Richard A. Schroeder
Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor of Geography
School of Arts and Sciences
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
77 Hamilton Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-1248
Office: (848) 932-6414
Fax: (732) 932-5150
[email protected]
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Education
Degrees
Ph.D., Geography, University of California-Berkeley, 1993.
M.S., Land Resources, Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1985.
B.A., Religion and Germanics, summa cum laude, Macalester College, Minnesota, 1978.
Semester abroad, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 1977.
Employment History
Academic Positions
Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 2013-present
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 1999-2013
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 1993-1999
Administrative Positions
Dean of Social Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, 2015-present
Chair, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 2011-2015
Undergraduate Program Director, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 2011-2012
Executive Committee Member and Finance Committee Chair, Board of Directors, African Studies
Association (elected position), 2009-2012
Associate Director, Center for African Studies, 2007-2009
Graduate Director, Department of Geography, Rutgers University, 2002-2005
Director (founding), Center for African Studies, Rutgers University, 1998-2001
Food Production Specialist/Program Manager, Save the Children Federation, The Gambia, 1986-1988
Program Analyst, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 1986
Director, Peace Corps/The Gambia, Health and Rural Cooperatives Extension Training, 1983
Consultant, Peace Corps Ag Extension Training, A.L. Nellum & Associates, Washington, D.C., 1982
Coordinator, Extension Training, Peace Corps, Rice Production Program, Sierra Leone. 1980
Peace Corps Volunteer/Extension Agent, Ministry of Agriculture, Sierra Leone, 1978-1980
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Selected Administrative Service, Rutgers University
Co-convenor, Departmental Chairs’ Caucus, School of Arts and Sciences, 2013-2015
Chair, Tenure and Promotion Grievance Committee, School of Arts and Sciences, 2014
Rutgers Representative, Departmental Executive Officer Seminar, Consortium for Institutional
Cooperation, 2013
Member, School of Arts and Sciences Appointments & Promotions Committee, 2003-2005, 2008-2010
Member, School of Arts and Sciences International Studies Committee, 2007-2009
Executive Committee Member, Center for African Studies, 2006-2012
Chair, Livingston College Curriculum Committee, 1999-2000
Executive Council Member, Graduate School (elected position), 1998-2000
Executive Committee Member, Livingston College Fellows, 1997-2000
Member, Livingston College Curriculum Committee, 1995-1996
Member, Graduate School Social Science Area Committee, 1995-1997
Chair, Junior Faculty Mentoring Committees (four faculty), 2004Faculty Search Committees, 2004 (biogeography position), 2006 (chair, South Asian Studies position)
Faculty Enhanced Salary (merit pay) review committee, 1999-2004, 2006-2009
Awards, Fellowships and Honors
Scholarly Excellence
Association of American Geographers’ Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in
Geography, 2012
Teaching
Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools, Doctoral Teaching Award, 2014
Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Graduate School-New Brunswick, Rutgers University, 2011
Lilly Endowment Teaching Excellence Fellowship, Rutgers University, 1995
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Geography, University of California-Berkeley,
1993
Graduate Awards and Fellowships
Best Student Paper, Cultural Ecology, Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers, 1992
University Regents Fellowship, University of California-Berkeley, 1992
Title VI Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship in African Studies: University of California-Berkeley,
Mandinka Language, 1989
Title VI Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship in African Studies: University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Hausa Language, 1983, 1984
Undergraduate Honors
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Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society, 1978
Delta Phi Alpha National Germanics Honor Society, 1978
Leland Case History Prize, Macalester College, 1978
Funding
Externally Funded-Program Grants
US Department of Education Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, Principal Investigator, Rutgers Center for African Studies, 2001-2002 ($155,301)
US Department of Education Title VI Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language
Program, Principal Investigator, Rutgers Center for African Studies, 1999-2000 ($175,654)
Ford Foundation, “Unmapping the Myths: Distinguished African Women Scholars-in-Residence
Program,” Principal Investigator, Rutgers Center for African Studies, 1999 ($120,921)
Internally Funded-Program Grants
Student Computing Fee Initiatives, Dept. of Geography, Rutgers University, 2015 ($29,905; w/J. Nunez)
Student Computing Fee Initiatives, Dept. of Geography, Rutgers University, 2014 ($23,500; w/J. Nunez)
Student Computing Fee Initiatives, Dept. of Geography, Rutgers University, 2013 ($18,614; w/J. Nunez)
Student Computing Fee Initiatives, Dept. of Geography, Rutgers University, 2012 ($17,780; w/J. Nunez)
International Programs Global Initiatives Speaker Series, Rutgers University, 2009 ($500)
Reinvest in Rutgers Program, Principal Investigator, Rutgers Center for African Studies, 2001 ($15,000)
Strategic Resources Opportunity Analysis Project, Principal Investigator, Rutgers Center for African
Studies, 2000 ($45,000)
Reinvest in Rutgers Program, Principal Investigator, Rutgers Center for African Studies, 2000 ($20,000)
Strategic Resources Opportunity Analysis Project, Principal Investigator, Rutgers Center for African
Studies, 1999 ($40,000)
Externally Funded-Research Grants/Fellowships
Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Grant, 2005-2006 ($106,400)
Association of American Geographers Anne U. White Grant (with D. Hodgson), 2000 ($1,500)
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Award, 1991 ($16,990)
National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, 1991 ($5,200)
Social Science Research Council/ACLS, International Doctoral Research Fellowship for Africa, 1991
($3,100)
Externally Funded-Student Grants/Fellowships
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Program, 2012 (student co-PI, Amelia Duffy-Tumasz; $16,000).
