Doctor of Philosophy, University of Washington, 1983
Geography

Master of Arts, University of Washington, 1980
Geography

Bachelor of Arts, cum laude in general studies, Harvard University, 1977
Urban Studies

Research specialty:  sub-national, regional economic development
Particular themes:  economic and institutional factors in the reproduction and employment of local labor forces;  the role of service industries in regional economic development; the relationships among industry characteristics, business strategy, and location; and the implications of international economic integration for regional economic development.
Empirical studies have focused on:  occupational change in service sectors;  producer-service-sector growth and location; the US commercial banking industry; and North American economic integration.

University at Buffalo

1988-1991	Associate Director, Canada-United States Trade Center
1990-1991	Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Geography
1999-2008	External Advisory Board, Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in GIScience

George Mason University

1992-1993	Curriculum Committee Chair, School of Public Policy
1993	Faculty search committee (4 positions), Dept. of Geography and Earth Systems Science
1993-1994	Graduate Program Director, School of Public Policy

National Science Foundation

1994-1996	Director, Geography and Regional Science Program;  co-chair, Divisional management team for Human Dimensions of Global Change;  Divisional representative to cross-Directorate working group for Civil Infrastructure Systems
1996-1997	Director, Geography and Regional Science Program; Science Policy Officer, Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (advise Assistant Director, SBE, on broad research issues; coordinate Directorate roles in NSF-wide scientific activities and initiatives; draft rationales for Directorate budget requests);  coordinator of cross-Directorate working group on urban-research initiatives

University of Washington

1997-1998	Departmental Executive Committee, Graduate Admissions Committee, Graduate Program Review Committee, Space and Technology Committee; Chair search committee, Department of Anthropology
1998-1999	Departmental Graduate Program Coordinator;  Development/Community Outreach Committee;  College of Arts and Sciences UIF review panel;  Dean search committee, School of Business Administration
1999-2000	Departmental Graduate Program Coordinator;  Departmental Strategic Planning Committee;  Departmental faculty search committee chair;  Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program Faculty/Staff Advisory Committee
2000-2005	Chair, Department of Geography
2001-2005	Advisory Board memberships: Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program,  University Center for Instructional Development and Research,  Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics
2005-2008	Leadership, Values, and Community Initiative Team; faculty leadership committee; LCVI/ADVANCE workshop steering committee Faculty Council on Tri-Campus Policy
2006-2007	Deputy Faculty Legislative Representative; Faculty Senate Executive Committee
2007-2008	Faculty Legislative Representative;  Faculty Senate Executive Committee;  Senate Committee on Planning & Budgeting;  Faculty Council for Tri-Campus Policy;  Advisory Search Committee for Dean of Arts & Sciences;  Advisory Search Committee for Vice Provost for Planning & Budgeting;  Graduate School Advisory Board;  Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program faculty advisory board;  Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics advisory board;  chair, external review committee for the Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences Program, UW-Bothell
2008-2009	Faculty Legislative Representative;  Faculty Senate Executive Committee;  Senate Committee on Planning & Budgeting;  Faculty Council for Tri-Campus Policy;  Graduate School Advisory Board;  Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program advisory board;  Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics advisory board
2009-2010	Faculty Senate vice chair;  Faculty Senate Executive Committee;  Senate Committee on Planning & Budgeting;  Faculty Council for Tri-Campus Policy;  Graduate School Advisory Board;  Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program advisory board;  Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics advisory board;  Department of Geography Executive Committee
2010-2011	Faculty Senate chair;  University Presidential Search Advisory Committee;  Faculty Senate Executive Committee;  Senate Committee on Planning & Budgeting; President's Advisory Committee for Enterprise Risk Management;  IT Costing Oversight Group;  Graduate School Advisory Board;  Graduate Opportunities and Minority Achievement Program advisory board;  Global Trade, Transportation, and Logistics advisory board;  Department of Geography Technology Committee
2011-2012	Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, UWT;  Provost Search Advisory Committee

 

