
Dawn S. BowenUniversity of Mary Washington | UMW · Department of Geography
Dawn S. Bowen
PhD
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Introduction
Dawn S. Bowen works at the Department of Geography, University of Mary Washington. Dawn does research in ethnic geography, place-making and attachment, and heritage tourism. Her most recent publication is "In the shadow of the refinery: an American oil company town on the Caribbean island of Aruba."
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August 1996 - present
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In 1940 the governments of Saskatchewan and British Columbia combined with the Canadian National Railway to move twenty-five impoverished Old Colony families from Mennonite reserves in Saskatchewan to new homes near the Cheslatta River, south of Burns Lake. Other families followed in the next few years. Government and railroad documents, supplement...
American industries created company towns across the United States, and in the late nineteenth century, their usage spread into Latin America and the Caribbean. Most company towns were designed for workers; the literature on company towns has tended to focus on these. However, some were specifically designed for expatriate managers and supervisors;...
Programs to keep young women in school across the developing world have become widespread. Education is key to improving their quality of life, but keeping them in school is a significant challenge. This article examines a scholarship program that provides 25 days of intensive leadership training for young indigenous women using a peer tutorial sys...
In July, 1930, Isaiah Bowman first journeyed into the region which he termed “Jordan Country.” Most of that territory was located in eastern Montana, particularly Garfield County. Like other geographers, Bowman called attention to the fact that this was, in fact, a frontier region, a place where homesteaders were establishing claims in a place whic...
Soil erosion threatens long-term soil fertility and food production in Q’eqchi’ communities native to the Sierra Yalijux and Sierra Sacranix mountain ranges in the central highlands of Guatemala. Environmental factors such as steep topography, erodible soils, and intense precipitation events, combined with land subdivision and reduced fallow period...
Cloud forest in the Central Highlands of Guatemala provides important ecosystem services for the Q’eqchi’ Maya but has been disappearing at an increasing rate in recent decades. This research documents changes in cloud forest cover, explores some contributing factors to deforestation, and considers forest preservation and food security implications...
An examination of the origins of roadside gardens in Newfoundland's Northern Peninsula and their impacts on the landscape and local communities.
Since the early 1980s some 40,000 acres of forested land have been cleared and placed under cultivation by Mennonite farmers near the small town of La Crete in northern Alberta's Peace River district. This incipient agriculture has been accompanied by dramatic increases in road building and home construction and by the establishment of churches and...
Old Colony Mennonites have historically responded to the introduction of public education by moving to areas where there were no public schools. One such area was the northern Peace River country of Alberta. Old Colony Mennonites began moving here in the 1930s, and brought with them their distinct culture, which included private German-language sch...
The Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail (DRHT) is a controversial rails-to-trails development project on an abandoned right-of-way in King George County, Virginia. The Friends of the DRHT, an organization formed in the spring of 2006 to turn an idea into reality, has made remarkable progress since that time, clearing land, creating a trail head, marsh...
The Dahlgren Railroad Heritage Trail (DRHT) is a controversial rails-to-trails development project on an abandoned right-of-way in King George County, Virginia. The Friends of the DRHT, an organization formed in the spring of 2006 to turn an idea into reality, has made remarkable progress since that time, clearing land, creating a trail head, marsh...
Second Street, or "the Deuce," in Richmond's historic Jackson Ward neighborhood, was the focal point of African American commerce in the early part of the 20th century. Enterprises of all types clustered along this street, just north of Broad Street, Richmond's main thoroughfare and the center of White business activity. While some scholars have ar...
Migrations among the Mennonite people were historically undertaken in an attempt to secure religious freedom. Migrations are still being made by the most conservative Mennonite groups. This article briefly examines the process of migration in Mennonite history, and emphasizes the role of migration among one particular group, the Old Colony. A Menno...
In 1977, Jimmy Buffett, a popular singer-songwriter, released a song entitled "Margaritaville." Since then, people of every description have traveled vicariously through Buffett's music looking for the place that he called Margaritaville. But where exactly is this place, and why do Buffett fans believe that finding Margaritaville is a worthwhile ob...
Carl Sauer has received a great deal of attention by those geographers who respect and admire him as one of the great contributors to modern American geography, and by a younger generation who believe that too much emphasis on Sauer and his form of cultural geography has restricted the growth and development of this particular subfield. Rather than...