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Kenneth Martis, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Geography

Publications


ARTICLES

United States Senate Malapportionment: A Geographical Investigation.  Political Geography, Volume 113https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2024.103129.  (with J. Clark Archer, Stanley D. Brunn, and Gerald R. Webster).

“Geographical Patterns of Reapportionment, 1790-2000,”  Guide to U.S. Elections. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005. 863-864.

“Reapportionment, Regional Politics and Partisan Gain.”  Extensions: A Journal of the Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center. Winter 2015, 18-21. (with J. Clark Archer, Robert H. Watrel, Fred M. Shelley, and Gerald R. Webster).

“The Original Gerrymander.”  Political Geography. Vol. 27, No. 4. November 2008, 833-839.

“Sectionalism and the United States Congress.”  Political Geography Quarterly . Vol. 7, No. 2, April 1988, 99-109.

“Mapping Congress: Developing a Geographic Understanding of American Political History.”  Prologue: The Journal of the National Archives. Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 1984, 4-21. (with Ruth A. Rowles).

North America: The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent. Thomas F. McIlwraith and Edward K. Muller, eds. (Totowa, New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001), Chapter Seven “The Geographical Dimensions of a New Nation, 1780s-1820s,” 143-164.

Atlas of the 2008 Elections. Stanley D. Brunn, ed. (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2011), Chapter Nine “Post 2008 Congressional Votes,” 277-291.

“Electoral Map.” Roger Kain, ed.  The History of Cartography, Volume Five: Cartography in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.

“Electoral Map.” Mark Monmonier, ed.  The History of Cartography, Volume Six: Cartography in the Twentieth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015, 349-55.

“Regional Realignments: Appalachia and the Upper South,” in “Spatial and Political Realignment of the U.S. Electorate, 1988-2012.” Gerald R. Webster and Richard L. Morrill.  Political Geography, Vol. 48, 2015, 93-107.


DATABASES

Database of Historical Congressional Statistics. Blacksburg, Virginia: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Department of Political Science, 2001.  Elaine K. Swift, Robert G. Brookshire, David T. Canon, Evelyn C. Fink, John R. Hibbing, Brian D. Humes, Michael J. Malbin and Kenneth C. Martis.

Digital Boundary Definitions of United States Congressional Districts, 1789-2012. Los Angeles, California: University of California Los Angeles, Department of Political Science, 2013. Jeffrey B. Lewis, Brandon DeVine, Lincoln Pitcher, and Kenneth C. Martis.


LEGAL

The Historical Atlas of United States Congressional Districts: 1789-1983, and The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress: 1789-1989, have been used as a legal “Authority” including cases before the United States Supreme Court.

Jefferson County Commission v. Tennant. Expert witness in federal court on congressional redistricting December 2011, Charleston, WV (Case No. 2:11-cv-0989).


EXHIBITION


“Tides of Party Politics: Two Centuries of Congressional Elections 1789-1989,” Museum exhibition, February–August 1989, Library of Congress, Madison Building, Washington, DC (with John R. Sellers and Ingrid M. Maar, with introduction by Cokie Roberts).
Library of Congress Exhibition
Exhibition Opening
Senator Byrd discussing Tides of Party Politics with Martis




DISSERTATION

“The History of Natural Resources Roll-Call Voting in the United States House of Representatives: An Analysis of the Spatial Aspects of Legislative Voting Behavior.” Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Geography, The University of Michigan, 1976.