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CURRICULUM VITAE Peter A. Walker
Department of Geography 107 Condon Hall 1251 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403-1251 Telephone: (541) 346-4541 E-mail: pwalker@uoregon.edu
EDUCATION
Doctor of Philosophy, Geography, University of California at Berkeley, December 1997. Dissertation: “Roots of Crisis: Population, Environment, and the Social History of Smallholder Tree Planting in Malawi”
Master in Public Policy, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, May 1990. Concentration in environmental policy. Thesis: “Zimbabwe Fuelwood Policy Analysis”
Bachelor of Arts, Economics, University of California at Berkeley, May 1986. Concentration on economic development and environment
RESEARCH INTERESTS
· Human-environment relations · Political and cultural ecology · Cultural geography · Ideas of nature · Western United States, southern Africa
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2004- Associate Professor of Geography and core faculty member in Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
1998-04 Assistant Professor of Geography and core faculty member in Environmental Studies, University of Oregon
1990-92 Assistant Project Director, Harvard Institute for International Development, Malawi Agricultural Research Project / Centre for Social Research, University of Malawi. The project, funded by USAID and the World Bank, aimed to assess the impact of economic liberalization programs on smallholder food security, health, and income.
1989 Intern, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Boston. Co-authored a report recommending methods to improve ground water safety in New England through reduced production of hazardous wastes.
1986-88 U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, Sierra Leone. Project Manager under the Rural Food Production Project of Catholic Relief Services and the Government of Sierra Leone. Directed a farm and 10-person staff that provided high-yielding rice seed to over 150 smallholder households and 60 agricultural extension agents.
Consultancies
2006 Consultant to the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, “Food Security in Malawi: 20 years of change” – a project funded by the International Food Policy Research Institute. Fieldwork in Malawi August/September 2006.
2002 Consultant to the United States Agency for International Development, BASIS II Smallholder Irrigation Research Project, Malawi (administered through Michigan State University). Fieldwork in Malawi, August/September 2001 Consultant to the United States Agency for International Development, BASIS Household Water Access Project, Malawi/Zimbabwe (administered through the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government). Fieldwork in Malawi and Zimbabwe, July/August 1995 Consultant to the United States Agency for International Development, Malawi Environmental Monitoring Program (administered through the Harvard Institute for International Development). Fieldwork in Malawi, August-September
1994 Consultant to the United States Agency for International Development, Malawi Environmental Monitoring Program (administered through the Harvard Institute for International Development). Fieldwork in Malawi, July-August
REPORT Pauline E. Peters, Daimon Kambewa, and Peter Walker, September 2007. The Effects of Increasing Rates of HIV/AIDS-related Illness and Death on Rural Families in Zomba District, Malawi: a Longitudinal Study. For the RENEWAL Program of the International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS Walker, Peter A. 2007. Political Ecology: Where is the Politics? (Review) Progress in Human Geography. 31(3): 363-369 Walker, Peter A., and Pauline E. Peters. 2007. Making sense in time: remote sensing and the challenges of temporal heterogeneity in social analysis of environmental change—cases from Malawi. Human Ecology 35:69-80 Guyer, Jane I. & Eric F. Lambin & Lisa Cliggett & Peter Walker 2007. Temporal Heterogeneity in the Study of African Land Use: Interdisciplinary Collaboration between Anthropology, Human Geography and Remote Sensing. Human Ecology 35:3-17
Walker, Peter A. 2006. How the West was one - American environmentalists, farmers and ranchers learn to say 'Howdy, partner'. Outlook On Agriculture 35 (2):129-135. Walker, Peter A. 2006. Political ecology: where is the policy? (Review) Progress In Human Geography 30 (3):382-395. Walker, Peter A. 2005. Political ecology: where is the ecology? (Review) Progress in Human Geography 29 (1):1-10. Walker, Peter A., and Patrick T. Hurley. 2004. Collaboration derailed: The politics of "community-based" resource management in Nevada County. Society & Natural Resources 17 (8):735-751. Hurley, Patrick T., and Peter A. Walker. 2004. Whose vision? conspiracy theory and land-use planning in Nevada County, California. Environment & Planning A 36 (9):1529-1547. Walker, Peter A. 2004. Roots of crisis: historical narratives of tree planting in Malawi. Historical Geography 32:89-109. Walker, Peter A., Sarah J. Marvin, and Louise P. Fortmann. 2003. Landscape changes in Nevada County reflect social and ecological transitions. California Agriculture 57(4):115-121.
