Bio 

 Dr. Jerry T. Mitchell is Department Chair and a Professor of Geography. He has been the Director of the Center of Excellence for Geographic Education since joining the department in 2004. He has authored more than seventy-five articles and book chapters, with work appearing in the journals Natural Hazards Review, Cartography and GIS, The Geography Teacher, and the Annals of the American Association of Geographers. This work was made possible by more than $5 million in external funding from the National Science Foundation, Verizon Foundation, National Geographic Society, the South Carolina Department of Education, and others. He was the coordinator of the South Carolina Geographic Alliance for 17 years, providing geography learning opportunities for more than 40,000 teachers and students. Additionally, he served as the Editor of the Journal of Geography from 2010–2019, was President of the National Council for Geographic Education in 2020, and was awarded the 2022 Gilbert H. Grosvenor Honors in Geographic Education from the American Association of Geographers and the 2024 George J Miller Award for Distinguished Service to Geographic Education from the National Council for Geographic Education.

Research 

• Environmental hazards
• Geography education
• Latin America
  
  

Teaching 

GEOG 221: Geography of South Carolina
GEOG 223: Geography of Latin America
GEOG 223M: Geography of Latin America (Chile – Study Abroad)
GEOG 561: Contemporary Issues in Geography Education
GEOG 710: Seminar in Geography Education

Representative Publications 

 Mitchell, J. T. 2025. “Ensinando o meio ambiente na geografia escolar: Uma visão dos Estados Unidos [Teaching the Environment in School Geography: A view from the United States.]” Revista Geousp: Espaço e tempo. 29(1).

Mitchell, J. T. 2025. “Representing Place in the Music Lyrics of Australia’s Midnight Oil.” Journal of Cultural Geography. 1-22.

Bednarz, S. and J. T. Mitchell (Eds.). 2024. Handbook of Geography Education. Cham, Switzerland: Springer Nature Switzerland AG. 961 pp.

Mitchell, J. T. 2023. “Wicked from the Start: Educational Impediments to Teaching About Climate Change (and How Geography Education Can Help). Education Sciences. 13, 1174. DOI: 10.3390/educsci13121174.