Refereed Articles
[Accepted on 1/15/24] Swab, Jack. Assessing Geography’s Place in U.S. Higher Education: An Analysis of Undergraduate Geography Course Enrollment from 1948-2000. The Professional Geographer.
[Early Online] Swab, Jack. Variations on a Theme: Understanding and Contextualizing Sanborn Fire Insurance Map Typologies. Journal of Maps & Geography Libraries.
[Early Online] Craig, Bethany; Swab, Jack; DeBruin, Jed. Bowling for Better: Reforming World Geography Bowl to Create a More Inclusive Geography. The Professional Geographer.
[Early Online] Seitz, David; Cockayne, Daniel; Good, Ryan Z.; Hannum, Kathryn L.; Kroepsch, Adrianne C.; Rhodes, Mark; Swab, Jack; Worth, Nancy. Critical geographers teaching and working in STEM higher education: reckoning with the institution and learning from each other. Journal of Geography in Higher Education.
[Accepted on 3/30/23] Swab, Jack. Beyond “Clerical Cartography”: Gender and the (Re)Production of Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps in the 1920s. The Cartographic Journal.
2022 Swab, Jack and Gieseking, Jack. Toward Queering the Map 2.0: a Conversation with Michael Brown, Lawrence K. Knopp, and Bo Zhao. ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies, 24(4), 416-435.
Refereed Abstracts
2023 Swab, Jack. Changing Desires and Aims in Public Health Mapping in the United States, 1920-2020. Abstracts of the ICA, 6, 251.
2021 Swab, Jack. Intellectual Property and Maps: Legal Protections for Cartographic Works from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century. Abstracts of the ICA, 3, 282.
2019 Swab, John. Mapping a Nation: Daniel Carter Beard’s Time as a Surveyor for the Sanborn Map Company. Abstracts of the ICA,1, 359.
Commentaries & Conversations in Refereed Journals
2023 Craine, Jim; Davidson, Ron; Deis, David; Lawrence, David; Scacco, Debra; and Swab, Jack. The Maps with X-Ray Eyes: The Sanborn Map Collection. Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers.
2018 Swab, John and Babcock, Todd. Surveying Northeastern Pennsylvania: Contextualizing the Flower-Walker Collection at the Tioga Point Museum. Journal of Maps and Geography Libraries, 14:1, 9-20.
Book Reviews
2022 Swab, Jack. Review of “Cartography: The Ideal and Its History” by Matthew Edney. Cartographic Perspectives, 98, 74-75.
2019 Swab, John. Review of “The Feminist Bookstore Movement: Lesbian Antiracism and Feminist Accountability” by Kristen Hogan. Antipode, p. 1-6. [https://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/14.-john-swab_ak.pdf]
2018 Swab, John. Review of “Patents and Cartographic Inventions: A New Perspective for Map History” by Mark Monmonier. Cartographic Perspectives, 90, 110-112.