Walker, Peter A. and Louise P. Fortmann. 2003. Whose landscape? A political ecology of the 'exurban' Sierra. Cultural Geographies 10(4):469-491.
Walker, Peter A. 2003. Reconsidering regional political ecologies: toward a political ecology of the rural American West. Progress in Human Geography 27(1):7-24.
Walker, Peter A. and Pauline E. Peters. 2001. Maps, metaphors, and meanings: boundary struggles and village forest use on private and state land in Malawi. Society and Natural Resources 14(5):411-424.
Walker, Peter A. 1999. Democracy and environment: congruencies and contradictions in southern Africa. Political Geography 18(3):257-284.
Walker, Peter A. 1998. Politics of nature: an overview of political ecology. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism 9(1):131-144.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PROGRESS FOR PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Walker, Peter A., Sarah J. Marvin, and Patrick T. Hurley. Four legs good, two legs bad? Exurban ecology in the Sierra Nevada. For submission to Human Ecology
BOOK REVIEWS
Walker, Peter A. (forthcoming). Review of David McDermott Hughes, From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier, 2007
Walker, Peter A. 2001. Review of Richard Schroeder, Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in the Gambia, 1999. Society & Natural Resources 14(3):257-264
Walker, Peter A. 2000. Review of Timothy P. Duane, Shaping the Sierra: Nature, Culture, and Conflict in the Changing West, 1999. Rural Sociology 65(2):342-344
Walker, Peter A. 1996. Review of Sara Berry, No Condition is Permanent, 1993. Capitalism, Nature, and Socialism, 7(3):151-153
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Walker, Peter A. 2003. A Sierra landscape in transition: land use and social change in western Nevada County, California http://geography.uoregon.edu/walker/sierra-report.htm
Smethurst, David, Louise Fortmann, and Peter A. Walker 1998. Changes in El Dorado county land-use and ownership. Oaks ‘n’ Folks: Journal of the University of California Hardwood Range Management Program. 13(2):1-6
Walker, Peter A. 1997. Forestry: southern Africa. In Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, edited by J. Middleton, 2:159-162. New York: Scribners
Walker, Peter A. 1997. Development: policies of structural adjustment. In Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara, edited by J. Middleton, 1:432-435. New York: Scribners
Walker, Peter A. 1991. “Zimbabwe fuelwood policy analysis” in Energy Systems, Environment and Development: A Reader, 449-460. United Nations Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Appropriate Technology Assessment Systems, Issue 6.
Grants, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Harvard University/International Food Policy Research Institute. Co-PI (PI is Pauline Peters, Harvard University) for a project titled “Food Security in Malawi: 20 years of change”. Awarded $57,000 (through Harvard University), January 2006-December 2006.
