 However, in 1958 he left Utah for a visiting position at the University of Adelaide in Australia, under a Fulbright scholarship, and in 1960 he joined the Syracuse faculty.He was chairman of the geography department at Syracuse from 1968 to 1973, became Maxwell Professor at Syracuse in 1990, and retired in 2004.At Syracuse, Meinig was the doctoral advisor of more than 20 graduate students, including noted New Zealand geographer Evelyn Stokes.