American geographer, phenomenologist and academic
David Seamon (born 14 April 1948)[1] is an American geographer, phenomenologist, author and academic. Seamon in known for his work on the theory of architectural phenomenology,[2] environmental phenomenology, and environmental design as placemaking. He is the editor of the Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology journal, published since 1990. Seamon is the author of several books in behavioral geography and place phenomenology including Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds and Place Making (2018, Routledge)[3][4][5][6] and A Geography of the Lifeworld: Movement, Rest and Encounter.[a][7][8] Seamon has been Professor of Environment-Behavior and Place Studies at Kansas State University since 1993.[9]
Biography
Seamon was born on 14 April 1948. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the State University of New York at Albany in 1970 and from Clark University with a PhD in geography in 1977.[1] As a post-doctoral research fellow, he attended the University of Lund in Sweden from 1978 to 1980, working with humanistic geographer Anne Buttimer.[10] Seamon was Visiting assistant professor at the University of Oklahoma from 1980 to 1983. He joined the Department of Architecture at Kansas State University in 1983 first as a Tenure-track assistant professor, and then as an associate professor from 1987 to 1993 when he was promoted to full Professor.[9]
