Dr. Adam E. Clark

Websites, Media, and Marketing
adam.clark@txstate.edu

In addition to The Center for the Study of the Southwest, Dr. Clark also supports websites, media, marketing, and technology support for the Departments of History and Anthropology.  

Beyond his staff role, Dr. Clark received his Ph.D. from the Texas State University Department of Geography and Environmental Studies in 2024 specializing in the broader field of hazards geography.  His dissertation, titled The Role of Cartography and Visualization in Hazard Risk Communication: An Examination of the Houston Chronicle, 1945 to 2020, explores the ways in which hazard maps and related hazard imagery, such as cartoons, have been used to both inform Houston residents about hazard risk, but also how these images have been leveraged metaphorically as commentary on a variety of social issues such as crime, urban development, and nationalism.  His dissertation research won the 2025 Gilbert F. White Dissertation Award presented by the Hazards, Risks, and Disasters Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers.

Dr. Clark also works with GIS and other forms of applied geographic research.  His Master's thesis, later published in Natural Hazards, modeled the effectiveness of using contraflow methods for hurricane evacuation.  He has also conducted research modeling wildfire risk in Austin, Texas (The Southwestern Geographer, 2021 vol. 22), and the perceptions versus realities of instances of crime in areas following flood buyouts (in press).