Assistant Professor, Experiential Leaning Coordinator, and Geography Club Advisor 

Education

• Ph.D.  University of North Carolina - Greensboro
• M.A.  University of Wyoming 
• B.S.  University of North Alabama

Areas of Expertise

• Political Geography

• GIS (Geographic Information Systems)
• Electoral Geography 
• American South 
• Enviornmental Hazards 
• Urban Geography 

Selected Publications and Research Contributions

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• Balentine. 2022. Geographic Language and the 2020 presidential Debates. In Atlas of the 2020 Election. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield publishers. 

• Balentine, M. D., and C. Johnson. 2020. Sovereignty. In International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (Second Edition). Oxford: Elsevier

• Balentine. 2018b. The Changing Electoral Landscape of the Western United States. The Professional Geographer 70 (4):566–582.

• Balentine, M. D., and G. R. Webster. 2018a. Place Names as a Form of Strategic Political Communication: An Analysis of Geographic Language Used in U.S. Presidential Debates from 1976-2012. In The Changing Global Map of Languages. New York: Springer.

• Johnson, C., and M. D. Balentine. 2014. Politics in the Landscape: Reading Toponymy in Political Geography. In Proceeding of the 20th International Seminar on Sea Names. Gyeongju, Korea.

Courses

• GE 111: Weather and Climate
• GE 303: Geography of the South 
• GE 404/504: Natural Hazards and Disasters