University of Oregon, CAS College Connections Teaching Award 2006-07, $2,000
University of Oregon, CAS Rippey Innovative Teaching Award 2006-07, $1500
University of Oregon, CAS College Connections Teaching Award 2005-06, $2,000
University of Oregon, CAS Rippey Innovative Teaching Award 2005-06, $1500
University of Oregon, CAS College Connections Teaching Award 2004-05, $2,000
University of Oregon, CAS Rippey Innovative Teaching Award 2004-05, $1500
University of Oregon, Summer Research Award. Awarded $4,500, summer 2004
Bonner Enterprises Research Grant. Awarded $1,500, spring 2004
National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, supplement to “Re-Creating the Sierra: Exurban Ideologies and Landscape Change in Nevada County, California” (#SBR 0001964), $4,049 awarded on September 9, 2003
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Rippey Innovative Teaching Award. Awarded $3,000 over academic years 2003-04 and 2004-05
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Community-Based Collaboratives Research Consortium (administered through the University of Virginia), “Improving the Effectiveness of Community-Based Collaboratives: Tools for Broadening Community Outreach” with Richard Margerum (University of Oregon), PI. Awarded $33,200 June, 2002
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Junior Professorship Development Award for summer 2002. Awarded $1,000, February 2002
National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, Research Experience for Undergraduates supplement to “Re-Creating the Sierra: Exurban Ideologies and Landscape Change in Nevada County, California” (#SBR 0001964), with Aileen Buckley (University of Oregon), Co-PI. Awarded $8,994, FY 2001-2002
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Rippey Innovative Teaching Award. Awarded $3,000 over academic years 2001-02 and 2002-03
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Junior Professorship Development Award for summer 2001. Awarded $1,000, February 2001
National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program, “Re-Creating the Sierra: Exurban Ideologies and Landscape Change in Nevada County, California” (#SBR 0001964), with Aileen Buckley (University of Oregon), Co-PI. Awarded $149,784, July 2000-June 2002 (extended to June 30, 2004)
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Junior Professorship Development Award for summer 2000. Awarded $1,000, February 2000
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Rippey Innovative Teaching Award. Awarded $5,300 (with John Baldwin and Patricia McDowell) over academic years 1999-2000 and 2000-2001
University of Oregon, Summer Research Award. Awarded $4,000, summer 1999
University of Oregon, Department of Geography Kariel Award. Awarded $4,000, summer 1999
University of Oregon, New Faculty Development Award. Awarded $4,000, summer 1998
University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, Junior Professorship Development Award. Awarded $1,000, summer 1998
University of Wisconsin, Madison. Land Tenure Center Travel Fellowship. Awarded $792, June 1998
National Science Foundation, Geography and
Regional Science Program, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, “Population,
Environment, and the Social History
Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1995-1996
Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Macarthur Environmental Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-1996
Wenner-Gren Foundation, Africa Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-1996
Foreign Area and Language Studies Fellowship, United States Department of Education, 1994-1995
University of California Regents Fellowship (supplement to the FLAS), 1994-1995
Social Science Research Council, International Predissertation Fellowship, 1993-94
Harvard University, Kennedy School Grant, 1988-1990
University of California, Regents Fellowship, 1983-1986
schoLarly Presentations
Department of Geography, University of Oregon. ‘Tea seminar’ talk: “AIDS in Africa: Hope, Hype, and the Struggle for Survival in Malawi” (on ongoing field work in Malawi), 11/9/06
Association of American Geographers 2006 annual conference in Chicago. Panelist for “Amenity Migration, Exurbia, and Emerging Rural Landscapes 4: Plenary Panel Discussion” 3/8/06
Association of American Geographers 2006 annual conference in Chicago. Paper presented: “Four legs good, two legs bad? Reconsidering exurban ecology in the Sierra Nevada” in session titled “Amenity Migration, Exurbia, and Emerging Rural Landscapes 2: Socio-Ecological Implications” 3/8/06
