Thomas J Bassett

In The News

  • Professor Emeritus Tom Bassett presented an invited paper on cartography and colonialism in 19th century West Africa at the Frontier Forum on Cartographic History, organized by Chinese colleagues at Yunnan University. During a side trip, Tom and his wife Carol Spindel visited the spectacular...

  • Professor Emeritus Tom Bassett has received the AAG Cultural and Political Ecology specialty group's 2018 Robert McC. Netting Award, which recognizes distinguished research and professional activities that bridge geography and anthropology....

  • By Professor Emeritus Tom Bassett On July 26, 2018, Chancellor Robert Jones of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign made Native land history a campus-wide topic. His office issued a Land Acknowledgement...