Undergraduate
Introduction to Geography
Introduction to Human Geography
Economic Geography
US Contemporary Problems (applied economic geography)
Geographies of Marketing and Retail (spring '11, 43 students)
Geography of International Trade (autumn '10, 42 students)
Economic Applications of Geographic Information
Regional Economic Development
Seminar in Economic Geography and Regional Science
Seminar in International Marketing
Assessing Geographic Learning

2005    Senior thesis supervisor for Hunter Barcello  

2007    Qualifying paper supervisor for Kim Housepian (International Studies)

2008-09    General Studies supervisor for Tabitha Smith;  Individualized Studies supervisor for Peter Fleishman

1983-1997   Graduate Supervisor for 2 M.S. students, 16 M.A. students, and 4 Ph.D. students (Sylvia Ashrafiuon, 1987; Sungjae Choo, 1993; Paul Baker, 1997; Robert Penny, 1997)

1998 - present    Graduate Supervisor for 1 M.A. student (Shaun McMullin, 2000) and 7 Ph.D. students (completions:  John Carruthers, 2001;  So-Min Cheong, 2001;  Hyungjoo Kim, 2004;  Deron Ferguson, 2005;  Nicholas Velluzzi, 2007), University of Washington.  Current (2008-09) committee member for 5 Ph.D. students.  Affiliate faculty status in the Interdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Urban Planning.

1999        External evaluator for Kevin Rees's Ph.D. dissertation, Simon Fraser University.

2003-04    External evaluator for Michael Ziolkowski's Ph.D. dissertation, University at Buffalo.

2004        External evaluator for Tim Reiffenstein's Ph.D. dissertation, Simon Fraser University.
 
 

Harrington, J.W. and Warf, B. 1995. Industrial Location: Principles, Practice, and Policy. London and New York: Routledge.

Wilbanks, T.J., et al., 1997. Rediscovering Geography: New Relevance for the New Century. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Brunn, S.D., Cutter, S.L., and Harrington, J.W., eds.  2004.  Geography and Technology.  Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

LeHeron, R.B. and Harrington, J.W., eds.  2005.  New Economic Spaces, New Economic Geographies.  Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Harrington, J.W. and Daniels, P.W., eds.  2006.  Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalisation and Regional Development.  Aldershot:  Ashgate Publishing.

Daniels, P.W. and Harrington, J.W., eds. 2007.  Services and Economic Development in the Asia-Pacific.  Aldershot:  Ashgate Publishing.

Harrington, J.W. 1982. A Comparative View of US Government Subsidy to the Ocean- and Air-transport Industries.
Maritime Policy and Management 9: 23-28.

______. 1985. Corporate Strategy, Business Strategy and Activity Location. Geoforum 16: 349-356.

______. 1985. Intraindustry Structural Change and Location Change: US Semiconductor Manufacturing, 1958-1980. Regional Studies 19: 343-352.

______. 1985. Pitfalls and Possibilities of Industrial Geographic Theorizing. Ontario Geographer 25: 55-66.

Harrington, J.W., Burns, K., and Cheung, M. 1986. Market-Oriented Foreign Investment and Regional Development: Canadian Companies in Western New York. Economic Geography 62: 155-166.

Harrington, J.W. and Amrhein, C. G. 1986. Technical and Locational Evolution in a Heterogeneous Industry. Papers of the Regional Science Association 59: 13-27.

Amrhein, C. G. and Harrington, J.W. 1988. Location, Technical Change, and Labor Migration in a Heterogeneous Industry. Regional Studies 22 (6): 515-529.

Harrington, J.W. and Barnas, D. J. 1988. Foreign-Owned Firms and Regional-Functional Specialization. Environment and Planning A 20: 937-952.

Harrington, J.W. and Lombard, J. R. 1989. Producer-Service Firms in a Declining Manufacturing Region. Environment and Planning A 21: 65-79.

Harrington, J.W. 1989. Implications of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement for Regional Provision of Producer Services. Economic Geography 65(4): 314-328.

Harrington, J.W. and Rugman, A. 1990. The Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement: Regional Curse or Blessing? Canadian Journal of Regional Science 13(2-3): 157-162.

