William M. Denevan

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**William Maxfield Denevan** (16 October 1931-) William M. Denevan is professor emeritus of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a prominent member of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography. *Bill* was born 16 October 1931 and grew up in San Diego, California. He later began studies at Long Beach City College and transferred to the University of California, Berkeley where he studied under professors like Sauer, Leighly, Kesseli, Parsons, and Rostlund, and obtained his bachelor's degree in 1953. After a stint in the US Navy and timeout exploring Mexico and South America, Cape Horn, Peruvian Andes and Amazon writing articles during 1956 - "*the defining event of [his] life as a geographer*" - he returned to Berkeley to take his master's. His field research was in Nicaragua during 1957 and his master's thesis was completed in following year and published as "*The Upland Pine Forests of Nicaragua: A Study in Cultural Plant Geography*". After returning to Gualala, Bill married Patricia Sue and they had their first child, William Curtis. Before his second, Victoria Alden, was born he was fortunate to receive funding from The Foreign Field Research Program (through the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council and the Office of Naval Research). This helped Bill with his Berkeley doctoral research in Bolivia - this thesis was published as "*The Aboriginal Cultural Geography of the Llanos de Mojos of Bolivia*" (1963). Joining the Geography De

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