William E. Doolittle

William E. Doolittle (born September 3, 1947, in Texas, USA) is an American geographer who is prominent among the fourth generation of the Berkeley School of Latin Americanist Geography.

1976) and received his Ph.D. in 1979 from the University of Oklahoma, studying with B.L.Turner II, reportedly struggling financially with a family to support.

He has graduated a number of doctoral students including Andrew Sluyter (1995).

[citation needed] Doolittle's research interests include landscapes, histories, and agricultural technologies in arid lands, particularly the American Southwest and Mexico.

His research focuses on technologies associated with landscape transformations for food production in dry lands.