Harrington, J.W. 1990. North American Commercial Banking After the Free Trade Agreement. Canadian Journal of Regional Science 13(2-3): 327-345.

Harrington, J.W., MacPherson, A.D., and Lombard, J.R. 1992. Interregional Trade in Producer Services: Review and Synthesis. Growth and Change 24(4): 75-94.

Harrington, J.W. 1992. Determinants of Bilateral Operations of Canadian and U.S. Commercial Banks. Environment and Planning A 24: 137-151.

__________. 1995. Empirical Research on Producer-Service Growth and Regional Development: International Comparisons. The Professional Geographer 47(1): 66-69.

__________. 1995. Producer Services Research in U.S. Regional Studies. The Professional Geographer 47(1): 87-96.

Harrington, J.W., derBoghossian, J., and Jin, D. 1996. La Restructuration des Banques Commerciales aux États-Unis. L’Espace Géographique 25(4): 323-330.

Harrington, J.W. and Holly, B. 1996. Introduction to Special Issue on Producer Services Research. Papers in Regional Science 75(3): iii-vi..

Harrington, J.W. and Campbell, H.S. 1997. The Suburbanization Of Producer-Service Employment. Growth and Change 28(3): 335-359.

Sheppard, E., Couclelis, H., Graham, S., Harrington, J.W., and Onsrud, H.  1999.  Geographies of the Information Society.  Int'l J. of Geographical Information Science 13(8): 797-823. 

Park, Y.J., Kim, K., and Harrington, J.W.  2011.  The Economic Effects of Economic Cooperation of Korea, China, and Japan.  Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies 11(1): 109-124. 
 

Harrington, J.W. 1986. Learning and Locational Change in the US Semiconductor Industry. Chapter 6 in J. Rees, ed., Technology, Regions, and Policy. New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield.

______. 1989. The Heterogeneity of Industry Change, Competition, and Regional Impacts. In W. H. Berentsen, D. R. Donta, and E. Daroczi, eds., Regional Development Processes and Policies. Budapest: Centre for Regional Studies.

______. 1987. Strategy Formulation, Organisational Learning, and Location. Chapter 4 in B. van der Knapp and E. Wever, eds., Technology and Regional Development. London: Croom Helm.

Harrington, J.W., MacPherson, A.D., and Lombard, J.R. 1997. Interregional Trade in Producer Services: Review and Synthesis. Reprinted in J.R. Bryson and P.W. Daniels, eds., Service Industries in the Global Economy. London: Elgar.

Harrington, J.W. and Ferguson, D.A.  2001. Social  Institutions,  Labor  Processes, and  Regional  Economic  Development.  Ch. 3 in B. Johansson, C. Karlsson, and R. Stough, eds.  Theories of Endogenous Regional Growth: Lessons for Regional Policy.  Berlin:  Springer-Verlag.

Harrington, J.W., Barnes, T.J., Glasmeier, A.K., Hanink, D.M., and Rigby, D.L.  2004.  Economic Geography: Reconceiving "The Economic" and "The Region."  Ch. 9 in G.Gaile and C.Willmott, eds.  Geography in America At the Dawn of the 21st Century.  Oxford:  Oxford University Press.

Harrington, J.W. and LeHeron, R.B.  2005.  Describing, Studying, and Creating New Economic Spaces.  Ch. 1 in LeHeron and Harrington, eds.  New Economic Spaces, New Economic Geographies.  Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Harrington, J.W. and Daniels, P.W.  2006.  International and Regional Dynamics of Knowledge-Based Services.  Ch. 1 in Harrington and Daniels, eds.  Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalisation and Regional Development.  Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Kim, H. and Harrington, J.W.  2006.  Post-Secondary Education:  Education, Training, and Technology Services.  Ch. 10 in Harrington and Daniels, eds. Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalisation and Regional Development.  Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing.

Daniels, P.W. and Harrington, J.W.  2007.  Services and Development in the Asia-Pacific: Introduction and Overview.  Ch. 1 in Daniels and Harrington, eds.  Services and Economic Devlopment in the Asia-Pacific.  Aldershot:   Ashgate Publishing.

