Researching Don Mitchell
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 60751 people with the Mitchell surname? In that year Mitchell was ranked number 39 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Don means "form of DONALD - proud chief" and is of Celtic origin.
Records of Don Mitchell on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Don Mitchell and the Mitchell Family History
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| Did you know that there are currently 78842 people with the Mitchell surname in the UK? Mitchell is now ranked number 44 for popularity in the UK. |
Mitchell Family History Databases
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Don Mitchell (geographer)
Don Mitchell (born 1961) is Professor of Cultural Geography at Uppsala University (since 2017) and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Geography in the Maxwell School, Syracuse University. From an academic household in California, he is a graduate of San Diego State University (1987), Pennsylvania State University (1989) and received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1992, working with Neil Smith. He taught at the University of Colorado, Boulder before joining Syracuse in the late 1990s.
In 1998, he became a MacArthur Fellow, and in 2008 a Guggenheim Fellow. He was awarded the Anders Retzius Medal from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 2012.
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