Mark Drayse

Contact Information

Office: H-423
Phone: (657) 278-7593
E-Mail: mdrayse@fullerton.edu

Mark Drayse

Undergraduate Advisor and Department Chair

Education

Ph.D. in Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997
M.A. in Geography, University of Toronto, 1985
B.A. in Geography, Clark University, 1981

Research Interests

Globalization and Industrial Change, Regional Economic Development, Natural Resources, Canada, Southern Africa.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate Courses
GEOG 100: Global Geography
GEOG 300A: Geographic Thought
GEOG 330: California
GEOG 332: United States and Canada
GEOG 344: Africa
GEOG 352: National Parks
GEOG 360: Geography of the World’s Economies
GEOG 370: Cities and Suburbs
GEOG 462: Geography of Natural Resources

Graduate Courses
GEOG 500: Seminar in Geographic Research

Selected Publications and Presentations

Publications

Drayse, M. (2015) Geography of the new economy [Géographie de la "nouvelle économie"], Chapter 9 in Leriche, F. (Ed.) Etats-Unis : Géographie de L'hyperpuissance, Paris: A. Colin (in press). 

Drayse, M. (2015) Temporalities of development in Southern California [Temporalités du développement dans la Californie du Sud], Chapter 5 in Bresson, M., Cartier-Bresson, J., Geronomi,  V., and Leriche, F. (Eds.) Temporalités Plurielles et Défis de la Mesure : Regards Croisés en Sciences Sociales. Paris: Editions GEMDEV (in press).

Drayse, Mark H. (2011) Globalization and innovation in a mature industry: furniture manufacturing in Canada, Regional Studies, 45, 299-318.   

Drayse, Mark H. (2008) Globalization and regional change in the U.S. furniture industry, Growth and Change, 39, 252-282.

Sonenshein, Raphael J. and Mark H. Drayse (2008).  The political geography of coalitions in an age of immigration: the case of Los Angeles, pp. 99-127 in Frédérik Douzet, Thad Kousser, and Kenneth P. Miller, Eds., The New Political Geography of California. Berkeley: Berekely Public Policy Press.  

Sonenshein, Raphael J. and Mark H. Drayse (2006) Urban electoral coalitions in an age of immigration: time and place in the 2001 and 2005 Los Angeles mayoral primaries, Political Geography, 25, 570-595.

Drayse, Mark H. (2004).  Local labor market restructuring and the employment of welfare recipients in Los Angeles County, Urban Geography, 25, 139-172.

Presentations

Drayse, Mark H. “Suburbia transformed: 21st Century Orange County, California”, paper presented at the meetings of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles, April 2013.

Drayse, Mark H. “The restructuring of a global city-region: Los Angeles 1990-2009”, paper presented at the meetings of the Association of American Geographers in Seattle, April 2011.

Sonenshein, R., Drayse, M., and Lemoigne, Y. “Inter-ethnic relations at ground zero: African American voting on Proposition 187 in Los Angeles”, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in San Antonio, April 2011.

Drayse, Mark H. “Canadian furniture manufacturing in an era of globalization”, paper presented at the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States conference in Toronto, November 2007.

Drayse, Mark H. “Regional dynamics of Canadian furniture manufacturing in an era of globalization”, paper presented at the meetings of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco, April 2007.

Drayse, Mark H. and Raphael J. Sonenshein. “Black response to Latino empowerment: the 2001 and 2005 mayoral elections in Los Angeles”, paper presented at the Political Studies Association conference in Bath, England, April 2007.

Sonenshein, Raphael J. and Mark H. Drayse. “Urban coalitions in an age of immigration: core coalitions in the 2001 and 2005 mayoral primaries in the City of Los Angeles”, paper presented at America’s Americans: the Populations of the United States, a conference organized by the British Library Eccles Centre for American Studies and the Institute for the Study of the Americas, London, England, May 2006.

Drayse, Mark H. “Corporate globalization in the Los Angeles furniture industry”, paper presented at the meetings of the Association of American Geographers in Denver, April 2005.

Sonenshein, Raphael J. and Mark H. Drayse. “Urban coalitions in an era of immigration: time and place in the 2001 and 2005 mayoral primaries in Los Angeles”, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Oakland, March 2004.

Sonenshein, Raphael J. and Mark H. Drayse, “The new institutionalism meets the new diversity: charter reform and secession in Los Angeles”, paper presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association in Denver, March 2003.

Drayse, Mark H., “Downgraded manufacturing? The resurgence of the Los Angeles furniture industry”, paper presented at the meetings of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles, March 2002.

Drayse, Mark H., “Labor immigration, welfare reform, and the new urban poverty in Los Angeles”, paper presented at the meetings of the Association of American Geographers in New York City, March 2001.

Drayse, Mark H., “Workfare policy and labor markets in Los Angeles County”, paper presented at the meetings of the Association of American Geographers in Pittsburgh, April 2000.

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