Harrington, J.W. and Velluzzi, N.  2008.   Labor Market Intermediation.  Ch. 15 in C.Tamasy and M.Taylor, eds.  Globalising Worlds and New Economic Configurations.  Farnham (England):  Ashgate Publishing.

Delaney, E. and Harrington, J.W.  2009.  Regional Development: Cumulative Causation.  Entry in R.Kitchin and N.Thrift, eds.  International Encyclopedia of Human Geography.  Oxford:  Elsevier, Ltd.

Harrington, J.W. and Kauffman, C.  2011.  Local Entrepreneurship.  Section in Ch. 2., "Economic Geographies" in M.Brown abd R.Morrill, eds.  Seattle Geographies.  Seattle: University of Washington Press.
 

CONTRIBUTIONS  TO  ONLINE  RESOURCES

Nellis, M.D. and Harrington, J.W.  2007.  Beyond the Department: Building Effective Relationships with Deans, Provosts, and Presidents.  Healthy Departments Initiative of the Association of American Geographers.

Amrhein, C. G. and Harrington, J. W. 1985. Simulating Intraindustry Change. Modeling and Simulation 16.

Harrington, J.W. 1992. Finance and Regional Economies. Proceedings of the Korea-USA Joint Seminar on Scientific Methodology for Regional Environment, pp. 297-209. Seoul: Korea Section of the Regional Science Association.
  

1990-2002: Treasurer, Industrial Geography Specialty Group of the AAG

1992-1994: Content Advisory Committee of the National Geography Standards Project, coordinated by the National Council for Geographic Education.

1992-1994: Organizer and newsletter editor for the North American Service Industries Research Network.

1993-2000:  Executive Director, North American Regional Science Council.

1994-1995: Rediscovering Geography Committee of the National Academy of Sciences

1994-1997: National Councilor, Association of American Geographers (AAG)

1995-1997: Secretary, Association of American Geographers (AAG)

1997-2004:  Centennial Coordinating Committee, AAG

1998-2000:  Chair, Economic  Geography Specialty Group, AAG

1998-2000:  Chair, Affirmative Action and Minority Status Committee, AAG

1999-2001:  Co-Chair;  Business, Industry, and Government Affinity Group of the AAG and American Geographical Society

2000-2004:  U.S. representative to the International Geographical Union's Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces

2001-2007:  Vice President, President, Past President of the Association of Washington Geographers

2004:    Local Organizer and Program Chair, 51st N.American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International.

2004-2008:  U.S. representative to the International Geographical Union's Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces

2005:  Chair, Academic Quality Assessment review committee for Department of Geoscience, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

2005-2006:    Nominating Committee Chair, AAG;  advisor to the "Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in Geography" project, AAG;  co-leader, Geography Faculty Development Alliance workshops, June 2005, 2006, 2007
 
2007-2009:  Co-chair, Washington Council of Faculty Representatives;  co-organizer (with Ken Foote) of 2008 & 2009 Geography Faculty Development Alliance

2008-2009:  Member, AAG Healthy Departments Committee;  Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education (EDGE) in Geography steering committee

2009-2011:  Chair, Local Arrangements Committee for the 2011 AAG annual meeting;  co-organizer (with Ken Foote) of 2010 & 2011 Geography Faculty Development Alliance workshops and 2010 and 2011 AAG Department Leadership workshops.