San Angelo State University, invited keynote speaker for symposium titled “Environmental Values in A Consumer Society: Valuing the Land in the Land of the Free” Speech title: “Is Environmentalism Dead? Environmental Visions in a Consumer Society”, 10/24/05
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenshaften, invited speaker for the conference titled „Agrarförderung – Motor oder Hemmnis für Innovation im ländlichen Raum?“ Paper title: „Vom ‚Produktivismus’ zur ‚Multifunktionalität’: Beispiele für die Anpassungsfähigkeit von Landnutzungsinstitutionen an neue gesellschaftliche Anforderungen im Westen der USA“ (presented in German), 10/10/05
Auburn “University, invited speaker for the conference titled “Emerging issues along urban/rural interfaces: linking science and society”, sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation. Paper title: “‘Four legs good, two legs bad?’ Re-considering the ecology of rural-residential land use”, 3/15/05
Oregon State University, invited speaker on “‘Four legs good, two legs bad?’ Re-considering the ecology of rural-residential land use” 01/20/05
American Anthropological Association 2003 annual conference in Chicago. Paper title: “Re-Creating Place: Struggles over Landscape and Meaning in the ‘Exurban’ Sierra” 11/22/03
Stanford University, invited speaker for the conference “Time and generation in African land use”, sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation (#SBR 0245289). Paper title: “Conflicting images: the use of remote sensing in a longitudinal study of resource conflicts in Malawi” (one of 13 internationally-invited speakers), 5/28/03-5/30/03
Rutgers University, invited speaker for the conference “Political Ecology at Home”. Paper title: “Reconsidering ‘Regional’ Political Ecologies: Toward a Political Ecology of the Rural American West” (one of 12 invited guest speakers selected nationally), 3/29/03
University of California at Berkeley, Coastal Forest Colloquium. Presentation title: “When What You See Isn’t What You Get: Landscape Transitions in Western Nevada County” by Peter Walker, Sarah Marvin, and Louise Fortmann, 3/25/03
Association of American Geographers 2003 annual conference in New Orleans. Panelist for “Political Ecology in the Regions.” Presentation title: “Why regional political ecologies?” 3/6/03
Association of American Geographers 2003 annual conference in New Orleans. Paper title: “Whose vision? The political ecology of land-use planning in Nevada County, California” with Patrick Hurley, 3/5/03
Oregon State University, Geosciences Department. Invited paper title: “Power, landscape, and the ideologies of ‘Rural Quality’: a political ecology of the ‘exurban’ Sierra” 5/7/02
University of Oregon, Department of Geography. Invited presentation entitled “Power, landscape, and the ideologies of ‘Rural Quality’: a political ecology of the ‘exurban’ Sierra” 4/11/02
Association of American Geographers 2002 annual conference in Los Angeles. Paper title: “Power and the ideologies of rural quality: a political ecology of gentrification in rural Sierra landscape” 3/21/02
Association of American Geographers 2002 annual conference in Los Angeles. Invited panelist for: “Mentoring new faculty geography: Issues and strategies” 3/21/02
Association of American Geographers 2001 annual conference in New York City. Paper title: “Re-Creating the Sierra: Exurban Migration and Property Rights Conflicts in the Sierra Foothills of California” 3/3/01
University of Oregon, Taking Nature Seriously Conference. Invited presentation entitled “Re-creating the Sierra: Exurban Ideologies and Landscape Change in Nevada County, California” 2/27/01
University of Washington (Seattle), Department of Anthropology. Invited presentation entitled “Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings: Boundary Struggles and Village Forest Use on Private and State Land in Malawi” 11/20/00
University of Oregon, Sustainable Business Symposium. Invited panelist for “Sustainability 101” 11/4/00
Biennial conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property 2000 in Bloomington, Indiana. Presentation entitled “Maps, Metaphors, and Meanings: Boundary Struggles and Village Forest Use on Private and State Land in Malawi” 6/4/00
Association of American Geographers 2000 annual conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Paper title: “Re-creating the Sierra: Exurban Ideologies and Rural Land-use Change in Nevada County, California”, 4/6/00
University of Oregon, Sustainable Business Symposium. Invited panelist for “Sustainability 101: Everything You Wanted to Know About Sustainability But Were Afraid To Ask” 11/5/99
Portland State University, Portland, OR, Geography Department Colloquium. Invited presentation entitled “Political Ecology”, 10/7/98
Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Vancouver, British Columbia. Paper title: “Blurring Boundaries: Claiming a Commons on Private and State Land” (co-authored with Pauline Peters), 6/12/98
University of Wisconsin at Madison, Owns America? II: How Land and Resources are Owned and Controlled, a conference of the Land Tenure Center. Paper title: “Preliminary Data from a Comparative Longitudinal Ownership Study in Two California Counties” 6/5/98
Association of American Geographers 1998 annual conference, Boston. Paper title: “Environment and Political Change in Southern Africa”, 3/27/98
Association of American Geographers 1997 annual conference in Ft. Worth, Texas. Paper title: “Roots of Crisis: Population, Environment, and the Social History of Smallholder Tree Planting in Malawi” April
Association of American Geographers 1995 annual conference in Chicago. Paper title: “Gender, Class and Tobacco: The Political Ecology of Smallholder Tree Planting in Southern Malawi” March
SPECIAL CAMPUS PRESENTATIONS
University of Oregon, Humanities 315: Introduction to African Studies. Invited lecture entitled: “Blood Diamonds: Exploitation and Environmental Destruction in Sierra Leone” 5/22/07
University of Oregon, CAS 130 Freshman Social Science Honors Colloquium. Invited lecture entitled: “Roots of Crisis: Historical Narratives of Tree Planting in Malawi” 1/12/04
University of Oregon, Community Conversations Residence Halls Speaker Series. Invited panelist for Honors Hall Advisory Board's panel "Who Should Be President?" 11/12/03
University of Oregon, Humanities 315: Introduction to African Studies. Invited lecture entitled “Congo: the political history of wealth, poverty, and environmental crisis” 5/6/03
University of Oregon, CAS 130 Freshman Honors Colloquium. Invited lecture entitled: “Roots of Crisis: The Social Causes of the Deforestation in Africa” 4/8/03
University of Oregon, Scholars Recognition Day. Invited presentation (with Andrew Marcus) entitled “Human Nature” to Freshman Interest Groups and prospective students and parents 1/31/03
University of Oregon, Humanities 315: Introduction to African Studies. Invited presentation entitled “Environment and Society” 4/18/02
University of Oregon, Humanities 315: Introduction to African Studies. Invited lecture entitled “Post-colonial Development & Human Rights” 5/10/01
University of Oregon, Humanities 315: Introduction to African Studies. Invited lecture entitled “Environment and Democracy in Southern Africa” 5/11/00
University of Oregon, Geography 199: Discover Oregon. Invited lecture entitled “Political Ecology” 2/10/99
University of Oregon, Humanities 315: Introduction to African Studies. Invited lecture entitled “Democracy and environment in Africa” spring 1999
University of Oregon, ENVS 607: Introductory Graduate Seminar. Invited lecture entitled “Re-creating the Sierra” spring 1999
University of Oregon, ENVS 202: Introduction to Environmental Studies, Physical Science. Invited guest lecture: “Myth-conceptions in Science” winter 1999
Courses TAUGHT
Summer 2007:
Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies – Social Sciences
Geography 341: Population and Environment
Spring 2007:
Winter 2007:
Environmental Studies 450/550 Political Ecology
Fall 2006:
Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies—Social Science Geography 462/562: Historical and Contemporary Views of the Environment Environmental Studies 199 College Connections: “The Examined Life” (FIG seminar)
Summer 2006: Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies—Social Science Geography 341: Population and Environment
Spring 2006: Geography 608: Graduate Workshop in Thesis Writing
Geography 462/562: Historical and Contemporary Views of the Environment Environmental Studies 610: Graduate Capstone Seminar
Fall 2005: Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies—Social Science Environmental Studies 607: Graduate Seminar in Political Ecology Environmental Studies 199 College Connections: “Human Nature” (FIG seminar)
Summer 2005: Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies—Social Science Geography 341: Population and Environment
Winter 2005: Environmental Studies 450/550 Political Ecology (28 students) Environmental Studies 605 Directed Reading (1 student) Environmental Studies 607 Introductory Graduate Seminar (5 students) Geography 475/575 Africa: Politics, Development, and Environment (24 students)
Fall 2004: Environmental Studies 201 Introduction to Environmental Studies (211 students) Geography 461/561 Environmental Alteration (instructor of record—45 students) Environmental Studies 199 College Connections: “Footprints we leave” (FIG seminar)
