Anne Buttimer#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1335 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HUMAN MOBILITY, GOVERNANCE, ENVIRONMENT AND SPACE |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
Anne Buttimer passed away July 15, 2017.
Positions Held
- Emeritus Professor of Geography, University College Dublin since 2003
Fields of Scholarship
- History and philosophy of science, with special focus on geographical thought and practice
- Empirical studies on the human experience of place, space and movement
- Interactions of science and policy
Honours and Awards
- 1965 - 1966 Post-doctoral fellowship from the Belgian American Educational Foundation
- 1976 Fulbright-Hays Visiting Professor in Social Ecology to Sweden
- 1986 Association of American Geographers Honors Award
- 1990 Honours Award, Taiwan Geographical Society
- 1991 Ellen Churchill Semple Award, University of Kentucky
- 1997 Royal Geographical Society (UK) Murchison Award
- 2000 Royal Scottish Geographical Society Millenium Award
- 2001 Membre D'Honneur, Sociéte de Géographie
- 2006 Socio D'onore Societá Geografica, Italiana
- Doctor, honoris causa, University of Joensuu, 1999; Doctor honoris causa, Tartu University 2004
- Fellow of Royal Irish Academy, Royal Geographical Society (UK) and Academia Europaea
- 2013 Gold Medal of the CNRS
- 2014 AAG Lifetime Achievement Honors
- 2016 UCC alumni award
