John C. Hudson is Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Program in Geography, and Associate Director of the Environmental Sciences Program.  Professor Hudson holds a BS degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and MA and PhD degrees in Geography from the University of Iowa.  After teaching briefly at the University of North Dakota and the University of Wisconsin, he joined the Northwestern University faculty in 1971.  From 1975 to 1981 he was editor of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.   Among his books are Plains Country Towns (University of Minnesota Press, 1985) which won the first J. B. Jackson Prize awarded by the Association of American Geographers; Making the Corn Belt (Indiana University Press, 1994); and Across this Land: A Regional Geography of the United States and Canada, which was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2002.  He was a Guggenheim fellow in 1988-89.  He has published numerous articles on mathematical geography, historical migration patterns, and the settlement history of the Great Plains. He has been honored for outstanding teaching on several occasions by the Associated Student Government and by Mortar Board.  His most recent book is Chicago: A Geography of the City and Its Region, which was published by the Center for American Places and the University of Chicago Press in 2006.