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Program, 2011 (student co-PI, Abidah Setyowati; $11,320).
UNDP Asia-Pacific Academic Fellowship, 2011 (student co-PI, Abidah Setyowati; $10,000).
USDA Forest Service, 2004-2008 (PI: PhD funding for student graduate assistant, Elizabeth Barron;
$83,476)
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Internally Funded-Research Grants/Fellowships
Research Council Grant, Rutgers University, 2007 ($1,500)
Research Council Grant, Rutgers University, 2004 ($2,700)
Research Council Grant, Rutgers University, 2000 ($1,000)
Research Council Grant, Rutgers University, 1998 ($2,700)
Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture Faculty Research Fellowship, Rutgers University
(half-time leave), 1997.
Research Council Grant, Rutgers University, 1997 ($1,600)
Research Council Grant, Rutgers University, 1995 ($1,700)
Rocca Memorial Scholarship for Advanced African Studies, UC Berkeley, 1992 ($3,000)
Rocca Memorial Scholarship for Advanced African Studies, UC Berkeley, 1991 ($1,000)
Publications
Books
Schroeder, R. (2012). Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race and Nation in Tanzania. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press (227 pp). (Winner, Association of American Geographers’ Meridian Book
Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography, 2012)
Broch-Due, V. and R. Schroeder, eds. (2000). Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa. Uppsala, Sweden:
Nordic Institute for African Studies (350 pp).
Schroeder, R. (1999). Shady Practices: Agroforestry and Gender Politics in The Gambia. Berkeley:
University of California Press (172 pp). (Excerpted in Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial
African Issues, William Moseley, ed. Guilford, CT: McGraw Hill, 2004, 282-291).
Gibbons, M. and R. Schroeder. (1983). Agricultural Extension. Washington, DC: Peace Corps Office of
Information Collection and Exchange (309 pp).
Menard, P., R. Schroeder, I. Abdul-Ghani, and L. Nelson. (1983). Agricultural Development Workers’
Training Manual, Vol. 4, Extension Skills. Washington, DC: Peace Corps Office of Information Collection
and Exchange (193 pp).
Special Journal Issues Edited
Schroeder, R., K. St. Martin, B. Wilson, and D. Sen, eds. (2008). “Third World Environmental Justice:
Expanding the Environmental Justice Agenda.” Society and Natural Resources 21, 7.
Schroeder, R., K. St. Martin, and K. Albert, eds. (2006). “Political Ecology in North America:
Discovering the Third World Within?” Geoforum 37, 2.
Neumann, R. and R. Schroeder, eds. (1995). “Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global
Environmental Agendas.” Antipode 27, 4.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Schroeder, R. (under review) “Moving Targets: The ‘Canned’ Hunting of Captive-bred Lions in South
Africa.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
Schroeder, R. (2010). “Tanzanite as Conflict Gem: Certifying a Secure Commodity Chain in Tanzania.”
Geoforum 41, 1: 56-65.
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Neimark, B. and R. Schroeder. (2009). “Hotspots Discourse in Africa: Making Space for Bioprospecting in
Madagascar.” African Geographical Review 28: 33-59.
Schroeder, R. (2008). “Environmental Justice and the Market: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Revenues
in Tanzania.” Society and Natural Resources 21, 7: 583-596.
Schroeder, R. (2008). “South African Capital in the Land of Ujamaa: Contested Terrain in Tanzania.”
African Sociological Review 12, 1: 20-34. (Edited version with photos available on-line at
http://www.africafiles.org/article.asp?ID=19013).
Hodgson, D. and R. Schroeder. (2002). “Dilemmas of Counter-mapping Community Resources in
Tanzania.” Development and Change 33, 1: 79-100.
Schroeder, R. (1999). “Community, Forestry and Conditionality in The Gambia.” Africa 69, 1: 1-22.
(Reprinted in Communities and Conservation: Histories and Politics of Community-Based Natural
Resource Management, J. Peter Brosius, Anna Tsing and Charles Zerner, eds. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira
Press, 2005. Also reprinted in Contesting Forestry in West Africa, R. Cline-Cole and C. Madge, eds.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2000, 148-172).
Schroeder, R. (1999). “Geographies of Environmental Intervention in Africa.” Progress in Human
Geography 23, 3: 359-378.
Schroeder, R. (1997). “‘Re-claiming’ Land in The Gambia: Gendered Property Rights and Environmental
Intervention.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 87, 3: 487-508. (Reprinted in
Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa, V. Broch-Due and R. Schroeder, eds. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic
Institute for African Studies, 2000, 268-294. Also reprinted and translated into Japanese in H. Kamiya, ed.
Anthology of Feminist Geography. Tokyo: Kokon-Shoin, 2002).
