Jeff Roet received his B.A. in geography from the State University of New York at Buffalo and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northwestern University. He is a geography lecturer at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. This has been his full time employment since 1999. Dr. Jeff, as his students call him, has previously taught at the University of Houston at Clear Lake, San Jacinto College in Houston, Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, and the University of Texas at San Antonio. He also has taught in the continuing studies programs at Rice University in Houston and Southern Methodist University in Dallas. Dr. Roet and his wife came to Texas 26 years ago, supposedly for one year, and have been Texans ever since.

A member of the Association of American Geographers and the American Geographical Society, he has done work in urban, political, economic, and urban geography, and has traveled to 38 countries on all continents except Antarctica. He spent a year traveling through India at the age of nineteen and on the same trip visited Nepal, Afghanistan, Lebanon, and Greece. His last trip, in the summer of 2007, accompanied by his beautiful wife, Jeanette, and their geographer-in-training daughter, Jordana, age 7, was through Denmark and Sweden under considerably more sumptuous circumstances.

Dr. Jeff wishes you to know that his profession is geography, his hobby is geography, he married a geographer, and he receives map and globe motif gifts on his birthday and holidays from friends and family, usually covered in map style wrapping paper. He perhaps wishes for more customary presents, but would change nothing else.