J. Clark Archer

Long time professor of geography in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He especially enjoys writing about elections and his atlases of American politics and elections have earned special recognition by the Association of American Publishers and the Association of College and Research Libraries.

Places Lived

Bloomington, IN
Iowa City, IA
Norman, OK
Hanover, NH
St. Louis, MO
Lincoln, NE

Author Of

Nonfiction

Keywords

Geography; Elections; Politics

Education

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, 1964, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Master of Arts in Geography, 1968, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Ph.D. in Geography, 1974, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Occupation

Professor of Geography
Author

Places Worked

University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE

Honors

Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 by the Association of College and Research Libraries for Atlas of American Politics, 1960-2000.
Best Single-Volume Reference in Humanities & Social Sciences for 2006 by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the Association of American Publishers for Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1788-2004.

Associations

Association of American Geographers
National Council for Geographic Education

Bibliography

Section and Party: Political Geography of American Presidential Elections, from Andrew Jackson to Ronald Reagan. 1981.
American Electoral Mosaics. 1986.
Political Geography of the United States. 1996.
Atlas of American Politics, 1960-2000. 2001.
Historical Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections, 1788-2004. 2006.
Atlas of the 2008 Elections. 2011.
Atlas of the Great Plains. 2011. (with Fred M. Shelley and Stephen J. Lavin)
Atlas of the 2012 Elections. 2014.
Atlas of Nebraska. 2017 (with Richard Edwards, Leslie M. Howard, Fred M. Shelley, Donald A. Wilhite, and David J. Wishart)

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