About
My name is Mark Rice. I am the Chair of American Studies at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. I’m the author of Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photography Surveys of the 1970s (UP of Mississippi, 2005), and several scholarly articles, the most recent of which is “Colonial Photography Across Empires and Islands,” Journal of Transnational American Studies 3:2 (2011).
Ranking America (Twitter name: RankingAmerica) can help individuals better understand how the United States stands in global rankings in a variety of categories. I gather the data that I post from a variety of sources. I previously added to the blog on a regular basis, but in July 2011 my work on it became more sporadic due to other writing commitments, in particular a book about the photography of Dean Conant Worcester that I have under contract.
I make every effort to report the data accurately, and I welcome anyone pointing out whatever inadvertent mistakes I may make.
Excellent. I look forward to your posts.
i would love to know how American studies programs are ranked.
I love your site. Keep it up !
I’ve been looking to find a recent ranking of where the US stands in funding the arts. Any ideas?
I’ll post a ranking on this topic soon!
Dear Mark –
This is probably the most important website I have seen in the last few years…. I have been collecting info and US ratings for family and friends for the last three years trying to ask the question “are you ok with this” to help them make better decisions about the people they vote for on all levels.
This is the question all the news organizations and politicians are not asking….education statistics, consumption, infant mortality, environmental commitment,
social mindfulness…… the hardest thing I found was to evaluate the people or organizations making the rankings, especially in softer issues.
I would like to talk to you further about where you should go with this. If ever there was a need for a wider channel, you and this information are it.
Thank you Wil Johnson
Hi Mark and congrats on your site.
One ranking many people here will not like for sure is on AUTISM the epidemic cretaed to favor Pharmaceutical gangs?
Hope you can help us all with some of your valuable research.
Hi Mark – great idea and a lot of work, well done.
I am undertaking an MA in Arts Policy and Managment in the UK.
For one of my essays I need to compare the policy approaches of 3 different countries. i thought it might be interesting to look at the UK, USA and Russia pre-and post WW2 because they are also so very different, and partly because the UK Arts Council model grew out of a wartime policy to protect our art but also make culture accesible during wartime.
I am looking at some basic comparisons on this site http://www.culturalpolicies.net/web/index.php but unfortunately the USA is not yet included. I wondered if you might know where I could get similar information listed under each country flag?
Thanks for considering this.
alll the best.
Karl
Karl,
I don’t know if there is a single source for the information you’re interested in obtaining. Maybe another reader can help?
Great site. It would be really useful if you could offer an RSS feed.
You got it!
are there figures on total imports and exports. where does us stand on total imports and exports against world countries. who imports most and who exports most? r larue
The EU is the largest in both categories. In terms of single countries, the U.S. is the largest importer, and China is the largest exporter, followed by Germany and then the United States. You can find this data in the CIA World Factbook.
Hi Mark,
I chanced upon your site while trying to locate some data on year-over-year real estate values in our fair city. I recall reading somewhere that Rochester values stayed steady or even increased relative to other US cities in recent years.
Does this sound familiar to you? Can you point me in the right direction for references?
Thanks—yours is an interesting site for sure. Well done!
Zillow.com has such data.
I like your website and all the data you collected must be a lot of work to do! Thank you!
Thank you!