Mark de Socio

Assistant Professor

PhD, University of Cincinnati

Department of Geography & Geosciences

Salisbury University

1101 Camden Avenue

Salisbury, Maryland 21801

+1 410 543 6461 (Tel)

mxdesocio@salisbury.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Welcome!

I joined Salisbury University in August 2008 after previously holding positions at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, and the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. A native of Baltimore, I am happy to be back in the land of the Chesapeake, blue crabs and the O’s, and living “downy o-shun” on the Eastern Shore.

I am an economic, urban and political geographer, meaning that I study the economic and political forces that shape, and are shaped by, the physical and social landscapes of urban and rural areas. My research focuses on the networks of business and social leaders who are actively engaged in shaping our urban and rural landscapes through either policy-making or economic activities, or both. These networks are very dynamic; the compositions of such networks are marked by local economic genealogy, the dynamism of global capitalist competition, and attendant social changes.

My teaching duties at Salisbury include Economic Geography, Political Geography, Regional Economic Development, and World Geography: Africa and the Americas.