Dr. Frank Ainsley

Professor of Geography

Deloach 128
Department of Geography and Geology
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
601 South College Road
Wilmington, NC 28403-5944
Tel: 910 962-3493; Fax: 910 962-7077
email: ainsleyfATuncw.edu, Personal Webpage

Education:
Master of Divinity, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 1969
M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1972
Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1977

Teaching:
Dr. Ainsley teaches GGY 140 Introduction to Human Geography, GGY 385 Geography of Europe, GGY 478 Historic Preservation Planning, GGY 578 Historic Preservation, GGY 452 Historical Geography of the United States, GGY 552 Historical Geography, GGY 382 Regional Geography of the US and Canada, GGY 485 Geography of the British Isles, GGY 282 Geography of North Carolina, and GGY 255 Geography of the Middle East.

Research Interests:
Dr. Ainsley is a cultural-historical geographer whose interests include rural settlement landscapes; ethnic landscapes; religious landscapes; historic preservation; and vernacular architecture. Regional interests are Southeastern United States, Colorado Plateau, Scandinavia, and the Caribbean Islands (Barbados). Research projects include chattel houses and settlements in Barbados; tourism images and perceptions of Barbados; rural settlement patterns in Norway; and immigrant farm colonies in southeastern North Carolina. He is also the secretary-treasurer of the Pioneer America Society, an organization of geographers, historians, and folklife specialists who study material culture and vernacular landscapes