2011:  Nominating Committee Chair, AAG

SERVICE AS JOURNAL REFEREE
Annals of the AAG:     1986, 1989 (2), 1994, 1996 (2)
Annals of Regional Science:     1990, 1992, 1994, 1997 (3)
The Canadian Geographer:     1995, 2000, 2001, 2002
Canadian Journal of Regional Science:     1991, 1992 (2)
Economic Development Quarterly:     1994
Economic Geography:     1988 - 2007 (24)
Entrepreneurship and Regional Development:      2000
Environment and Planning A:     1989 - 2007 (8);   2009
Geoforum:  2010, 2011
Geografiska Annaler:      2001
Geographical Analysis:     1994
GeoJournal:  2010, 2011
Growth and Change:     1987 - 2007 (11)
The Industrial Geographer:      2004
International Regional Science Review:     1987, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2006, 2007
Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis:      2000
Journal of Geography in Higher Education:      2002
Journal of Regional Science:      1999
Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services:      1999
New Zealand Geographical Society, Proceedings:      2003
Ontario Geography:     1993
Papers of the Regional Science Association:     1987, 1989
Papers in Regional Science:     1990, 1992, 1993 (2), 1998 (3), 2001, 2003
Policy Studies Journal:     1996
Tidschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie:  2008
The Professional Geographer:     1986- 2007 (12)
Regional Studies:     1986, 1987, 1992, 2008
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography:     2003, 2004
Southeastern Geographer:     1993
Urban Geography:     1990, 2000, 2004
Urban Studies:      1998, 2006

GRANT APPLICATIONS REVIEWED
HK Research Grants Council:  2009
UK Economic & Social Research Council:  2009
US National Science Foundation: 1987 - 2000 (86), 2001 (3), 2003 (1), 2005 (1), 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011

BOOK PROPOSALS REVIEWED
Oxford University Press: 1988
Routledge:  2009 (2)
Sage:  2007
Unwin Hyman: 1990
Wiley:  2006

SCIENTIFIC PANELS
1989-1990:  Member, National Science Foundation dissertation improvement grant panel.
1992-1994:  Panelist, National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program (Political Science, International Relations, Geography and Planning).
1993-1995:  Member, National Academy of Sciences panel, "Rediscovering Geography"
1993-1994:  Panelist, National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science program.
1997-1999:  Oversight panel for Geographies of the Information Society, Project Varenius of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis
1999:            Panelist, National Science Foundation, Social and Behavioral Sciences infrastructural proposals
2003:            Ad hoc strategic planning panel, National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science program
1999-2006:   Advisory Board for SUNY-Buffalo interdisciplinary doctoral program in Geographic Information Science
2006:            Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences.
2009:            Committee of Visitors, National Science Foundation division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (led the Geography & Spatial Sciences review team)

Harrington, J.W. and Lombard, J. 1988. Growth, Location, and Economic Role of Producer Services in Western New York. Faculty of Social Sciences Discussion Paper No. 1, University at Buffalo.

Harrington, J.W. 1989. Trade in Services Between the US and Canada: Status and Prospects. Canada-United States Trade Center Occasional Paper No. 2, University at Buffalo.

Harrington, J.W. 1991. North American Commercial Banking In a Time Change. Canada-United States Trade Center Occasional Paper No. 5, University at Buffalo.

Harrington, J.W. 1991. Competitiveness: Information and Intermediate Services. Canada-United States Trade Center Occasional Paper No. 11, University at Buffalo.

Lentnek, B., MacPherson, A.D., and Harrington, J.W. 1992. Towards a Location Theory for Knowledge-Based Producer Services. Working Paper 92:16, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University.

Harrington, J.W. 1992. U.S. Banking Changes and Local Economic Development. Working Paper 92:17, The Institute of Public Policy, George Mason University.

Geographers Network on Politics in America. 1995. Geographic Perspectives on Governmental Restructuring: A Conceptual Framework and Research Agenda. GNPA Working Paper No.1, distributed by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs, Princeton University.

Oakey, R. 1984. High Technology Small Firms. Reviewed in Environment and Planning A 17: 573-4 (1985).

King, L. J. 1984. Central Place Theory. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer 37: 507-8 (1985).

Haynes, K. E. and Fotheringham, A. S. 1984. Gravity and Spatial Interaction Models. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer 37: 507-8 (1985).

Webber, M. J. 1984. Industrial Location. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer 37: 507-8 (1985).

Hall, P. and Markusen, A., eds. 1985. Silicon Landscapes. Reviewed in The Professional Geographer 38: 209 (1986).

Castells, M., ed. 1985. High Technology, Space, and Society. Reviewed in Urban Geography.