Schroeder, R. (1996). “‘Gone to Their Second Husbands’: Marital Metaphors and Conjugal Contracts in
The Gambia’s Female Garden Sector.” Canadian Journal of African Studies 30, 1: 69-87. (Forthcoming in
The Gender, Culture and Power Reader, D. Hodgson, ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in
Readings in Gender in Africa, Andrea Cornwall, ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005, 111118. Also reprinted in Wicked Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa, D. Hodgson and S.
McCurdy, eds. Portsmouth, Maine: Heinemann Press, 2001, 85-105.).
Schroeder, R. (1995). “Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization:
Foresting Gambian Gardens.” Antipode 27, 4: 325-342. (Reprinted in Changing Life, P. Taylor, S. Halfon
and P. Edwards, eds. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997, 85-101).
Schroeder, R. (1993). “Shady Practice: Gender and the Political Ecology of Resource Stabilization in
Gambian Garden/Orchards.” Economic Geography 69, 4: 349-365.
Chapters in Books
Schroeder, R. (2000). “Beyond Distributive Justice: Environmental Justice and Resource Extraction.” In
People, Plants and Justice: Resource Extraction and Conservation in Tropical Developing Countries, C.
Zerner, ed., 52-64. New York: Columbia University Press.
Schroeder. R. (2000). “Producing Nature and Poverty in Africa: Continuity and Change.” In Producing
Nature and Poverty in Africa, V. Broch-Due and R. Schroeder, eds., 340-348. Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic
Institute for African Studies.
Schroeder, R. and K. Suryanata. (1996). “Gender and Class Power in Agroforestry: Case Studies from
Indonesia and West Africa.” In Liberation Ecology: Environment, Development, Social Movements, R.
Peet and M. Watts, eds., 299-315. London: Routledge.
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Schroeder, R. and M. Watts. (1991). “Struggling Over Strategies, Fighting Over Food: Commercialization
among Mandinka Peasants in The Gambia.” In Research in Rural Sociology and Development, Vol. 5,
Household Strategies, H. Schwarzweller and D. Clay, eds., 45-72. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press.
Editorials and Commentaries
Schroeder, R. (2009). Commentary on Bjorn Sletto’s “‘We Drew What We Imagined’: Participatory
Mapping, Performance and the Arts of Landscape Making.” Current Anthropology 50, 4: 469-470.
Schroeder, R., K. St. Martin, B. Wilson, and D. Sen. (2008). “Third World Environmental Justice.” (Guest
editors’ introduction to special issue). Society and Natural Resources 21, 7: 547-555.
Schroeder, R., K. St. Martin, and K. Albert. (2006). “Political Ecology in North America: Discovering the
Third World Within?” (Guest editors' introduction to special issue). Geoforum 37, 2: 163-168
Schroeder, R. (2005). “Debating the Place of Political Ecology in the First World.” Environment and
Planning A 37, 6: 1045-1048.
Schroeder, R. and R. Neumann. (1995). “Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global
Environmental Agendas.” (Guest editors’ introduction to special issue). Antipode 27, 4: 321-324.
Reviews
Schroeder, R. (2002). Review of J. Oates, Myth and Reality in the Rain Forest: How Conservation
Strategies Are Failing in West Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press. American Ethnologist 29,
1: 188-189.
Schroeder, R. (2002). Review of P. Woodhouse, H. Bernstein, and D. Hulme, eds., African Enclosures?
The Social Dynamics of Wetlands in Drylands. Oxford: James Currey. African Affairs 101, 403: 263-264.
Schroeder, R. (1996). Review of M. Leach, Rainforest Relations: Gender and Resource Use among the
Mende of Gola Sierra Leone. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. Gender Place and Culture
3, 3: 342-344.
Other Publications
Lake, R., S. Hanson, S. Bagchi-Sen, R. Cline-Cole, J. DeFilippis, M. Douglass, J. Emel, R. Johns, V.
Lawson, M. Leaf, R. Leichenko, S. Marston, T. McGee, K. Pandit, S. Pincetl, R. Schroeder, E. Sheppard,
and M. Waterstone. (2000). “Towards a Comprehensive Geographical Perspective on Urban
Sustainability.” Final Report of the 1998 National Science Foundation Workshop on Urban Sustainability.
Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University.
Schroeder, R. (1986). “Gender Vulnerability to Drought: A Case Study of the Hausa (Nigeria/Niger)
Social Environment.” Natural Hazards Research Working Paper No. 58, Institute of Behavioral Science,
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado (64 pp).
Works in Progress
Schroeder, R. and J. Isaacs. “Remote Control: Conservation Surveillance and Technologies of Power.”
For Geography Compass.
Schroeder, R. “Greening the Hunt in Southern Africa.” For Another Geography is Possible: The
Influences of Michael Watts, ed. By Sharad Chari, et al.
Lectures and Presentations
Keynote and Plenary Addresses
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Keynote Speaker. Penn State University. “Mining for Justice in Tanzania.” Geographies of Justice
Conference. Department of Geography, 2011.
Plenary Discussant. Rutgers University. “Global Goods: Changing Perspectives on Trade, Human Rights
and the Environment.” Junior Scholars Workshop, 2009.
Distinguished Lecturer in Environmental Studies. Macalester College. “Environmental Justice and the
Market: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Revenues in Tanzania.” Departments of Environmental Studies
and Geography, 2003.
