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Geographer, California State University, Dominguez Hills

Ray currently teaches at CSU, Dominguez Hills. She was until recently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

She has an Honours degree in Geography from James Cook University (1972), a Masters degree in Geography from James Cook University (1975), and a PhD from the University of Queensland (1986). After teaching at Queensland University of Technology she moved to California in 1991, where she has taught at various California State Universities and Colleges.

Experience

  • 2018–2020
    Senior Research Fellow (Honorary)), University of Melbourne
  • 1996–2019
    Professor of Geography, Long Beach City College

Education

  • 1986 
    University of Queensland, PhD

Publications

  • 2020
    Guns, Gold, and Gums—Some Links Between the United States of America and Australia., Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 82, 115-132
  • 2019
    Encounters with Confluences, Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 81, 90-1112
  • 2016
    Combinatorial Creativity and the Australian Letters of Amalie Dietrich, Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers 78, 192-215
  • 2016
    Shadows on the landscape: an inquiry into the value of some Australian places, Geographical Research 54 (4), 377-390
  • 2005
    Tom Down Under: McKnight's relationship with the Fifth Continent, The California Geographer 45, 98-110
  • 1993
    A Woman in the Wilderness. The Story of Amalie Dietrich in Australia, New South Wales University Press
  • 1986
    Photographs of Aborigines of North-East Australia: A Collection of Early Queensland Aboriginal Photographs, Made by Amalie Dietrich for the Museum Godeffroy, Aboriginal History 10, 157-170

Professional Memberships

  • Institute of Australian Geographers; Association of American Geographers; Association of Pacific Coast Geographers; California Geographical Society; Los Angeles Geographical Society; Society of Woman Geographers