Dr. William Crowley
Professor
crowleyw@sonoma.edu
Areas of Specialization
- Latin America —urban and cultural
- Wine Geography
- Urban Geography
- Cultural Geography
Educational Background
- Ph. D.—Geography, University of Oregon, 1972
- M.A.—Geography, University of Cincinnati, 1966
- B.A.—Geography, University of California, Riverside, 1964
Recent Courses
- Geog 203: Cultural Geography
- Geog 205: Introduction to Map Reading and Interpretation
- Geog 311: Geography of Wine
- Geog 350: Urban Geography
- Geog 392: Latin America: Culture and Environment
Recent Publications
“Chile’s Wine Industry: Historical Character and Changing Geography,” Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers Yearbook 2000, 26 (2000): 87-101
“Was Fenneman Right About Regional Geography?” invited paper that formed part of the APCG President’s Plenary Session, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Yearbook, 61 (1999): 175-192.
“Modeling the Latin American City,” Geographical Review 88 (1) (1998): 127-130 (actually published 1/1999).
“Order and Disorder: A Model of Latin American Urban Land Use,” Yearbook, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 57 (1995), 9-31.
Recent Papers
"Environmental and Land Use Issues for the California Wine Industry," Association of American Geographers March 2004, Philadelphia, PA
“Moving up Stairs,” Association of American Geographers, March 2002, New Orleans, LA
"Issues and Trends in the California Wine Industry," California Geographical Society, May 2001, Stockton, CA
"The California Wine Industry: Lodification and Growth Controls," Association of American Geographers, April 2000, Pittsburgh, PA
"Revival Amidst Industrial Decay: the Survival of the Argentinian Wine Industry," Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, January 2000, Austin, TX
In My Own Words
Bill Crowley is a cultural geographer whose interests focus on two very different fields: 1) wine industry themes, particularly the diffusion of the Wine Revolution and secondarily the formation of wine appellations; and 2) land use in urban Latin America and its contrasts with U.S. cities.
Additionally, he follows landscape and land use issues in San Francisco and the Bay Area and enjoys leading students on field trips there and elsewhere in Northern California.
He is an active member in the Association of American Geographers, the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers and the Conference of Latinamericanist Geographers, as well as a committed member of the California Geographical Society and the American Geographical Society.