Richard Schein

Richard Schein is Professor of Geography at the University of Kentucky. He has been the Fulbright Bicentennial Chair of North American Studies at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and was named Distinguished Historical Geographer by the American Association of Geographers. His scholarship and teaching explore the American landscape including its origins, its forms, its meanings, and its contestations. He lives in a house built in 1849 in Midway, where he serves as the Midway representative on the Woodford County Planning Commission.