Skip to main content

Utility

  • Admissions
  • Exploring Grad School
  • Current Students
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  • Faculty + Staff
  • Alumni
Give
COVID-19 UPDATES
Report Sexual Misconduct
Home

Main navigation

Search is currently disabled
  • Academics
    • Master of Science
    • Master of Landscape Architecture
    • Doctoral (PhD)
    • Dual-Degree Programs
    • Graduate Certificate Programs
    • Undergraduate Program
    • Courses
  • Research + Impact
    • Sustainability Themes
    • PhD Profiles
    • Student Research
    • The Centers, Institutes + Initiatives
    • Faculty Profiles
    • Labs
  • Admissions
    • Exploring Graduate School
    • Why Michigan?
    • How to Apply
    • Funding
    • Online Games
    • Visit Campus
    • International Students
    • For Admitted Students
    • Admissions FAQs
    • Rackham Graduate School Resources
  • Student Services
    • SEAS Student Center
    • Career Services
    • Financial Aid
    • Academic Advising
    • Student Organizations
    • Student Development
    • Forms, Handbooks + Policies
    • Quick Links
  • News
    • Community Highlights
    • In the Media
    • Stewards Magazine
  • Events
    • Co-Sponsorship Form
    • Submit Event
    • Admissions Webinars
    • Gallery
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Leadership
    • Demographics
    • Faculty Profiles
    • Administrative Departments + Staff
    • Facilities + Locations
    • Diversity, Equity + Inclusion
    • Art & Environment Gallery
    • Land Acknowledgement
    • History

Utility

  • Admissions
  • Exploring Grad School
  • Current Students
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
  • Faculty + Staff
  • Alumni
Give
COVID-19 UPDATES
Report Sexual Misconduct
search icon Search

Faculty

Image
Faculty Group 2022
  • Academics
  • Research + Impact
  • Admissions
  • Student Services
  • News
  • Events
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Leadership
    • Demographics
    • Faculty Profiles
    • Administrative Departments + Staff
    • Facilities + Locations
    • Diversity, Equity + Inclusion
    • Art & Environment Gallery
    • Land Acknowledgement
    • History

Main navigation

  • Academics
  • Research + Impact
  • Admissions
  • Student Services
  • News
  • Events
  • About
    • Who We Are
    • Leadership
    • Demographics
    • Faculty Profiles
    • Administrative Departments + Staff
    • Facilities + Locations
    • Diversity, Equity + Inclusion
    • Art & Environment Gallery
    • Land Acknowledgement
    • History
back to all faculty

David Baylis

David Baylis 2
Lecturer
Behavior, Education, and Communication
Cross-cutting
baylisda@umich.edu

How to Apply to SEAS Graduate Programs

Explore Graduate School

About

David Baylis is an historical and cultural geographer by training who chose to study geography because it afforded him the space to be eclectic, odd, interstitial, even tentacular in his academic and personal pursuits.   

According to Baylis, it helped a "queer kid from rural Michigan discover a conceptual home for the tumult in his head."

Despite being somewhat mercurial when it comes to said academic interests, place/identity/story are almost always at the center of what David does and who he is. David has spent nearly a decade living in an odd collection of places, from rural Anatolia and Ankara to the Mississippi Delta, Little Rock, and Memphis. Each has added its accretions to his sense of self and story. Whether it's mapping neighborhoods and residents erased and displaced by urban renewal policies in Little Rock, restoring historically African American cemeteries in Memphis, or documenting the hybrid landscapes created by the rise and decline of catfish aquaculture in the Mississippi Delta, David is committed to the power of spatial storytelling as an empathic tool for effective coalition-building around issues and advocacy.

Publications

Education

Fulbright-Hays Fellow, Middle Eastern Technical University

PhD, Michigan State University (geography)

MS, Michigan State University (geography)

BS, Aquinas College (geography)

 

Affiliations

National Council for Geographic Education (NCGE)

seas logo
University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability
Dana Building
440 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
(734) 764-6453
Email us
facebook
twitter
instagram
linkedin
youtube
flickr
planet blue global impact logo

Footer

  • Contact us
  • Intranet
  • Contact Web Team

© 2023 The Regents of the University of Michigan | Privacy Policy | Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Produced by Michigan Creative