Summer 2004: Environmental Studies 201 Introduction to Environmental Studies (15 students) Geography 341 Population and Environment (21 students)
Spring 2004: Environmental Studies 420/520 Perspectives on Nature and Society (25 students) Environmental Studies 607 Graduate Seminar in Political Ecology (8 students) Geography 462/562 Historical and Contemporary Views of the Environment (19 students)
Fall 2003: Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies (196 students)
Winter 2003: Environmental Studies 450/550: Political Ecology (29 students) Geography 462/562: Historical and Contemporary Views of the Environment (30 students)
Fall 2002: Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies (198 students) Environmental Studies 607: Introductory Graduate Seminar (6 students) Geography 461/561: Environmental alterations (instructor of record)
Winter 2002: Geography 475/575 Africa: Politics, Development, and Environment (20 students) Geography 605: Readings in cultural landscape (1 student)
Fall 2001: Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Environmental Studies (205 students) Environmental Studies 607: Graduate Seminar in Political Ecology (16 students)
Spring 2001: Environmental Studies 605: Ecological Economics (2 students) Environmental Studies 605: Advanced Readings on Contemporary Views of Nature (4 students) Environmental Studies 605: Rural Landscapes of the American West (2 students)
Winter 2001: Environmental Studies 420/520 Perspectives on Nature and Society (22 students) Geography 462/562 Historical and Contemporary Views of the Environment (26 students)
Fall 2000: Environmental Studies 201: Introduction to Env. Studies—Social Sciences (190 students) Environmental Studies 410/510: Political Ecology (24 students)
Geography 409 Practicum (1 student)
Spring 2000: Geography 462/562 Historical and Contemporary Ideas of the Environment (27 students) Geography 605 Graduate Reading and Conference: Sustainable Development (1 student) ENVS 401 Directed Research (1 student)
Winter 2000: ENVS 410/510 Perspectives on Nature and Society (21 students) ENVS 601 Research: Advanced Development Studies (1 student)
Fall 1999: ENVS 201 Introduction to Environmental Studies: Social Sciences (164 students) ENVS 607 Graduate Seminar in Political Ecology (10 students) Geography 601 Research: Globalization and Development (1 student) Geography 605 Reading and Conference: Advanced Political Ecology (1 student)
Spring 1999: Geography 475/575 Geography of Africa: Environment and Development
Winter 1999: ENVS 410/510 Perspectives on Nature and Society ENVS 410/510 Political Ecology
Fall 1998: ENVS 201 Introduction to Environmental Studies: Social Sciences ENVS 399 Special Studies: Advanced Environmental Studies (5 students) ENVS 605 Reading and Conference: Globalization and Development (1 student)
Spring 1998: Geography 410/510: Political Ecology
Winter 1998: ENVS 410/510: Perspectives on Nature and Society
STUDENT Advising 1998-2006
CHAIR OF GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES
· Nurhussein, Safy (Geography), M.A. (in progress) · Laudati, Ann (Geography), Ph.D. (graduated, spring 2007) · Cram, Shannon (Geography), M.A. (graduated, fall 2006) · Neff, Mark (ENVS), M.A. (completed Spring 2006) · Carriere, Jason (ENVS), M.A. (completed Spring 2006) · Rosenberg, Stacy (ENVS and Geography), Ph.D. (completed summer 2005) · Darby, Kate (ENVS), M.A. (completed Spring 2005) · Hurley, Patrick (ENVS and Geography), Ph.D. (completed fall 2004) · Hurley, Daniel (ENVS), M.A. (completed spring 2004) · Rothenberg-Aalami, Jessica (Geography) Ph.D. (completed spring 2002) co-chair · Mansfield, Becky (Geography) Ph.D. (completed spring 2001) co-chair
MEMBER OF GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES Doctoral committees · Vogel, Eve (Geography) Ph.D. (in progress) · Edwards, Ian (Anthropology) Ph.D. (in progress) · Hume, Susan (Geography) Ph.D. (completed spring 2005) · Serralles, Roberto (Geography) Ph.D. (completed fall 2004) · Scott, Gwen (Geography) Ph.D. committee (completed spring 2004) · Leiserowitz, Anthony (ENVS and Geography) Ph.D. (completed fall 2003) · Long, Colin (Geography) Ph.D. (completed spring 2003) · Baldwin, Jeffrey (Geography) Ph.D. (completed spring 2003) (through 2001) · Cassidy, Thomas (Mathematics) Ph.D. (completed spring 1999)
