Office: 420H Flarsheim Hall
Phone: 816 2352971
Email: drievers@umkc.edu
Professor Steven L. Driever is a human geographer who has studied the historical geography of Spain and Latin America, the geographic imagery of Spanish literature and Spanish as a language for geographical expression, and the migration and settlement of Latinos in the Kansas City metropolitan area. His investigations in Latin America have included the economic development and social transformation associated with an international mining operation in Guatemala, the spatial and temporal arrangements of Guatemalan periodic markets, the population potential of the Classic Maya, and the Caribbean Basin's economic integration with North America. He has worked with the Instituto Tecnológico Geominero in Madrid to research the changing perception of the Spanish landscape within the Regenerationist movement in late nineteenth-century Spain, with an emphasis on the writings of polymathic Lucas Mallada. His studies in literary geography have focused on the poetry of Pablo Neruda and Antonio Machado. Most recently, he has examined and written about the new wave of Latino immigration and inmigration to greater Kansas City and its profound effects on the local Latino community and the city at large.
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