J. Nicholas Entrikin is Professor of Geography and Vice Provost of International Studies Emeritus at UCLA, and Professor of Sociology and Vice President for Internationalization Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. At UCLA, he served as chair of the Department of Geography, chair of Global Studies, founding member of the Institute of the Environment, and director of the International Institute. At the University of Notre Dame, he created Notre Dame International, which oversaw international programs and institutes, and the Notre Dame Global Gateways, a worldwide network of teaching and research centers.
Professor Entrikin’s research is in the area of cultural geography and he has written on themes concerning democratic place-making and regionalism. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a CNRS Visiting Director of Research at IRSAM-SET, Université de Pau et Pays de l’Adour in France, and the Association of American Geographers Delegate to the American Council of Learned Societies. He has published numerous articles in international geography and sociology journals and has authored and edited books in human geography including: The Betweenness of Place: Towards a Geography of Modernity; Reflections on Richard Hartshorne’s ‘The Nature of Geography’; Regions: Critical Essays in Human Geography; The Marshall Plan Today: Model and Metaphor; and Envisioning Landscapes, Making Worlds.