B.Soc.Sc., Social and Economic Geography, Lund University (1994)
M.Soc.Sc., Social and Economic Geography, Lund University (1996)
Ph.D., Geography, University of Tennessee (2004)
Dr. Ola Johansson is an associate professor of geography who joined the Pitt-Johnstown faculty in 2002, coming from the University of Tennessee. His main teaching and research focus is urban geography, particularly urban governance and policy. He also conducts research in music geography. As a native of Sweden, his regional interest is mainly Europe, and as a former Tennessee Valley Authority employee, energy geography is a secondary interest as well. At Pitt-Johnstown, Dr. Johansson teaches Earth and People (GEOG 0810), Urban Development (GEOG 0610), Urban Geography (GEOG 1610), Geography of the United States (GEOG 0310), Geography of Europe (GEOG 0325), and Energy, Environment and Society (GEOG 1260).
Recent publications:
Johansson, O. (Forthcoming). From Entrepreneurialism to Social Regulation: Nashville’s Business Elite and Local Education, Southeastern Geographer.
Johansson, O. (Forthcoming). Regulation Theory. In Warf, B. (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Geography. Sage Publications.
Johansson, O. and Bell, T. L. (Eds.) (2009). Sound, Society, and the Geographies of Popular Music. Farnham (UK): Ashgate Publishing.
Johansson, O. and Bell, T. L. (2009). Introduction. In Johansson and Bell (Eds) Sound, Society, and the Geographies of Popular Music. Farnham (UK): Ashgate Publishing.
Johansson, O. and Bell, T. L. (2009). Where are the New US Music Scenes? In Johansson and Bell (Eds) Sound, Society, and the Geographies of Popular Music. Farnham (UK): Ashgate Publishing.
Johansson, O. (2007). Air Emissions from Coal Transportation in the United States since the Clean Air Act Amendment of 1990, The Wisconsin Geographer, 22: 40-59. Johansson, O. (2007). Ten People Can’t Run This City Anymore: Neoliberalism and Governance Change in Nashville Circa 1987-1999, Southeastern Geographer, 47(2): 298-319.
Johansson, O. (2007). Inter-Urban Competition and Air Transport in the Deregulated Era: The Nashville Case, Journal of Transport Geography, 15(5): 368-379.
Cornebise, M. and Johansson, O. (2006). Sweden vs. Multiculturalism: The Making of Neighborhood Identity in Chicago’s Andersonville, Bulletin of the Illinois Geographical Society, 48(1): 20-37.
Johansson, O. and Bell, T. L. (2006). Nashville. In Pillsbury, R. (Ed.) New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, Vol. 2: Geography (p. 180-182). Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
Johansson, O. (2005). An Assessment of Urban Sprawl in the Middle States Region, 1990-2000. Middle States Geographer, 38: 14-21.