Early Intellectual Influences on D. W. Meinig: a Former Student's Fond Memories*

Abstract

ABSTRACT. As an undergraduate and graduate student in the 1940s and a young professor at the University of Utah in the 1950s, D. W. Meinig was influenced by a number of scholars. They included six historians, three geographers, two anthropologists, and two philosophers. I identify the influence of the thirteen scholars on Meinig's major achievements: the culture area model, geography as an art, the historical imperative for geography, cultures and civilizations, and geopolitics and imperialism.

• antimodernism
• challenge and response
• heartland
• landscape
• neotechnic

* I thank the following scholars for their help in completing this article: Bharat L. Bhatt, a former graduate student in the Syracuse University Department of Geography; Paul Hanson and Scott Swanson of the Butler University Department of History and Anthropology; Craig Colten and William Wyckoff, editors of this issue; and two anonymous reviewers.

1 Dr. Bigelow is a professor of geography at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208.

* I thank the following scholars for their help in completing this article: Bharat L. Bhatt, a former graduate student in the Syracuse University Department of Geography; Paul Hanson and Scott Swanson of the Butler University Department of History and Anthropology; Craig Colten and William Wyckoff, editors of this issue; and two anonymous reviewers.

1 Dr. Bigelow is a professor of geography at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208.

Notes

* I thank the following scholars for their help in completing this article: Bharat L. Bhatt, a former graduate student in the Syracuse University Department of Geography; Paul Hanson and Scott Swanson of the Butler University Department of History and Anthropology; Craig Colten and William Wyckoff, editors of this issue; and two anonymous reviewers.

1 Dr. Bigelow is a professor of geography at Butler University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46208.