Abstract
This article explore the history of geography in the Ivy League – eight of the oldest and most prestigious academic institutions in the United States. Each of these influential universities provided instruction in geography and most established undergraduate or graduate programs at one time or another. Although most Ivy League universities have geographers on their faculties or retain some aspects of the field in the guise of programs such as Urban Planning or Development Studies, Dartmouth College is the only one with a Department of Geography. The discipline has long struggled to establish itself as theoretically grounded and therefore worthy of membership in these universities. Geography’s fate in the Ivies, however, has also hinged on the activities of individual professors, the disposition of key administrators, trends within the discipline, and events outside the field itself.
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