Answered By: Alison Carrick
Last Updated: Oct 18, 2022     Views: 184

The Department of Geography at Washington University was founded by Dr. Lewis F. Thomas in 1919. This department was absorbed into the departments of Economics and of Geology in the summer of 1956.

More information about the department can be found in the Department of Geography Records (WUA00020) in University Archives. 

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