Martin W. Lewis (born 1956 in Coos Bay Oregon) is an American historical geographer, author, and academic.
Lewis' early academic focus was on the interplay between economic development, environmental degradation, and cultural change in the highlands of northern Luzon in the Philippines, explored in his dissertation and first book.
Lewis publishes a blog called GeoCurrents that examines a wide variety of geographical and historical topics and includes many original maps.
[8] In a 2010 interview he gave to Leonhardt van Efferink from Exploring Geopolitics, Lewis defined metageography as the often overlooked spatial frameworks through which knowledge is organized in social sciences and humanities.
Regarding postmodernism, Lewis appreciated its questioning of received categories but criticized its tendency to erase its own position and indulge in too much theory.