Master’s committees · Branch, Matthew (ENVS) M.A. committee (graduated spring 2006) · Macqueen, Chaun (ENVS) M.A. committee (graduated spring 2006) · Moise, Ian (ENVS) M.A. committee (graduated spring 2005) · Hurley, Patrick (Geography & ENVS) (graduated spring 2002) · Hughes, Gretchen (ENVS) M.A. interim advisor (graduated spring 2002) · Chinitz, Amy (ENVS) M.A. (graduated December 2002) · Deen, Alisha (ENVS) M.A. interim advisor (graduated June 2002) · Thomas, Brian (ENVS) M.A. (graduated June 2001) · Gahin, Randa (ENVS) M.A. (graduated June 2000) · Gyorvary, Sabrina (International Studies) M.A. (graduated June 2000) · Heimerman, Kari (ENVS) M.A. (graduated June 2000) · Madsen, Jeremy (ENVS) M.A. (graduated June 2000) · Sheard, Richard (ENVS) M.A. (graduated June 2000) · Smith, Cheryl (ENVS) M.A. (graduated June 2000) · Noble, Michele (ENVS) M.A. (graduated June 1999) · Niles, Aliscia (PPPM) M.A. (graduated June 1999)
ADVISOR FOR UNDERGRADUATE HONORS THESES · Schairer, Tanya (ENVS) Senior honors thesis advisor (graduated June 2002) · Stein, Megan (ENVS) Senior honors thesis advisor (graduated June 2002) · Gilstrap, Sarah (ENVS) Senior honors thesis advisor (graduated June 2001)
Academic service
2006-2007: · Geography Department human geography faculty search committee, chair · Geography Department undergraduate program director · Environmental Studies executive committee · Environmental Studies steering committee · Environmental Studies undergraduate program committee chair · University of Oregon African Studies committee
2005-2006: · Geography Department human geography faculty search committee, chair · Geography Department undergraduate program director · Environmental Studies executive committee · University of Oregon child care and family support committee · University of Oregon African Studies committee
2004-2005:
· Geography Department Undergraduate Program Director · Geography Department Personnel Committee · Environmental Studies Graduate Admissions Committee · Environmental Studies Executive Committee · Environmental Studies Social Sciences Curriculum Review Committee · Geography Department Spring term Seminar Series coordinator · University of Oregon Child Care and Family Support Committee · University of Oregon African Studies Committee
2003-2004: · Geography Department Undergraduate Program Director · Environmental Studies Executive Committee · Environmental Studies Ph.D. Admissions Committee · Environmental Studies Graduate Program Committee · University of Oregon Child Care and Family Support Committee · University of Oregon African Studies Committee · Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship Program, national proposal reviewer
2002-2003: · Environmental Studies Executive Committee · Environmental Studies Faculty Search Committee · Environmental Studies Ph.D. Admissions Committee · Geography Department Graduate Fellowships Coordinator · University of Oregon African Studies Committee · University of Oregon Sustainable Livelihoods Research Group · University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, “Septemberfest” for undeclared majors, co-representative for the Department of Geography · University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences “Major Decisions” Fair, co-representative for the Department of Geography
2001-2002: · Environmental Studies Executive Committee · Environmental Studies Ph.D. Admissions Committee · Geography Department Undergraduate Program Co-Director · University of Oregon African Studies Committee · University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences, “Septemberfest” for undeclared majors, co-representative for the Department of Geography · University of Oregon, College of Arts and Sciences “Major Decisions” Fair, co-representative for the Department of Geography · Organizer and chair of a special session of the Association of American Geographers annual conference: “First World Rural Political Ecology”
2000-2001: · Environmental Studies Executive Committee · Environmental Studies Pathways Committee · Environmental Studies Ph.D. Admissions Committee · Geography Department Undergraduate Program Co-Director · Geography Department Trussell Scholarship Committee · Department of Geography, Ad Hoc Committee on Graduate Student Summer Research Awards · University of Oregon African Studies Committee · Oregon Humanities Center, ad hoc committee for “Engaging Africa” symposium · Economics Department faculty search committee advisor representing Environmental Studies
1999-2000: · Environmental Studies Executive Committee · Environmental Studies Pathways Committee · Geography Department Faculty Search Committee · Geography Department Library Representative · University of Oregon African Studies Committee · University of Oregon Center for the Study of Women in Society, Ecological Conversations Advisory Committee · University of Oregon Institute for a Sustainable Environment, Oregon Sustainable Development Awards Committee
