Shaul Ephraim
Cohen
Department of Geography
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1251
(541) 346-4500
scohen@uoregon.edu
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EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Oregon, 2002 -.
Co-Director, Peace Studies Program, 2005 -.
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, University of
Oregon, Fall 1996-2002.
Director, Middle East Studies Program, Elliott School of
International Affairs, George Washington University, 1994 -
Spring, 1996.
Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, George Washington
U., Spring, 1996, 1993-94.
Visiting Professor, Department of Geography, University of
Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, Summer 1995.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, George Mason
University, Fairfax, Virginia, Spring, 1994-1995.
Research Fellow, Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of
Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1991-1993.
Adjunct Lecturer, Rothberg School For Overseas Students, The
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1991-1992.
Coordinator, Geography and Environment Workshop, The Council For
Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences, The
University of Chicago, 1987-1988.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., The University of Chicago, 1991. Thesis
title: The Politics of Planting: Israeli-Palestinian Competition
for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery.
M.A., The University of Chicago, 1987, Department of Geography.
Thesis title: The Sinai Peninsula in the Twentieth Century: From Terra
Nullius to Terra Contentionus.
B.A., Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1983.
Publications - Refereed
Books
Cohen, S. 2004. Planting Nature: Trees
and the Manipulation of Environmental Stewardship in America. Berkeley:
University of California Press.
Cohen, S. 1993. The Politics of Planting: Israeli-Palestinian Competition for Control of Land in the Jerusalem Periphery. University of Chicago Press.
Cohen, S. and Baxter, D. Under contract. Middle East Mosaics: People, Place, and Culture. Roman and Littlefield Publishers.
Articles and Book Chapters
Cohen, S. 2007. "Winning While Losing: The Apprentice Boys of Derry Walk Their Beat." Political Geography 26(8):951-967.
Cohen, S. 2006. “Israel’s West Bank Barrier: An Impediment to Peace?” Geographical Review, 96(4):682-695.
Shresta, N., Cohen, S., Lewis, M., and McDonald, M. 2006. “The Geography of Asia,” in G. Gaile and C. Wilmott, eds., Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, Oxford Press. (Cohen as sole author of Southwest Asia section).
Cohen, S., and Frank, D. 2002. “Jerusalem and the
Riparian Conflict Simile,” Political Geography 21(6):745-765.
Cohen, S.
2002. “As a City
Besieged: Place, Zionism, and the
Deforestation of Jerusalem,” Environment and Planning D:
Society and Space 20(2):209-230.
Cohen, S.
2000. “An Absence of
Place: Expectation and Realization
in the West Bank,” pp. 283-303 in A. Murphy and D. Johnson, eds.
Cultural Encounters with the Environment:
Enduring and Evolving Geographic Themes.
Rowmann and Littlefield.
Cohen, S.
1999. “Promoting Eden:
Tree Planting as the Environmental Panacea,” Ecumene,
6(4):424-446.
Cohen, S. 1994. “Greenbelts in London and Jerusalem,” Geographical Review, 84(1):75-89.
Other Publications
Cohen, S.
1999. “The Aggressive
Nature of Planting,” pp 210-224 in A. Alon et al., eds.
Trees, Earth, and Torah, Jewish Publication Society.
Cohen,
S. 1998. “Terra Sancta: Maps,
Politics, and History,” Mercator’s World, 3(5):16-21.
Cohen,
S. 1995-98. Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia, over twenty entries on Middle
Eastern Geography and Politics.
Cohen, S. 1993. “West Bank Village Planning,” International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva.
Book Reviews
Overthrowing Geography: Jaffa, Tel Aviv, and the Struggle for Palestine, 1880-1948. M. Levine, in Geographical Review 97(3):430-432, 2007.
Political Geography:
A Reader J. Agnew, ed., in Ecumene 6(4):483-484, 1999.
Ethnic Frontiers
and Peripheries: Landscapes of
Development and Inequality in Israel O. Yiftachel and A. Meir, eds., in
Geographical Review 88(3):458-459, 1998.
Rivers of Discord:
International Water Disputes in the Middle East G. Shapland, in The
Middle East Journal, 52(4):626-627, 1998.
The Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967 M. Dumper, in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, volume 558:227-229, 1998.