Plenary Discussant. University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Globalization and Geographies of Conservation
Conference.” Environment and Development Advanced Research Circle (EDARC), 2002.
University Lecturer. University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Debating Distributive Environmental Justice:
The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Wealth in Tanzania.” University Lecture Series, 2002.
Keynote Speaker. Michigan State University. “Shady Practices: Gender and Agroforestry Politics in The
Gambia.” Gender, Justice and Environmental Policy Distinguished Speaker Series, 2000.
Nodal Paper. University of Georgia. “Community, Forestry and Conditionality in The Gambia.” Ford
Foundation conference, “Representing Communities: History and Practice of Community-based Natural
Resource Management,” 1997.
Keynote Speaker. Rutgers University. “Environmental Issues in Developing Countries.” Hubert H.
Humphrey Symposium, Department of Urban Planning and Policy Development, 1994.
Invited Lectures
University of Washington, “Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania.”
Department of Geography, 2013.
Macalester College, “Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race, and Nation in Tanzania.” Department of
Geography, 2013.
Florida International University. “The Job Hunt: Joining the Ranks.” Department of Global and
Sociocultural Studies, 2011.
Virginia Tech University. “Whiteness and Crisis in Africa.” Conference Theme: “Whiteness beyond the
West.” Departments of History and Africana Studies, 2011.
West Virginia University. “Africa after Apartheid: Contesting South African Mining Capital in Tanzania.”
Department of Geology and Geography, 2011.
Temple University. “Tiffany’s, Terrorists and Tanzanite: Constructing Ethical Routes to Market for
Tanzania’s National Gem.” Department of Geography and Urban Studies, 2010.
Florida International University. “White Spots: South African Capital and Racialized Enclaves in
Tanzania.” Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, 2009.
University of Kansas. “Mining the Maasai Motif: Gemstone Marketing and Locality in Tanzania.” African
Studies Center, 2008.
University of Maine-Farmington. “Tiffany’s, Terrorists and Tanzanite: Constructing Ethical Routes to
Market for Tanzania’s National Gem.” Contemporary Africa Lecture Series, 2008.
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. “Tiffany’s, Terrorists and Tanzanite: Constructing Ethical
Routes to Market for Tanzania’s National Gem.” Conference Theme: “The Changing Nature(s) of Land:
Property, Peasants and Agricultural Production in a Global World.” Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar,
2007.
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University of Kentucky. “Commodity Cleansing: Corporate Strategies to Polish a Conflict Gem in
Tanzania.” Conference Theme: “Transparency and Democracy in Certified and Ethical Commodity
Networks.” Gaines Center for the Humanities, 2007.
Yale University. “The Moral Economy of a Mine: Contesting South African Control of Tanzania’s
National Gemstone.” Program in Agrarian Studies, 2007.
University of Dar es Salaam. “Foreign Investment in Tanzania: Exploring the South African Connection.”
Department of Geography, 2005.
Hakikazi Catalyst. “South African Investment in Tanzania in the Post-Apartheid Era.” Monthly
Development Workers’ Seminar, Arusha, Tanzania, 2005.
Kutztown University. “Environmental Justice and the Market: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Revenues
in Tanzania.” International Studies Program, 2004.
Barnard College. “Environmental Justice and the Market: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Revenues in
Tanzania.” Anthropology Department, 2003.
Clark University. “Environmental Justice and the Market: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Revenues in
Tanzania.” Department of Geography, 2003.
Stanford University. “Debating Distributive Justice: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Wealth in Tanzania.”
African and African American Studies Program, 2002.
University of Washington. “Debating Distributive Justice: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Wealth in
Tanzania.” Department of Geography, 2002.
University of California-Berkeley. “Debating Distributive Environmental Justice: The Politics of Sharing
Wildlife Wealth in Tanzania.” Environmental Politics Colloquium, Institute for International Studies,
2002.
University of Calfornia-Berkeley. “Dilemmas of Counter-Mapping Community Resources in Tanzania.”
Department of Geography, 2002.
University of California-Santa Cruz. “Debating Distributive Environmental Justice: The Politics of
Sharing Wildlife Wealth in Tanzania.” Department of Anthropology, 2002.
University of Oregon. “Wildlife Wars: Beyond Distributive Justice in Tanzania.” Department of
Geography, 2001.
University of California-Los Angeles. “Wildlife Wars: Beyond Distributive Justice in Tanzania.”
Department of Geography, 2001.
Stanford University. “Wildlife Wars: Beyond Distributive Justice in Tanzania.” Center for African
Studies, 2001.
University of Minnesota. “Wildlife Wars: Contesting Community-based Conservation in Tanzania.”
Department of Geography, 2001.
University of California-Los Angeles. “Shady Practices: Gender and Agroforestry Politics in The
Gambia.” Department of Geography, 2000.
Columbia University. “Shady Practices: Gender and Agroforestry Politics in The Gambia.” African
Studies Center, 2000.
Oxford University (UK). “Mapping the Maasai: Counter-mapping Dilemmas in Tanzania.” (with D.
Hodgson). Conference Theme: “African Environments: Past and Present,” 1999.
