Mark de Socio
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
Office: 157-G Henson
Telephone: +1 410 543 6461
Fax: +1 410 548 4506
Email:
mxdesocio@salisbury.edu
About
Dr. Mark de Socio is Associate
Professor of Geography at Salisbury University. He studies economic and
political forces that shape, and are shaped by, the physical and social
landscapes of urban and rural areas. His research focuses on networks of
business and social leaders who actively shape urban and rural landscapes
through economic activities, policy-making, or both. Such networks are very
dynamic; the compositions of these networks are marked by local economic
genealogy, the dynamism of global capitalist competition, and attendant social
changes. Current research projects include an exploration of business and social
networks shaping the electoral geographies of state-level officeholders in the
United States; the rise of universities and hospitals as engines of local and
regional economic development; and the geopolitics of the federal J-1 Summer
Work Travel Program in Ocean City, Maryland. He has published research in
various academic journals including
Antipode, Regional Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, and
Growth & Change. He currently serves
as President of the Middle Atlantic Division of the Association of American
Geographers (MAD-AAG) and on the editorial boards of
The Professional Geographer and
The Arab World
Geographer.
He received his Ph.D.
(Geography) from the University of Cincinnati, M.S. (Geography) from the
University of Alabama, and B.S. (Political Science) from Towson University. He
previously taught at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and at the
University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. His teaching duties at Salisbury include
Economic Geography, Political Geography,
Regional Economic Development, and
World Geography: Africa and the Americas.
Publications
2013 Macpherson BD and de Socio M.
Gasoline station morphology on Virginia's Eastern Shore.
Southeastern Geographer 53(1): 5-27.
2012 de Socio M.
Regime network restructuring in Akron, Ohio,
1975-2009: A longitudinal social
network
analysis.
Growth and Change 43(1): 27-55.
2010 de Socio M. Geographers
mobilize: A network-diffusion analysis of the campaign to free Ghazi-Walid
Falah.
Antipode 42(2): 310-335. (Reprinted with copyright permissions
in The Arab World Geographer, Vol. 11, No.
4, pp.
195-217)
2010
de Socio M.
Marginalization of sunset firms in
regime coalitions: A social network analysis.
Regional Studies
44(2): 167-182.
2010
de Socio M.
'Taylor, Peter', p. 2278 in Warf B
(ed.), Encyclopedia of Geography. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2010
de Socio M.
'Urban and regional development', pp.
2916-2921 in Warf B (ed.),
Encyclopedia of Geography.
Thousand
Oaks, CA: Sage.
2008 Gokmen M, de Socio M,
and Falah G-W. Geopolitics from below: Student perceptions of
contemporary US-
Turkey
relations.
The Arab World Geographer 11(1-2): 18-46.
2008 Gokmen M, de Socio M,
and Falah G-W. Geopolitics from above: A review of bilateral US-Turkey
relations,
1947-2006.
The Arab World Geographer 11(1-2): 1-17.
2007
de Socio M.
Business community structures and
urban regimes: A comparative analysis.
Journal of Urban Affairs
29(4): 339-365.
2002
de Socio M and Allen C.
Irredentism in MexAmerica.
Military Review
82(5): 68-80.
Courses
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World Geography: Africa & the Americas (GEOG 102)
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Economic Geography (GEOG 203)
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Political Geography (GEOG 327)
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Regional Economic Development (GEOG 406)
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