Professor of Geography
Office: North Hall 085
(616) 526-7053
jbascom@calvin.edu
Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Iowa (1989). His work experience includes an internship with the Africa Bureau of the US Agency for International Development. Invited entries of his are found in the Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa and the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Dr. Bascom has written on a pedagogical approach to teaching Third World geography. Agencies that have supported his research include the American Philosophical Society, the US Agency for International Development, National Science Foundation, and the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program. He is currently working on the first collegiate-level geography of Eritrea. Dr. Bascom's teaching assignments include the Geography of Africa, Economic Geography, Cartography, and World Regional Geography.