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Rainforest Alliance, New York. “Beyond Distributive Justice: Environmental Justice and Resource
Extraction,” People, Plants and Justice Workshop, Natural Resources and Rights Program, 1998.
University of Illinois. “Dearth and Diversity: Dilemmas of Community Resource Management in Africa.”
Department of Geography, 1998.
Nordic Institute for African Studies. “‘Re-claiming’ Land in The Gambia: Gendered Property Rights and
Environmental Intervention.” Conference Theme: “Poverty and Environment in Africa.” Skytteholm,
Sweden, 1997.
University of Uppsala. “Shady Practices in Agroforestry: Gender, Environment and Development in The
Gambia.” Nordic Institute for African Studies, 1997.
Clark University. “Counter-mapping Dilemmas in Maasailand.” Department of Geography, 1997.
New York University. “Shady Practices in Agroforestry: Gender, Environment and Development in The
Gambia.” Draper Program in Liberal Studies, 1997.
Brown University. “Natural Tendencies: Co-opting Gender and the Environment in The Gambia.” World
Hunger Program, 9th Annual Hunger Research Briefing and Exchange, 1996.
Michigan State University. “Natural Developments: Co-optation of the Gender/ Environment Critique.”
Michigan International Development Educational Outreach Network, 1995.
Dartmouth College. “Gender/Environment Conflicts in Gambian Agroforestry.” Departments of
Geography, History and Environmental Studies, 1995.
Ford Foundation, New York. “Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental
Stabilization,” People, Rights and Resources Seminar, 1993.
University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Branching into Old Territory: Trees and Gendered Tenure in The
Gambia’s Garden/Orchards.” Land Tenure Center, 1991.
Conference Presentations
“Making the African Rugby Pitch.” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Baltimore, 2013.
“White Spots: South African Capital and Racialized Enclaves in Tanzania.” European Conference on
African Studies, Lisbon, Portugal, 2013.
“Author Meets Critics: Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race and Nation in Tanzania.” Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 2013.
“White Man’s Burden: South African National Identity in Post-apartheid Africa.” Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, New York, 2012.
“Apartheid’s Legacy in a Frontline State: South African Investors and Race Relations in Tanzania.”
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, 2011.
“Frontline Memories: The Legacies of Southern African Liberation in Contemporary Tanzania.” Annual
Meeting of the African Studies Association, Washington, DC, 2011.
“White Spots: South African Capital and Racialized Enclaves in Tanzania.” Annual Meeting of the
African Studies Association, New Orleans, 2010.
“Hear No Evil? Interviewing the Powerful.” (Panelist) Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, Las Vegas, 2009.
“Mining Local Meanings: Gemstone Marketing and Corporate Responsibility in Tanzanian Maasailand.”
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, 2009.
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“White Spots: South African Capital and Racialized Enclaves in Tanzania.” Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, Boston, 2008.
“Tiffany’s, Terrorists and Tanzanite: Constructing Ethical Routes to Market for Tanzania’s National
Gem.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, 2007.
“The Moral Economy of a Mine: Contesting South African Control of Tanzania’s National Gem.” Annual
Meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco, 2006.
“Hunting for Nature: Green Hunts, Canned Hunts and Regulation of the Safari Industry in Southern
Africa.” Association of American Geographers, Development Studies Specialty Group Conference,
Boulder, 2005.
“South Africans in Tanzania: Boundaries of Race and Nation in the Post-apartheid Era.” Annual Meeting
of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, 2005.
“Remembering the Time of Julius: Using a Proud Past to Contest Contemporary South African
Investments in Tanzania.” Annual New York Area African History Conference, Rutgers University, 2005.
“Hunting for Nature: Green Hunts, Canned Hunts and Regulation of the Safari Industry in Southern
Africa.” Rutgers/Princeton Anthropogenic Environments Conference. New Brunswick, NJ, 2004.
“Hunting for Nature: Green Hunts, Canned Hunts and Regulation of the Safari Industry in Southern
Africa.” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. New Orleans, 2004.
“Environmental Justice and the Market: The Politics of Sharing Wildlife Revenues in Tanzania.”
Environmental Justice Abroad Conference, Rutgers University, 2004.
“Debating Distributive Justice: Sharing Wildlife Wealth with Rural Communities in Tanzania.” Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, 2002.
“Debating Distributive Justice: Sharing Wildlife Wealth with Rural Communities in Tanzania.” Annual
Meeting of the African Studies Association, Houston, 2001.
“Mapping the Maasai: Counter-mapping Dilemmas in Tanzania” (with D. Hodgson). Annual Meeting of
the Association of American Geographers. Honolulu, 1999.
“Mapping the Maasai: Counter-mapping Dilemmas in Tanzania” (with D. Hodgson), Annual Meeting of
the African Studies Association. Chicago, 1998.
“‘Re-claiming’ Land in The Gambia: Gendered Property Rights and Environmental Intervention.” Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Fort Worth, 1997.
“Counter-mapping Dilemmas in Maasailand.” Annual Meeting of the Common Property Association.
Rutgers University, 1997.
“Community, Forestry and Conditionality in The Gambia.” Annual Meeting of the African Studies
Association. San Francisco, 1996.
“‘Re-claiming’ Land in The Gambia: Gendered Property Rights and Environmental Intervention.” Annual
Meeting of the African Studies Association. Orlando, 1995.
