出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/02/01 17:36 UTC 版)
Gerard Toal (Irish: Gearóid Ó Tuathail; born 1962 in the Republic of Ireland) is Professor of Government and International Affairs and Director of the Government and International Affairs program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, National Capital Region campus. Toal grew up in the border region of Ireland, in the village of Smithborough, County Monaghan. He received a B.A. in History and Geography from National University of Ireland, Maynooth with First Class Honours in 1982. He obtained a M.A. in Geography from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1984 and a Ph.D. in Political Geography from Syracuse University in 1989. John O'Loughlin in Illinois and John A. Agnew in Syracuse, were his academic advisors. Following his Ph D, Toal was hired in 1989 as Assistant Professor of Geography at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg where he worked for ten years before moving to the Washington DC region to establish what became the Government and International Affairs program in the School of Public and International Affairs.