Rudi Hartmann

Senior Instructor
Ph.D., Technical University of Munich, 1983

Office: NC 3107-B
Phone: 303.556.5296
E-mail: rudi.hartmann@ucdenver.edu

Areas of Interest:

World Regional Geography, Europe, China, Colorado, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Tourism Planning, Geographic Education

Teaching

• World Regional Geography
• Geography of Colorado
• Geography of Europe
• Geography of China
• Geography of Tourism

Current Research

• Sustainable tourism planning;
• Tourism to Holocaust memorial sites and sites of atrocities;
• Geographic education;
• Heritage Tourism Initiatives for Southeast Colorado, CLAS ACT Grant
• Teaching the Geography of China, Collaboration with Beijing Normal University, China
• The Sustainable Resort in International Perspective: Theory, Planning and Practice (Conference Project)

Select Publications

Rudi Hartmann (ed.) Vignettes from South Central Denver, Denver: Wash Park Media 2008, 40 pp.

“Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization”, New York: Cognizant Communication Corporation 2006, Editors: Thomas Clark, Alison Gill and Rudi Hartmann.

“Horror and Human Tragedy Revisited: The Management of Sites of Atrocities for Tourism”, New York: Cognizant Communication Corporation 2005, Editors: Gregory Ashworth and Rudi Hartmann.

Rudi Hartmann (ed.) The Friends of Dinosaur Ridge 1989-1999 - An Oral History, Morrison, CO 1999, 40 pp.

Klaus Meyer-Arendt and Rudi Hartmann (eds.) Casino Gambling in America: Origins, Patterns, and Impacts, Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corp. 1998, 270 pp.

Rudi Hartmann "Dealing with Dachau in Geographic Education", in Visions of Land and Community - Geography in Jewish Studies. Harold Brodsky (ed.), College Park: University of Maryland Press 1998, pp. 357-369.

Photo Gallery

Hiking near Independence Pass, 12,000 ft. with wife Kathy