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Charles Heatwole
Mailing Address:
Department of Geography
Hunter College of the City University of New York
695 Park Ave.
New York, NY 10065
Charles A. Heatwole is a Professor in the Geography Department at Hunter College, CUNY. He attributes his interest in geography to childhood stamp-collecting, extensive pre-college travel, and a superb high school geography teacher. For most of his career, Dr. Heatwole's teaching and research have related to human/cultural geography. While a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa, he became interested in the relationship between geography and religion. Thirty years, one doctoral dissertation, and several articles later, it is a topic that he still returns to from time to time.
During the 1970s and 80s Dr. Heatwole became active in the geography of recreation. Collaborative grants and publications dealing with beach use, marina development, and recreational fishing resulted. Later his academic work in recreational geography and personal love for travel coalesced into an interest in the geography of tourism. That led to a role as course writer/consultant for the National Academy Foundation's Academy of Travel and Tourism. Funded principally by American Express, NAF/AOTT seeks to prepare high school students for career in travel and tourism by producing curricula and teaching materials that are academically rigorous and career-related. The principal result of Dr. Heatwole's affiliation with that organization was a co-authored opus for 11th graders, Geography for Travel & Tourism.
Work on that volume led to Dr. Heatwole's current concentration on basic geographic education, participating K-12. In the late 1980s he was appointed to the Geography Advisory Board of the New York City Board of Education. In 1989 he began a decade-long association with the New York Geographic Alliance (NYGA), the New York chapter of the National Geographic Society's Geography Education Program. During 1994-1998 he served as NYGA Co-Coordinator.
Ph.D. 19xx Michigan State University M.A. 19xx Michigan State University B.A. 19xx Florida Atlantic University
Cultural, recreation, religion, geographic education
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