Research Interests
Cultural geography, urban geography, cultural cartography, sense of place, urban landscapes, public space in the city, place-based branding/marketing, geographies of graffiti and murals, place-based identities and sport, nationalism
Hunter Shobe is a cultural geographer and professor at Portland State University. He holds a PhD in Geography from the University of Oregon and has over 15 years of experience researching the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of how people connect to places and environments. With colleague David Banis, Hunter has published two books: Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas, and Upper Left Cities: A Cultural Atlas of San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Both books explore the diverse ways that cartographers can tell stories with maps.
Courses Taught
- GEOG 230 Environment and Society: Global Perspectives
- GEOG 331 Geography of Globalization/Economic Geography
- GEOG 332 Urban Geography
- GEOG 346 World Population and Food Supply
- GEOG 354 Geography of Europe
- GEOG 399 Graffiti Field Course
- GEOG 399 Portland Neighborhoods Field Course
- GEOG 399 Public Space Field Course
- GEOG 399 Urban Landscape: Symbols, Brands and Codes Field Course
- GEOG 4/510 Geography of Popular Culture
- GEOG 4/510 Urban Agriculture
- GEOG 521 Geographic Thought
- GEOG 4/525 Field Methods in Human Geography
- GEOG 4/530 Cultural Geography
- GEOG 4/532 Urban Landscapes
- GEOG 4/562 Sense of Place
Recent Publications, Presentations and Media
- March 2, 2016 David Banis and Hunter Shobe gave an invited talk at the University of Oregon Library Faculty Forum about their book Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas.
- November 30, 2015 David Banis and Hunter Shobe appeared on the OPB program Think Out Loud discussing Portland in Maps
- October 28, 2015 - David Banis and Hunter Shobe gave a Portland State of Mind talk about the making of their book Portlandness: A Cultural Atlas.
- October 23, 2015 - Hunter Shobe was one of five presenters at PDXTalks, a signature event for Portland State of Mind.
- Hunter Shobe and Geoff Gibson (August 2015)."Cascadia rising: Soccer, region, and identity" in Soccer and Society."
- Shobe, H. and Banis, D. (2014) Zero Graffiti for a Beautiful City: The Cultural Politics of Urban Space in San Francisco Urban Geography 35:4, 586-607