Yi-Fu Tuan: The Cultural Geogrpaher

Yi-Fu is also an elected member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a highly respected member of the AAG, the Association for Asian Studies, the American Geographical Society, and the Association for the study of Man-Environment Relations. This honor was followed by Tuan giving the J. Physical geography was considered the basis of all geography, and to Yi-Fu, physical geography teaches the art of detailed and systematic observation, which is useful in humanistic geography. The American Geographical Association gave the Cullum Geographical Medal to Yi-Fu Tuan in 1987 while he was still working at the University of Wisconsin. Two years later, he moved to the University of Minnesota where he had been award the Guggenheim Fellowship award and the “meritous contribution to geography" award by the Association of American Geographers in 1973. He said most geographers of his generation and earlier began their careers in the physical side of the discipline. In 1965, Tuan moved to Ontario, Canada to become the associate professor of Geography at the University of Toronto. Edward Farnum Lecture, "Place, Art, and Self", at Princeton University, in 2003. Another honor he thought to be great was being elected as the 'Best Professor’ by the Wisconsin Student Association, which means that his students as well as fellow scholars admired him. Wright and Vilas Research Professor in the Geography Department of the University of Wisconsin and much to busy teaching a seminar on humanistic geography. After teaching for 16 years at the University of Minnesota, Tuan left in 1984 to become a professor of Geography at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Yi-Fu relates geography, psychology, philosophy, and other sciences.