The Professional Geographer, 54(3) 2002, pages 305?317 ? Copyright 2002 by Association of American Geographers. Initial submission, June 2001; revised submission, January 2002; ?nal acceptance, February 2002. Published by Blackwell Publishing, 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, and 108 Cowley Road, Oxford, OX4 1JF, UK. ARTICLES The Big Questions in Geography Susan L. Cutter University of South Carolina Reginald Golledge University of California, Santa Barbara William L. Graf University of South Carolina In noting his fondness for geography, John Noble Wilford, science correspondent for The New York Times , neverthe- less challenged the discipline to articulate those big questions in our ?eld, ones that would generate public interest,