 Mary
Caravelis
Visiting Professor, Geography and
Political Science Phone: 305-899-4570
Fax: 305-899-3385
E-mail: mcaravelis@mail.barry.edu
Office: O'Laughlin Hall, 247
Mary Caravelis, visiting instructor of Geography
and Political Science, was born in Greece and has been a resident
of South Florida since 1981. She earned her BA in Geography as well
as her first MA in Geography and second MA in Political Science
from Florida Atlantic University. She is currently active in completing
her Doctoral Dissertation and researching the cultural and geographic
impact of the Greeks in Florida. Before coming to Barry University
she taught courses in Geography and Political Science at Florida
Atlantic University and Broward Community College. Her fields of
research and teaching interests are centered around the ethnic geography
of the United States and Europe and the urban political geography
of Florida.
Courses Currently Taught:
American Government, International Relations,
Public Policy and Administration, World Geography, Political Geography,
Geography of Europe, Geography of Latin America, United States Geography,
Geography of Disasters.
Awards:
1996 Aileen D. Maale Award for Excellence in Graduate
Research from Florida
Atlantic University. Award given for original research based on
foreign field
work in Greece
Research:
Publications
The Transformation of a Mining Community: A Case
Study of Sotiras, Thasos, Greece, with Russell L. Ivy, forthcoming
February 2001, in European Planning Studies.
Transnational Flows: Domestic Impacts: The Miami
Experience, (forthcoming) to be published by Peter Lang Publishers
and to be edited by Elzbieta H. Oleksy, Department of American Studies,
University of Lotz, Lotz, Poland.
Presentations
Globalization and the Changing Nature of Immigration,
presented at the International Conference of the Department of American
Studies and Mass Media & Polish-U.S. Fulbright Commission at
Lotz Poland, 2001
Not In My Back Yard: The Contested Location Of
The Homeless Shelter In Fort Lauderdale, Florida, presented at the
annual meeting of the Florida Society of Geographers, Tampa, FL.
1997
The Transformation of a Mining Community: A Case
Study of Sotiras, Thasos, Greece, presented at the annual meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, NC. 1996
The Greek Community of Broward County: Its
Origins and its Growth, presented at the annual meeting of the Florida
Society of Geographers, Tallahassee, FL. 1996
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