For more than 20 years, Dr. Doolittle has been the Erich W. Zimmerman Regents Professor of Geography at The University of Texas at Austin.
AUSTIN, TX, May 12, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- William E. Doolittle has been included in Marquis Who's Who since 1996. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Doolittle has been the Erich W. Zimmerman Regents Professor of Geography at The University of Texas at Austin. With more than four decades of academic experience, he has taught a number of courses including Mexico and Caribbean America; the historical geography of American Southwest; Environment, Development and Food Production; and field techniques. Dr. Doolittle also regularly conducts research regarding the ancient development of water control technologies in arid lands, the evolution of agricultural landscapes, and the transfer of technology from Spain to México in the 1500s and its hybridization with indigenous technology.
Alongside his responsibilities as an educator, Dr. Doolittle has found further success as the author of four books including 1990's Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico: The Sequence of Technological Change, 2000's Cultivated Landscapes of Native North America, and 2004's The Safford Valley Grids: Prehistoric Cultivation in the Southern Arizona Desert. He also penned more than 100 scholarly articles and book chapters, and served on the editorial board of several professional journals, including the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Cultural Geography, and Geografía y Desarrollo (México). He was elected as the chairperson of the American Association of Geographers' Southwest Division between 1995 and 1997 after serving in this capacity for the board of directors of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers between 1992 and 1994. Dr. Doolittle has presented his research at seminars, workshops and conferences all over the world.
Many honors and awards have been bestowed on Dr. Doolittle including an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 2015, and being elected as Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2005. The American Association of Geographers awarded him Distinguished Scholarship honors in 2006 and elected him as a Fellow in 2020. The Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers honored Dr. Doolittle with its Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award in 1994, and its Preston E. James Eminent Americanist Career Award in 2014. Dr. Doolittle attributes a great deal of his success to his insatiable curiosity, notable work ethic and the influence of an aunt who sparked his initial interest in arid lands, archaeology, and the Southwest by gifting him a poster featuring a group of Native Americans, and a book about searching for dinosaur bones in western China. In addition to his vast contributions to the advancement of his field, he is extremely proud of the success of his three sons.
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