Malcolm Comeaux
Professor Emeritus,
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning
Other ASU affiliations
Emeritus Professor,
Emeritus College
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Phone: 480-965-7533
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SCHWADA CLASSRM OFC BLDNG TEMPE, AZ 85287
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Long Bio
Malcolm Comeaux is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Arizona State University. He is also the founder and a long-time leader of the Arizona Geographic Alliance, a K-12 education outreach initiative for teachers and students supported in part by grants from National Geographic. Comeaux's many specialties include the geography of Arizona and the American Southwest, cultural diffusion and change, historical geography, the geography of Europe, the history of geographic thought, the French of Louisiana, and geographic education. A gifted field instructor and storyteller, Malcolm is the author of "Arizona: A Geography" and "Atchafalaya Swamp Life: Settlement and Folk Occupations."
Education
- Ph.D. Geography, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 1969
- M.A. Geography, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale 1966
- B.A. University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) 1963