“Co-opted Critiques: Gender, Environment and Development Discourse.” Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association. Washington, D.C. 1995.
“Better Homes and Gardens: Women’s Work and the Irrigation Transition in Gambian Agriculture.”
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Chicago, 1995.
“‘Gone to Their Second Husbands’: Marital Metaphors and Conjugal Contracts in the Gambia’s Female
Garden Sector.” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Toronto, 1994.
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“Contradictions along the Commodity Road to Environmental Stabilization.” Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers. San Francisco, 1994.
“Bounded Enthusiasm: Fencing in Female Labor in The Gambia.” Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers. Atlanta, 1993.
“Shady Practice: Trees, Vegetables and Gendered Tenure in The Gambia’s Garden/Orchards.” Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. San Diego, California, 1992.
“Defending a Female Cash Crop: Threats to The Gambia’s Market Garden Boom.” National Workshop on
Horticultural Programming in Rural Gambia. Banjul, The Gambia, 1991.
“Of Boycotts and Bolongs: Vegetable Marketing on the North Bank.” National Workshop on Horticultural
Programming in Rural Gambia. Banjul, The Gambia, 1991.
“Origins of the Garden Boom and Its Economic Impact on Rural Gambia.” National Workshop on
Horticultural Programming in Rural Gambia. Banjul, The Gambia, 1991.
Discussant for Conference Sessions
“African Conservation Landscapes: Emerging Trends and Contending Debates.” Annual Meeting of the
African Studies Association, Baltimore, 2013.
“Extinction Encounters: Vanishing Forms, Human Rights and the Ethics of Retrieval.” Department of
Anthropology/Center for Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University, 2008.
“Environmental Rights in Madagascar,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New York,
2007.
“Culture, Community, Nature and Power in Changing Ecologies.” Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers. Los Angeles, 2002.
“African Realities and Global Environment-Development Discourse,” Annual Meeting of the African
Studies Association. Nashville, 2000.
“Post-Structuralist Political Ecologies,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers.
Pittsburgh, 2000.
“Political Ecologies of Wildlife Management,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association.
Philadelphia, 1999.
“Livelihoods and Landscapes in Transition: Cultural and Political Ecologies of Dryland Environments,”
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Honolulu, 1999.
“Political Ecology and Environmental Justice,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers. Chicago, 1995.
Rutgers University Internal Presentations
“Book Launch: Africa after Apartheid: South Africa, Race and Nation in Tanzania.” Department of
Geography.
“Darwin’s Nightmare.” Discussant, Reel Africa Film Series, 2009.
“Making the African Rugby Pitch: Marking Race, Nation and Masculinity in Tanzania.” Gender, Ethnicity
and Race: Global Perspectives. Institute for Research on Women/Center for Race and Ethnicity, 2008.
“Wildlife Wars: Beyond Distributive Justice in Tanzania.” Department of Geography Symposium Series,
2002.
“Political Ecology.” Human Dimensions of Environmental Change Certificate Course, 1999.
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“Dearth and Diversity: Dilemmas of Community Resource Management in Africa.” Joint session of the
Department of Geography Symposium Series and the African Studies Lecture Series, 1997.
“A New Manifest Destiny: Environmental Intervention in Africa.” Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture, 1996.
“Shady Practice in Gambian Agroforestry: The Politics of Environmental Intervention.” Human Ecology
Symposium Series, 1995.
Rutgers University Professional Development Seminars
“Consortium for Institutional Cooperation Department Executive Officers Training – Briefing.”
Academic Leadership Program, 2014.
“Jumping the Conference Paper Hoop.” Department of Geography Graduate Professional Development
Forum, 2014.
“New Chair Orientation.” Academic Leadership Program, 2013.
“Effective Communication with Your Advisor.” Graduate School – New Brunswick.
“The Job Hunt: Joining the Ranks" (Part 2). Departments of Geography and Anthropology. Graduate
Professional Training Seminar, 2012.
“The Job Hunt: Joining the Ranks” (Part 1). Departments of Geography and Anthropology. Graduate
Professional Training Seminar, 2011.
“Jumping the Conference Paper Hoop.” Department of Geography Graduate Professional Training
Seminar, 2010.
“The Job Hunt: Joining the Ranks.” Department of Geography Graduate Professional Training Seminar,
2009.
“The Job Hunt: Joining the Ranks.” Department of Geography Brownbag Series, 2007.
“Conducting Research on/with Non-Governmental Organizations.” Graduate Certificate Program in
African Studies, 2006.
“Balancing Career and Family.” Panel member. Teaching Assistant Project, Rutgers Graduate School,
2005.
“The Job Hunt: Joining the Ranks.” Department of Geography Symposium Series, 2003.
“Unmapping the Myths in African Studies,” Global Citizen 2000 Workshop for New Jersey High School
Teachers and Administrators, 1999.
“The Job Hunt: Joining the Ranks” (with M. Medler). Department of Geography Symposium Series, 1999.
“Multi-media Instruction in Geography” (with J. Hasse, K. Nichols and H. Wee). Department of
Geography Symposium Series, 1996.
“Creeping Professionalization of Graduate School: Jumping the Conference Paper Hoop.” Department of
Geography Symposium Series, 1995.
