Book Review
Rowley, Rex J. 2016. Review of: The Garage: Automobility and Building Innovation in America’s Early Auto Age. By John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Social & Cultural Geography 17, no. 7: 984-986. doi:10.1080/14649365.2016.1154127.
Rowley, Rex J. 2015. Review of: Fluid New York: Cosmopolitan Urbanism and the Green Imagination. By May Joseph. Urban Geography 36, no. 3: 460-461. doi:10.1080/02723638.2014.1000067.
Book, Authored
Rowley, Rex J. 2013. Everyday Las Vegas: Local Life in a Tourist Town. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 272 p. (Paperback, published February, 2014).
Book, Chapter
Rowley, Rex J. 2018. “Landscapes of Recovery: Shifting Senses of Place Attachment in Kesennuma, Japan” in Explorations in Place Attachment, edited by Jeffery Smith, 211-225. London: Routledge.
Rowley, Rex J. 2015. “Faith Islands in Hedonopolis: Ambivalent Adaptation in Las Vegas,” in The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics, Volume 4, edited by Stanley D. Brunn, 2265-2284. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer.
Rowley, Rex J. 2013. “Where Locals Play: Neighborhood Casino Landscapes in Las Vegas,” in Frontiers in Chance: Gaming Research Across the Disciplines, edited by David G. Schwartz, 99–114. Las Vegas: UNLV Gaming Press.
Journal Article
Rowley, Rex J. 2020. “Evoking a Shifting Sense of Place in One Museum Following the 3/11 Tsunami in Japan.” Asian Geographer, 37, no. 2: 145-70. doi: 10.1080/10225706.2019.1703768
Rowley, Rex J. 2020. “Under Threat of Fire.” GeoHumanities, 6, no. 2: 424-431. doi: 10.1080/2373566X.2020.1778501
Rowley, Rex J. 2019. “Kiribati at the Center of the World.” FOCUS on Geography, 62, no. 4. http://www.focusongeography.org/publications/photoessays/kiribati/index.html. doi: 10.21690/foge/2019.62.4p
Rowley, Rex J. 2018. “Voluntary Regions and the Case of Las Vegas.” Journal of Cultural Geography, 35, no. 1: 102-32. doi: 10.1080/08873631.2017.1375371.
Rabie, A., Peterson, E. W., Kostelnick, J. C., and Rowley, R. J., 2017, Optimizing DEM resolution inputs and number of stream gauges in GIS predictions of flood inundation: A case study along the Illinois River (IL), USA: Environmental and Engineering Geoscience, doi:10.2113/EEG-1890.
Rowley, Rex J. 2019. “Antecedent Landscapes and Las Vegas Casinos: Exploring Place through a Referential Perspective.” Annual Meeting of the International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture, Detroit, MI, October 10-12, 2019.
Rowley, Rex J. 2018. “Evoking a Sense of Place Through Museum Design in Kesennuma, Japan.” Annual Meeting of the International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture, New Orleans, LA, September 27-29, 2018.
Rowley, Rex J. 2017. “Faith, Sin City, and a Sense of Place in Las Vegas.” Annual Meeting of the International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture, Salt Lake City, Utah, October 19-20, 2017.
Learning Geography in Japan: A Study Abroad Field Experience. GGGeo Colloquium Series. Department of Geography-Geology. (2016)
Determining Effects of Physical Characteristics of Storm Sewer Sheds on Water Quality of an Urban Streams in Bloomington, IL. Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America. Geological Society of America. (2014)
Discussion and Q&A for Everyday Las Vegas. Brandeis University Las Vegas Chapter, Book and Author Series. Brandeis University Las Vegas Chapter. (2014)
Emerging World Cities: A Discussion About Dilemmas and Possibilities. International Studies Seminar: World Cities. ISU Office of International Studies and Programs. (2014)
Evoking Las Vegas Place Particularity and Typicality through Popular Music. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Association of American Geographers. (2014)
Neighborhood Casinos in Illinois. Annual Meeting of the Illinois Geographical Society. Illinois Geographical Society. (2014)
Rebooting Devil’s Lake Fieldtrips With Mobile GIS, Apps, and Maps. GGGeo Colloquium Series. Department of Geography-Geology. (2014)
Pretenure Faculty Innovation Grant. College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2015)
Kenneth A. and Mary Ann Shaw Teaching Fellowship. College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2014)
Neighborhood Casinos in Illinois: A Statewide Spatial Analysis of Gaming Patterns. Illinois Geographical Society. State. (2014)
New Faculty Innovation Grant. College of Arts and Sciences. Illinois State University. (2014)
Devil’s Lake State Park Geology – mobile web and mobile app. University of Wisconsin System-Extension. State. (2012)