The Mosaic of Israeli Geography Y. Gradus and Y. Lipshitz, eds., in Progress in Human Geography, 21(4):603:604, 1997.
CONSULTING AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
Editorial Board, Microsoft Encarta Yearbook, 1996 - 2004.
Content Expert, Middle East Section, Microsoft Encarta, the
Microsoft Corporation, 1993- .
West Bank Regional Planning Analyst, International Committee of
the Red Cross, Jerusalem, 1991-1992.
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
"The Pragmatics of Peace Making: Lessons From the Streets of Northern
Ireland," grant from the Savage Endowment for International Relations
and Peace, 2008-2009.
"Northern Ireland in Transition," grant from the Northwest Institute on Conflict Resolution, 2008.
Faculty Perspectives Seminar Grant, University of Oregon, 2005-2007.
Williams Seminar Grant, University of Oregon, 2004.
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Oregon, 2004.
Rippey Fellowship for Innovative Teaching, University of Oregon, 2003-2008.
Center for the Study of Women in Society, University of Oregon, Rockefeller Program's 'Ecological Conversations: Gender, Science and the Sacred' Research Fellowship, 2001.
University of Oregon Humanities Center Fellowship, 2000.
Alfred D. Bell Fellowship, Forest History Society, 1999, 2000.
The Newberry Library, Chicago, Short-term Residential Fellowship, 1999.
Social Science Research Council and the American Council of
Learned Societies, Advanced Research Grant, 1991-1992.
The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of
Peace, Truman Fellow, 1988-1989, Research Support Grant,
1990-1991.
The MacArthur Foundation, Council for Advanced Studies in Peace
and International Cooperation, MacArthur Fellow, 1988, 1989-1990.
COURSES TAUGHT
Urban Settlement In the Developing World; Population and
Settlement; Population and Environment; Geography of Africa;
Geography of the Middle East; Water Resources; Water Policy and
Politics; Urban Social Geography; Urbanization and
Suburbanization; Political Geography; Political Geography of the
Middle East; Cultural Geography; Global Environmental Change; Tree and Forest in
the Human Experience; Cultural Landscapes of the Middle East; Zero Sum Conflict
(CRES program); Northern Ireland in Transition (Honors College)
Graduate Seminars on Tree and
Forest in the Human Experience; Regional Development; Population
and Natural Resources; Nature and Domination in Western Traditions;
Geography, Ethics & Democracy; Geography of War and Peace
ACADEMIC SUPERVISION ( principal advisor for theses completed)
Ph.D.
-Baldwin, Jeff. “Geographic Wealth: Re-conceiving Human Relations With Society
and Our Environment.” 2004
-Bjarneson, Stefan. “Lawn and Order: Gated Communities and Social Interaction
in Dana Point, California.” 2000
-Evered, Kyle. “Romancing the Region: Mapping the Discursive Terrains in
Turkish Constructs of a ‘Turk Dunyasi,’ 1990-2000.”
(co-chair with A. Murphy) 2002.
-Leiserowitz, Anthony. “Global Climate Change: Risk Perceptions and Policy
Preferences.” (ESSP) 2003
M.A./M.S.
-Ferrate, Andres. “Development Collides: Hydroelectric Power and
Commercial Whitewater Rafting on the Rio Reventazon, Costa Rica.” 1997
-Fox, Samuel. "Collaborative Complexity, Power and Place." 2007
-Hommel, Demian. “Continuity and Change: Territoriality in a Thai National
Park.” 2004
-McClenachan, Loren. “Abundance and Blame: The Case of the California Sea Lion
and Salmon.” 2002 (Environmental Studies)
-Plank, Alexandra. “National Organic Standards and Implications for Local Food
Production.” 2003
-Plummer, Jonathan. “The Waters of the Edwards Aquifer, South Central Texas:
Perception and Policy.” 2000 (Environmental Studies)
-Sakrejda, Krzysztof. “Placing Genetic Resources Conservation on Social
Foundations: An Analysis of History and Ideology in the National Plant
Germplasm System.” 2005 (Environmental Studies)
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON SERVICE
-University Senate, 2005-2007 (Executive Committee 2005-2007), 1999-2001.
-Provost's Advisory Council 2006-2007.
-Savage Committee 2006-2008.
-Morse Committee 2006-2007.
