Alyson L. Greiner is Professor of Geography at Oklahoma State University. She earned her PhD in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin. She has taught courses on cultural geography, world regional geography, the history of geographic thought, and the regional geography of Europe, Africa, and the Pacific Realm. She regularly teaches undergraduate, graduate, and honors students. She has received a Distinguished Teaching Achievement Award from the National Council for Geographic Education. From 2009-2012 she served as a Regional Councilor for the Association of American Geographers. Her scholarly publications include Anglo-Celtic Australia: Colonial Immigration and Cultural Regionalism (with Terry G. Jordan-Bychkov) and several peer-reviewed journal articles. She is presently the editor of the Journal of Cultural Geography.