turtles in the Colonial Caribbean" (July 22, 2019 - July 26, 2019)

"Robert Hodgson of the Mosquito Shore: Mapping a Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Imperial Life" (June, 2019)

Previous Teaching Appointments

Professor, Department of Geography and the Environment, Syracuse University (2022-present)
Chair, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College (2019-2021)
Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College (2017-2021)
Associate Professor, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College (2015-2017)
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma (2006-2015)
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma (2000-2006)