James W. Fonseca is Dean Emeritus and a former Professor of Geography at Ohio University Zanesville. He was the Dean at Ohio University – Zanesville from 1998 to 2011 and then Executive Dean of Regional Higher Education until 2013.
Prior to coming to Ohio Jim Fonseca spent more than 20 years as an administrator and Professor of Geography at George Mason University where he held a number of administrative positions including Associate and Acting Dean of the Graduate School and Founding Director of the University’s Prince William Campus in Manassas.
Jim graduated from Bridgewater State University and then earned his Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in Massachusetts.
His publications (co-authored with Alice Andrews) include the Atlas of American Higher Education, 1993 and the Atlas of American Society, 1995 published by New York University Press, and World Regional Map Skills: Student Supplement to de Blij’s Geography: Regions and Concepts published by John Wiley, 1981. He also wrote The Urban Rank-Size Hierarchy: A Mathematical Interpretation, Monograph #8 published by the Institute of Mathematical Geography, Ann Arbor, 1989. His book Making History; Creating a Landscape: The Portuguese American Community of Southeastern New England was published on Amazon’s CreateSpace in 2018.
Jim lives in Florida with his wife Elaine. They have a son, Jim, who lives in Chicago.
Other publications:
The Geography of Virginia: Nine Regions