Michelle Metro-Roland

Dr. Metro-Roland is a Cultural Geographer and an Affiliate Professor in the School of Environment, Geography, and Sustainability. Her research explores landscape, place, and material culture and is concerned with questions of interpretation and embodied experience. Her recent work has investigated the ways in which various scales of local, national, and global culture interact in the built and natural environment. She has published numerous articles and book chapters, as well as a monograph, Tourists, Signs and the City: The Semiotics of Culture in an Urban Landscape, and is co-author of Tourism, Performance, and Place: A Geographic Perspective, and co-editor of Landscape, Tourism, and Meaning. She has collaborated on research with scholars in the US, Romania, and Brazil. She is a co-founder of the Landscape Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers. At the Haenicke Institute for Global Education, Dr. Metro-Roland works on issues of international student inclusion and is the campus representative for the Fulbright program.