Jeffrey Roet, Ph.D.

Education

State University of New York at Buffalo, BA in Geography
Northwestern University, MA in Geography
Northwestern University, Ph.D. in Geography

Courses Taught

World Regional Geography
World Regional Geography (Honors)
Human Geography
Geography of the United States
Geography of Western Europe
Urban Geography
Cultural Geography
Geography of Religion

Areas of Focus

Urban Geography
Cultural Geography
Historical Geography

A Short Biography

Jeff Roet received his B.A. in geography from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University.  He has been at TCU since 1999.  Dr. Jeff, as his students call him, and his wife, Jeanette Rice (also a geographer), came to Texas 36 years ago, supposedly for one year, and have been Texans ever since.

Dr. Jeff has traveled to 47 countries on all continents except Antarctica.  He spent a year traveling through India at the age of nineteen and on the same trip visited Nepal, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Greece.  It was after this epic journey upon his return the United States that Dr. Jeff decided to take up the academic subject of geography, although he now knows that he was born a geographer, and sometimes brags that he could read a map, turned upside down (the map that is), at the age of eight. 

A member of the Association of American Geographers, he has done work in urban, political, economic, and urban geography.  Dr. Jeff’s latest interest is the historical geography of religion, and is focused on the ritual-based relationships between men and women due to environmental degradation and the need for migration decision-making by nomadic hunter and gatherer clans in Paleolithic times. 

Dr. Jeff wishes you to know that his profession is geography, his hobby is geography, he married a geographer, his daughter is a honorary geographer, and he receives map and globe motif gifts on his birthday and holidays from friends and family, usually covered in map-style wrapping paper.  He perhaps wishes for more customary presents, but would change nothing else.