Associate Professor Emeritus
Focus Areas
Areas of Specialization
- Economic Geography, Regional Development, Impact Assessment, Spatial Statistics and Econometric Modeling,
- Real Estate Price Valuation,
- Quantitative Methods
- Urban Systems
- Music Geography
Educational Background
- PhD in Geography & Regional Development, University of Arizona, 1989
- M.A. in Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1986
- B.A. in Geography & Economics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 1980
Courses Taught
- GEO 2426 Pop Music/Culture
- GEO 2500 Global/Regional/Economies
- GEO 3162C Introduction to Quantitative Analysis
- GEO 4167C Intermediate Quantitative Analysis
Recent Publications
Merz, L., Pienaar, E. F., Fik, T., Muyengwa, S., & Child, B. (2023). Wildlife institutions highly salient to human attitudes toward wildlife. Conservation Science and Practice, 5(2), e12879.
Yang, Y., Fik, T. J., & Altschuler, B. (2018). Explaining regional economic multipliers of tourism: does cross-regional heterogeneity exist?. Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research, 23(1), 15-23.
Adhikari, S., Fik, T., & Dwivedi, P. (2017). Proximate causes of land-use and land-cover change in Bannerghatta National Park: A spatial statistical model. Forests, 8(9), 342.
Yang, Y., Fik, T. J., & Zhang, H. L. (2017). Designing a tourism spillover index based on multidestination travel: A two-stage distance-based modeling approach. Journal of Travel Research, 56(3), 317-333.