“Developing Conference Papers and Abstracts.” Graduate Student Association/AAUP Workshop on the
Professionalization of Graduate Students, 1994.
Other
Florida International University, “The Politics and Ethics of Ethnographic Research (roundtable
discussion).” Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, 2009.
Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers University. “Workshop on Urban Sustainability,” 1998.
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University of Georgia, “Representing Communities: Conservation, Culture and the Dilemmas of
Advocacy in Community-Based Resource Management,” Ford Foundation Conference Planning
Workshop, 1996.
US Forest Service, “Northern Forests Global Change Research: Planning a Social Science Agenda.”
Workshop at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1995.
University of California-Berkeley. “The Organization of Work, The Organization of Protest.” Dissertation
workshop, International and Area Studies Program, 1992.
Social Science Research Council Joint Committee on African and Southeast Asian Studies, “Gender and
Social Transformation.” Dissertation workshop, 1990.
USAID/Save the Children Federation, “African Regional Conference on Food Aid Enhancement
Programs.” Nairobi, Kenya, 1986.
United Nations, “Special Session on African Women Farmers,” NGO representative, New York, 1986.
Teaching Activities
Courses Taught
Rutgers University
“Introduction to Geography.” Introductory undergraduate lecture course.
“Conservation.” Introductory undergraduate lecture course.
“Africa.” Upper level undergraduate seminar.
“Geography of Development.” Upper level undergraduate seminar.
“Cultural and Political Ecology.” Upper level undergraduate seminar.
“Research Design.” Graduate seminar.
“Environment and Development.” Graduate seminar.
“Uneven Development.” Graduate seminar.
"Proseminar." Graduate seminar.
University of California
“Third World Development.” Introductory undergraduate lecture course, teaching assistant.
“Economic Geography: The Local and The Global.” Introductory undergraduate lecture course,
teaching assistant.
“Population and Natural Resources.” Upper level undergraduate seminar, teaching assistant.
University of Wisconsin
“Environmental Studies: The Humanistic Perspective.” Introductory undergraduate lecture course,
teaching assistant.
Curricular Development
New Courses Designed
“Conservation” (School of Arts and Sciences “Signature Course”). Introductory undergraduate
lecture course.
“Geography of Development.” Upper level undergraduate seminar.
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“Gender Geographies” (with J. Regulska). Upper level undergraduate seminar.
“Research Design.” Graduate seminar.
Courses Revised
“Africa.” Upper level undergraduate seminar.
“Environment and Development” (previously: “Environmental Problems in Developing Countries”).
Graduate seminar.
“Uneven Development” (previously: “Human Geographical Problems of Developing Countries”).
Graduate seminar.
Curriculum Development
Minor in Environmental Studies. New undergraduate degree program. Proposal to establish a Major
in Environmental Studies is currently under review.
Minor in International and Global Studies (w/T. Birkenholtz). New undergraduate degree program,
replaced International Studies Certificate Program.
International Studies Certificate Program. Added eight geography courses.
School of Arts and Sciences Core Curriculum. Added eight geography courses.
Geography Graduate Program. Revised core course requirements for Master's and PhD students.
Africa across the Curriculum Project. Designed and implemented US Department of Educationsponsored initiative to provide seed funding for the establishment of ten new African Studies
courses and six new African Studies course modules in fourteen different academic units.
Lilly Foundation Teaching Excellence Fellowship Curriculum Project, introduced multi-media
instructional techniques to Geography Department colleagues and graduate instructors.
Students Supervised – Principal Advisor (since 1999)
PhD Dissertations (major grants won; placement)
Andrews, Margo (co-advisor). Snowmobiling and Natural Resource Conflict in Maine’s North
Woods. 2014. (Environmental Science Teacher, Pennington School, New Jersey)
Barron, Elizabeth. Situated Knowledge and Fungal Conservation: Morel Mushroom Management in
the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States. 2009. (Canon National Parks/AAAS Science
Scholars Program. Canon Scholarship; Postdoctoral Fellowship, Harvard University; tenure track
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)
Capoccia, Stella (co-advisor). Animal Rights and Wildlife Management in Kenya. 2013. (Tenure
track Assistant Professor, Montana State University)
DePlaen, Renaud. Contracting Malaria in the Paddies: A Farming Systems Approach to Malaria in
Northern Cote d’Ivoire. 2001. (Senior Program Specialist, International Development Research
Centre, Ottawa, Canada)
Duffy-Tumasz, Amelia. Gendered Seascapes in Senegal. ABD. (NSF Doctoral Dissertation
Improvement Grant; Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Award; Society of Women
Geographers Pruitt Dissertation Award)
Isaacs, Jenny. Critical Conservation Theory and Bird-life. ABD. (Center for Cultural Analysis
Fellowship)
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Neimark, Benjamin. Industrial Heartlands of Nature: The Political Economy of Bioprospecting in
Madagascar. 2009. (Fulbright IIE Fellowship; Lecturer in International Development and Human
Geography, Lancaster University, UK)
Nichols, Karen. Development Crisis Revisited: Cycles of Resource Regulation, Disenfranchisement,
and Resistance in Sri Lanka. 2000. (Tenure track Assistant Professor, SUNY Geneseo [since
resigned])
Olsen, Helen. Calculus of Care: Cervical Cancer Politics in Tanzania. Exams pending.