Gappert, Gary, ed. 1987. The Future of Winter Cities. Reviewed in Journal of Regional Science.

Poniachek, H. A. 1986. Direct Foreign Investment in the United States. Reviewed in Environment and Planning A 21(2): 278-9 (1989).

Hamilton, F. E. I., ed. 1987. Industrial Change in Advanced Economics. Reviewed in Economic Geography, 64(4): 386-388 (1988).

Dear, M. J., Drake, J. J., and Reeds, L. G., eds. 1987. Steel City: Hamilton and Region. Reviewed in The American Review of Canadian Studies, 18(4): 484-7 (1988).

Benko, G., and Dunford, M., eds. 1991. Industrial Change and Regional Development. Reviewed in Growth and Change, 23(2): 268-9 (1992).

Dicken, P. 1993. Global Shift, rev. ed. Reviewed in Research and Exploration.

Porteous, D.J. 1995. The Geography of Finance. Reviewed in Growth and Change 29(4): 380-1.

EDITORIAL BOARDS
Annals of the Association of American Geographers: 1997-2000
Canadian Journal of Regional Science: 1990-1993
Economic Geography: 1991-2008
The Industrial Geographer:  2006-09
The Professional Geographer: 1991-1994

1986     Research Development Foundation of SUNY grant, "The Role of New York's Foreign-Owned Companies in Regional Development," (James E. McConnell, collaborator), $2,680.

1987     "Local-Labor-Market Impact of Semiconductor Device Manufacture," National Science Foundation. Grant No. SES-8618274, $38,222.

1988     SUNY Nuala McGann Drescher Affirmative Action Leave Award, $12,400.

1998     UW Course Development Award, $9,765.

2001    "Geographies of Occupational Attainment," National Science Foundation.  Grant BCS-0110497, $130,000 (three years).

2003    Canadian Studies Course Development Award, $5,500.

2008   Co-PI on proposal pending at National Science Foundation, "Diseeminating Research-Informed Practices for Enhancing Departments and Graduate Education in Geography."
 

SCHOLARLY PRESENTATIONS
"Pattern or Process: What is the Goal of Geographic Research?" Department of Geography colloquium panel, University at Buffalo, September, 1984.
"Corporate Strategy, Business Strategy, and Activity Location." Seminar, Urban and Regional Section, Energy Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, October, 1984.
"Intraindustry Development and Locational Adjustment." Department of Geography colloquium, Syracuse University, November, 1984.
"The Role of Business Strategy in Industrial Location and Regional Development." Lecture sponsored by the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, January, 1987.
"Methodological Issues in Human Geography." Seminar at the Department of Geography at the University of North Carolina, January, 1987.
"Business Strategies and the Local Economy." Delany Lecture, West Virginia University, March, 1987.
"Foreign Trade and Investment in a Border Region." Joint seminar, Regional Research Institute, West Virginia University, March, 1987.
"Business Strategy, Industrial Location, and Regional Development." American-Bulgarian Seminar on Regional Economic Development and Environmental Management. West Virginia University, October, 1987.
"Business Strategy Motivations for Foreign Direct Investment in the US." Colloquium given at the Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, January, 1988.
"Canadian FDI in New York State." Colloquium given at the Department of Geography, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, February, 1988.
"Foreign Direct Investment in New York State." Colloquium given at the Department of Geography, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, March, 1988.
"Old Views, New Horizons, and Fine Grains on the Erie Waterfront." Department of Geography colloquium, University at Buffalo, April, 1989.
"Environmental Change, Corporate Adjustment, and Local Economies." Department of Geography colloquium, University of Washington, May, 1990.
"Banking on Change." Department of Geography colloquium, Kent State University, October, 1991.
"Trade and Competitiveness: New Trends, New Theories, and Their Relevance to Local Regions." Colloquium, College of Urban and Public Affairs, University of New Orleans, November, 1991.
"Understanding Regional Economic Development." Leadership Fairfax program, Fairfax, VA, January, 1992.
"Producer Services and Regional Economic Development." Evening lecture, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Maryland at College Park, April, 1992.
"U.S. Banking Changes and Local Economic Development." Presented at Economic Research Service workshop on Rural America and The Changing Structure of Manufacturing, US Department of Commerce, September, 1992.
"The Global Debt Crisis: The New Geography of Money." Panel at plenary session of the 27th International Geographical Congress, Washington, DC, July, 1992.
"A Finer Look at Emerging Economic Regions," Nonprofits in Travel conference, Arlington, VA, February 1993".
"Service-Sector Approaches to Economic Development." Paper presented at "New Directions in Economic Development" conference, Center for Innovative Technologies, Herndon, Virginia, 12 February 1993.
"NAFTA: Changing Economic Geography and Regional Development," presented at West Chester University, April 1994.
"Suburbanization of Producer-Service Employment," presented at Syracuse University, November 1996.
"Rediscovering Geography: New Relevance for Science and Society," presented at University of Washington, 10 October 1997.
"Labor Processes in Regional Economic Development," presented at University of British Columbia, 28 October 1998.
"Studying Places by Studying Occupations," presented at University of Washington, Department of Planning, 5 May 1999
"Occupational Training: An Institutional Approach," presented at University of Washington, Department of Geography, 7 Dec 2001.
"Creating Capable Workforces," keynote address as the Harriet Elliot lecturer, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, 31 March 2004.
"Race, Gender, Jobs," presented at Hong Kong Baptist University, 8 December 2005.
"Sustaining Regional Advantage," presented at Hong Kong University, 1 December 2005;  Central University of Finance and Law (Wuhan, China), 12 December 2005;  Peking University, 19 December 2005;  Beijing Normal University, 20 December 2005.
"Workforce Development: Strengthening Regional Assets," presented at University of Minnesota-Duluth, March 2006.
 

