Reginald Golledge, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Reginald Golledge

Australian-born American geographer

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1937

Date of Death: 29-May-2009

Profession: geographer

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Reginald George Golledge (born 6 December 1937 in Dungog, New South Wales; died 29 May 2009 in Goleta, California) was an Australian-born American Professor of Geography at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
He was named Faculty Research Lecturer for 2009.
During his career he wrote or edited 16 books and 100 chapters for other books, and wrote more than 150 academic papers.
Golledge was a pioneer in the field of behavioral geography.
When behavioral geography divided into a humanistic and an analytical approach by the early 1970s, Golledge became the chief proponent of the latter one.
In 1984 he became blind, and moved his focus to the geography of disability.
Golledge was one of the developers (the others being psychologists Jack Loomis and Roberta Klatzky) of the UCSB Personal Guidance System.