This Web Page
About five years ago I felt compelled to build a web site. Inspired to action by my wife, I bought jeffreylash.com, purchased a hosting package from Go Daddy, and began playing with Dreamweaver.
In May 2009, after being selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Serbia, I decided to jump into the proverbial deep end by rebuilding the site using WordPress. After much browsing, I settled on a theme named Atahulpa designed by the German company BytesForAll. Customizing the theme has proved both rewarding (“Oh cool! The banner image changes every thirty seconds.”) and frustrating (“What’s the difference between a ‘plug-in’ and a ‘widget’ and how do I set them up?). I’m lucky to have a CSS savvy spouse.
For the 2009-2010 academic year, my goal is to post multimedia content that not only documents my experience as a professor at the University of Belgrade but also reflects the geography of Serbia.
My Academic Career
In 1992, I earned a B.A. in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin. I then studied in San Francisco at Transworld Teachers and received a certificate to teach English as a Second Language and did so in San Jose, Costa Rica. In 1994, I began my graduate career at Texas State University at San Marcos. I earned a masters degree in geography education in 1996 then took a leave of absence, moved to Morocco and taught geography at Al Akhawayn University. I returned to Texas State in 1997 and completed a Doctor of Philosophy in Geography in 2001. My dissertation was entitled Exporting Education: The Case of the American University in Cairo. Currently, I am the Geography Program Chair and an Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Houston-Clear Lake. I teach a wide variety of courses and continue to conduct research locally and internationally on human development through education.
My Curriculum Vitae.