Casey D. Allen

A rural-raised, first-generation university student, my experience outside the Ivory Tower includes being a cook, naturalist, hotel maid, stagehand, general farm labor, video game technician, stock boy, janitor, various retail positions, & a survey engineer in Latin America. I enjoy cold root beer, desserts, musical stylings of ABBA, Billy Joel, Huey Lewis, & “Weird Al”, movies, excellent beef, sports, True Love, playing in the dirt, The Arts, hot chocolate, wandering through forests, Hello Kitty, rain, sci-fi/fantasy, nutmeg, exploring ruins, watching clouds, natural (hot) springs, & the Oxford Comma. Alongside earning my PhD (in Geography), I’ve been a Fulbright Scholar (Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan), National Science Foundation Fellow, and Early Career Scholar (Geographic Education), while pursuing research in geomorphology (the “Science of Scenery”), stone deterioration, humanistic geography, rock art, landscape studies, & biocrusts. @caseallen (X) & @casoir (Insta & TikTok)