Peruzzi, Duilio (1926-2016)
Date Updated
8-7-2019
Department
Geography and Environmental Studies
Academic Rank
Professor
Year Retired from SJSU
1993
Educational Background
University of Michigan, 1963 PhD
Wayne State University, 1958 MA
Wayne State University & Univ of Washington, 1954 BA
Teaching Experience
San José State University,1965-1993
Wayne State University, Summer 1965
California State University, Long Beach, Spring 1965
UCLA , 1962-1965
Wayne State University & University of Michigan, 1957-1962
Administrative and Professional Experience
Coordinator of AMS (DMA) Projects and Chief Editor of Name Gazetteers for European Strategic Boundaries
Research Geographer with USGS and NASA-Ames
Selected Publications
Cooperated on three Atlases (Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States; Atlas of Urban and Regional Change;Land Use of Santa Clara Valley, CA).
Ten articles in Regional, National and International Journals, and Special Reports for the U. S. Government.
Some 100 Maps, Graphs, etc. in Books, Journals, Reports, etc.
Some 25 Presentations at Professional Associations, Universities, Regional and National and International Congresses.
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Personal Commentary
I enjoyed teaching, and some of my friends tell me I have not stopped lecturing yet. Cartography and Remote Sensing of the Environment were my bread-and- butter courses, but it was Europe, and particularly the Mediterranean, that never tired me.
I began my academic life as a post WWII returnee from Italy where I spent fifteen years of my early youth, and it was my living in Detroit that convinced me there must be something more rewarding than assembly-line work.
Both my Master's thesis and Ph.D. dissertation dealt with primary research done in Italy and particularly Tuscany during my scholarship years of 1955-1957. I was three-times Resident Director of the CSU International Program in Florence (1976, 1979, 1986), and since my retirement in 1993 I have been a member of the Province of Florence/County of Santa Clara Sister County Commission of which I am also the liaison. This, and having a house in Cortona, where I grew up (now known as the town of "Under the Tuscan Sun" by Frances Mayes), keep me immersed in things Italian both in California and Italy.
Date Completed: September 2010