OTHER  PRESENTATIONS
"Becoming..."  Keynote address, Early Identification Program spring conference, University of Washington, 20 May 1998.
"On Leadership," keynote address, Gamma Beta chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon (Geography honor society), Central Washington University, 20 May 2005.
"Can Regions Learn?" presented at the Monday Club, Seattle, 30 October 2006.
"Advancing Faculty Voice in Higher Education Policy," presented at the UW Department of Geography, 13 April 2007 and at the UW Catalysts, 14 May 2007.
"China's Cities: Citadels of Contradiction," presented  to the Olympia (WA) Economics Club, 12 March 2009.
(with Charles Kauffman) "Learning from Seattle's Entrepreneurial History," presented at the Monday Club, 22 February 2010.

1983-91     Member, Schools and Scholarships Committee:  Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Western New York.
1984-90     Member, Board of Directors,: H-R Club of WNY.
1985-89     Secretary and Chair, Music Committee:  Unitarian Universalist Church of Buffalo (New York).
1987-91     Member and Secretary:  City of Buffalo Environmental Management Commission.
1988-90     Vice-President and Secretary:  H-R Club of WNY.
1989-91     Member, Horizons Waterfront Commission (Buffalo Common Council Appointee); member, public-involvement task force (1989); member, consultant-selection committee; member, Committee on Organization and Procedures.
1992             Group-process facilitator, National Capital Region Leadership Retreat, organized by Washington Board of Trade.
1993-96         Board member:  Unitarian-Universalist Church in Reston (Virginia).
1995-96         Board President:   Unitarian-Universalist Church in Reston.
1997             Annual Pledge Drive Chair:  Unitarian-Universalist Church in Reston
2002-            Member, Schools and Scholarships Committee:  Harvard-Radcliffe Club of Western Washington
2002-04        Church-school teacher (2nd & 3rd grade), Committee on Ministry member, pledge drive committee, and occasional soloist,: University Unitarian Church, Seattle.
2004             Presentation to minority students, Renton H.S., under auspices of UW Breakfast Club
2005-07        Leadership Development Committee (chair) ;  Ministerial Sabbatical Committee;  occasional vocal soloist:  University Unitarian Church, Seattle
2007-10       Board member:  Pacific Northwest District of the Unitarian-Universalist Association;  Board secretary, 2008-10