-Faculty Advisory Council, 2001-2003, Chair 2002-2003.
-Internal Comprehensive Campaign Advisory Committee, 2002-2003.
-Vice-Provost for Institutional Equity and Diversity Search Committee, 2003.
-Johnson Award Committee (Ex-Officio), 2003.
-Distinguished Service Committee (Ex-Officio), 2003.
-Judaic Studies Program Executive Committee, 2001 -2008.
-Member, Rockefeller Committee, "Ecological Conversations:
Gender, Science, and the Sacred," 1999.
-Member, Judaic Studies Committee, Savage Fellowship
sub-committee on the Middle East, 1997-98.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
-Board Member, Middle East Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers,
2003-3004.
-Director, Middle East Section, Asia Specialty Group, Association
of American Geographers, 1998-2000 .
-Coordinator, Environment and Development Track, International
Development Studies Graduate Program, George Washington
University, 1995.
-Review of Undergraduate Capstone Course, Department of
Geography, George Mason University, Fairfax, 1994, 1995.
-Library Acquisitions Committee, Elliott School of International
Affairs, George Washington University, 1995
SELECTED LECTURES, PAPERS AND PANEL PARTICIPATION
“Trees, Gramsci, and the Perfect World.” Association of American
Geographers, 2003
“Much Ado About Carbon.” The Center for the Study of Women in Society,
Ecological Conversations, 2001
“Planting Nature.” The Oregon Humanities Center, 2000
“The Disappearing Geography of Southwest Asia/The
Middle East.” Association of American Geographers, 2000
"Trees, Environment, and the Seduction of Culture."
Annual Meetings of the International Society of Arboriculture,
1998.
"Tree and Forest in the Human Experience." Mesa Verde
Colloquium on EcoCriticism and Literature, University of Oregon.
1997.
"Forestry in Israel: New Challenges in an Old Land."
Society of American Foresters, Emerald Valley Division, 1997.
"Ethnic Diversity in the Middle East." Willamette
University, 1997.
"Tree Planting As the Global Panacea." Portland State
University, 1997.
"Jerusalem As a Riparian Issue." Willamette University,
1996.
"Dividing the Spoiled: Competition and Conflict In a
Shrinking World." University of Oregon, 1996.
"Economic Development, Politics, and Sovereignty: The
Evolving Threshold of Palestinian Statehood." Association of
American Geographers, 1996.
"Core and Periphery: The Flow of Islam." George
Washington University, 1996.
"Urbanization, Agriculture, and Politics." Johns
Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies,
Washington, D.C., 1995.
"Politicized Infrastructure: Development Lessons From the
West Bank and Gaza." Society for International Development,
Washington, D.C., 1995.
"The Tyranny of Demography: Urban Ethnic Conflict and the
Gerrymander." Association of American Geographers, 1995.
National Science Foundation, Division of Social, Behavioral, and
Economic Research, "Geographical Perspectives on
Democratization Workshop," 1994.
"The Land Component of Urban and Rural Development in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip." NE/DR, U.S.A.I.D., 1994.
"Donor Opportunities and Obstacles for Palestinian
Self-rule." U.S.A.I.D. Occupied Territories Task Force,
1994.
"Problems and Prospects in Devolving Control of State
Land." The Association of American Geographers, 1994.
"Abstract Sovereignty and Territorial Cession, The Take and
Give of Negotiated Delimitation." Political Geography
Specialty Group and the IGU Commission on the World Political
Map, University of Oregon, Eugene, 1994.
"Sustainable Limits and the Israeli/Palestinian
Economy." Elliott School of International Affairs, The
George Washington University, 1994.
"The Geography and Ethnography of Islamic Lands."
George Washington U., 1994.
MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS
Progress in Human Geography, Forest and Conservation History,
Journal of Historical Geography, Geographical Review, Political
Geography, Landscape Journal, Journal of Cultural Geography, Middle East Journal,
Law & Society Review, Rutger's
University Press, Carnegie Foundation, Routledge Press, Rowman and Littlefield
Press, Prentice Hall.
GRANT REVIEWS
National Science Foundation, Oregon Water Resource Research
Institute
PROFESSIONAL AND SERVICE ASSOCIATIONS
Association of American Geographers
American Geographical Society
Middle East Studies Association