Collection inventory

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John Western Papers

An inventory of his papers at the Syracuse University Archives

Finding aid created by: Nicole Wright
Date: August 2019

Revision history:

Biography

John Western was a Maxwell Professor of Teaching Excellence, Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence, and Robert D. McClure Professor of Teaching Excellence at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He earned his bachelor's degree at Oxford in 1968, his master's at Western Ontario in 1972, and his PhD at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1978. In 2003 he was awarded Distinguished Teaching Honors by the American Association of Geographers. Western retired in 2019.

Before his appointment at Syracuse University, Western lived in South Africa in the mid to late 1970s where he conducted interview-based research for his book Outcast Cape Town (1981). From 1977 to 1978 he was a Visiting Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, and from 1978 to 1984 he was Assistant Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia. Western began his time at Syracuse University in 1984 as an associate professor and became a professor in 1994. He was Resident Director of Syracuse University Abroad's program in Strasbourg, France from 1997 to 2000.

Some of Western's notable publications include two full length articles in The Annals of the Association of American Geographers and The Geographical Review, and the books A Passage to England (1992), Cosmopolitan Europe: A Strasbourg Self-Portrait (2016), and Outcast Cape Town (1981), the second edition of which was featured in Progress in Human Geography's "Classics Revisited" series in 1999.

Scope and Content Note

The John Western Papers primarily contain course readers complied by Western for classes he taught at Syracuse University. Also included in the papers are letters of recommendation written by or about John Western, course descriptions, and other materials related to his time teaching at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from the Syracuse University Archives and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Committee records are restricted for 50 years from date of creation. Requests to use restricted materials must be obtained in writing from the office of origin.

Related Material

Among the papers, clippings were moved to the Clipping Files.

The University Archives holds a clipping file and a portrait file on John Western.

Selected Search Terms

Names

Western, John.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.

Subjects

Geography and environment research.
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Department of Geography.
College teachers.
Higher education.

Types of Material

Letters of recommendation.
Readers.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

John Western Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

John Western donated his papers to the University Archives in 2019.

Processing Information

Materials were rehoused in acid free folders and boxes.

Arrangement

Folders are arranged alphabetically.

Table of Contents

Papers

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