1998-1999: · Environmental Studies Curriculum Committee · Environmental Studies Graduate Admissions Committee · Geography Department Faculty Search Committee · Geography Department UO Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee · University of Oregon African Studies Committee · Undeclared student adviser (Week of Welcome)
Winter and spring terms 1998: · Environmental Studies Curriculum Committee · Environmental Studies Graduate Admissions Committee · Geography Department Charitable Fund Drive Coordinator · Geography Department ITDF/Sasakawa Fellowship Committee · Geography Department UO Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship Committee
CAMPUS EVENTS ORGANIZED
Organizer for guest speaker Chief Makungula (a group area chief in Malawi) on “The Challenge of Democracy in Southern Africa: A Chief’s Perspective” April 4, 2002 (an event jointly sponsored by the Department of Geography, the African Studies Committee, and the Dance Department)
Organizer for guest speaker William G. Robbins, Professor of History, Oregon State University, “Capitalism Redux: Thinking Beyond the Critics”, January 24, 2002 (a lecture in the Geography Department’s ‘Tea’ Seminar)
Organizer for guest speaker Richard Schroeder, Associate Professor of Geography, Rutgers University, on “Distributive Justice: ‘Community-Based’ Wildlife Management in Tanzania”, October 25, 2001 (an event jointly sponsored by the Department of Geography, the Environmental Studies Program, and the African Studies Program)
Organizer for guest speaker Beverly Brown, Director of the Jefferson Center, "Beyond 'Jobs vs. Owls': Livelihoods and Environmental Conflict in Southern Oregon”, February 12, 1998 (an event jointly sponsored by the Department of Geography and the Environmental Studies program)
community & public SERVICE
News article in The Union (Grass Valley/Nevada City, California), “We’re of two minds on growth issue”, by Doug Mattson (reporting on Walker, Peter A., 2003. A Sierra Landscape In Transition: Land Use and Social Change in Western Nevada County, California http://geography.uoregon.edu/walker/sierra-report.htm), 2/22/03, page 1; see also http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73128575934712&Avis=TU&Dato=20030222&Kategori=NEWS&Lopenr=102220096&Ref=AR
Op-Ed article in The Union (Grass Valley/Nevada City, California), “Controlled Growth is What Most of Us Want” 3/1/03 (editor’s comments on Walker, Peter A., 2003. A Sierra Landscape In Transition: Land Use and Social Change in Western Nevada County, California http://geography.uoregon.edu/walker/sierra-report.htm ); see also http://www.theunion.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?SearchID=73128575934712&Avis=TU&Dato=20030301&Kategori=OPINION&Lopenr=103010088&Ref=AR
Invited presentation (through the University of Oregon Speakers’ Bureau): “The Coming Famine in Southern Africa, and What We Can Do to Help” to the Springfield Rotary Club, DoubleTree Hotel, November 6, 2002
Invited lecture: “Zimbabwe and Land Ownership” to the Oregon High School International Relations League Fall Conference, 22 October, 2002 at University of Oregon ERB Memorial Union
Invited lecture: “Debt Relief in Africa”, February 18, 2001, Eugene First United Methodist Church, ‘Children of Africa’ lecture series
Invited article “Makah whaling is also a political issue” The Ecotone: The Journal of Environmental Studies, The University of Oregon fall 1999, pp. 8-10
Invited article “When the beach is clean, the hard work begins” The Ecotone: The Journal of Environmental Studies, The University of Oregon summer 1999, p. 6
Invited Op-Ed Article in The Register Guard (Eugene, OR) on Makah Whaling, June 2, 1999
Invited Op-Ed Article in The Oregonian (Portland, OR) on violence in Africa, March 6, 1999
other professional service 1998-2007
Progress in Human Geography (journal)—article review, 2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada—proposal reviewer, 2007 Current Anthropology (journal)—article review
African Studies Quarterly (journal)—article review Agroforestry Systems (journal)—article review Conservation Biology (journal)—article review Geoforum (journal)—article review (2004) Journal of Environmental Management—article review Journal of Rural Studies—article review National Science Foundation, Geography and Regional Science Program—grant proposal review Society & Natural Resources (journal)—article review
Professional society Memberships
Association of American Geographers (since 1994) American Society for Environmental History (since 1998) American Association for the Advancement of Science (since 1998) Phi Beta Kappa, University of Oregon Chapter (since 1999)
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