Scott, Deborah. Soft Law and Scientific Uncertainty: The Case of Biofuels in the Convention on
Biological Diversity. 2015. (NSF IGERT Traineeship)
Setyowati, Abidah. Plus What? Tracking the Development Outcomes of Aceh, Indonesia’s REDD+
Project. 2014. (NSF Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, UNDP Asia-Pacific Human
Development Fellowship Award, Margaret McNamara Memorial Fund Fellowship)
Wilson, Bradley. Between Market and Movement: The Fair Trade Coffee ‘Buycott’ in Nicaragua and
the United States. 2010 (Fulbright IIE; Tenure track Assistant Professorship, West Virginia
University)
Master’s Theses
Andrews, Margo. (co-advisor) The Machine in the Forest: A Political Ecology of Snowmobiling and
Conflict in Maine’s North Woods. 2008
Bannor, Katherine. The “Failed States” Model in Africa: Sudan and Somalia in Comparative
Perspective. 2015.
Taneja, Bansuri. Restoring Watersheds and Streams: Environmental Recovery in Northwest India.
1999.
Master’s Exams
Albert, Katherine. 2001
Baptista, Sandra. 1999
Craig, Verdie. 1999
Ilal, Banu. 2003
Ling, Angel. 2005
Undergraduate Honors Theses
Davenport, Michael. Transmigration and Development in Indonesia. 1994.
Davy, Colleen. Globalization, International Competition, and Deindustrialization: As Witnessed in
the American Steel Industry. 1999.
Undergraduate Honors Student Mentoring Program
Ball, Daniel. 2008
Kousha, Tara. 2009
Pokres, Ian. 2009
Aresty Program Undergraduate Research Assistants Mentored
Hu, Shuhan. 2009
Jackson, Latoya. 2009
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Lizardi, Alexus. 2014
Prasad, Soumya. 2014
Ramaprasad, Prithi. 2007
Internships:
Motley, Samantha. American Geographic Society. 2012
Magaraci, Kimberly. American Geographic Society. 2012
Yamane, Kae. Middlesex County Transportation Planning Office. 2012
Nethery, Angela. Kaart Data. 2012
Williams, Daniel. NJ Department of Environmental Protection. 2011
Students Supervised – Committee Member (since 1999)
PhD Dissertations
Addison, Lincoln. (Anthropology, Rutgers) Compound Institutions: The Making of a Plantation
Community along the South Africa – Zimbabwe Border. 2013.
Baskind, Sharon. (Anthropology, Rutgers) Scenic Landscapes and Conservation Easements:
Common Interest in Private Lands in San Juan County, WA. 2009.
Bates, Diane (Sociology, Rutgers). Environmental Refugees? Colonist Migration from the
Ecuadorian Amazon. 2000.
Bhan, Mona (Anthropology, Rutgers). Visible Margins: State, Identity and Development among
Brogpas of Ladakh (India). 2006.
Campbell, Lindsay. City of Forests, City of Farms: Constructing Nature in New York City. 2013.
Craig, Verdie A. Growing the Golden Leaf: Tobacco Grower Livelihoods and Change. 2005.
Darwish, Siad (Anthropology, Rutgers). Water for Phospate, Not for People: Extractive Industries,
Resource Conflicts, and the Social Life of Water in Tunisia. ABD.
Diamond, Adam. Transformation and Reproduction: Constructing the Organic Milk Commodity
Chain in the Northeast United States. 2006.
Drake, Luke. Examining the Network Dynamics of Alternative Economic Spaces Through Urban
Agriculture and Community Gardens. ABD.
Engel-DiMauro, Salvatore. Soil Use, Soil Science, and Gender Relations. 2000.
Ferring, David. Small-scale Gold Mining in Ghana. Exams Pending.
Gabriel, Nathaniel. Dominance and Difference: Urban Environmental Management and its
Alternatives. 2012.
Gerlofs, Ben. Rights to the City in Mexico. Exams Pending.
Gilmore, Ruth Wilson. From Military Keynesianism to Post-Keynesian Militarism: Finance Capital,
Land, Labor and Opposition in the Rising California Prison State. 1998.
Hackworth, Jason. Third Wave Gentrification. 2000.
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Hernandez, Monica. Land-Titling Politics and Afro-Colombian Claims Making in Colombia. Exams
Pending.
Karnad, Divya. Fisheries and Conservation in India. ABD.
Kasbarian, Antranig John. ‘We Are Our Mountains’: Geographies of Nationalism in the Armenian
Self-determination Movement, Nagorno-Karabakh. 2004.
Kelly, Jessica. Reassessing Forest Transition Theory: Gender, Land Tenure Insecurity and Forest
Cover Change in El Salvador. 2009.
Ishiyama, Noriko. Environmental Justice and American Indian Sovereignty: Political, Economic, and
Ethnic Struggles Regarding the Storage of Radioactive Waste. 2002.
Ledermann, Samuel. Organic Justice: Non-traditional Agricultural Exports and Inequalities in
Tanzania. 2012.
Maantay, Juliana. Industrial Zoning Changes and Environmental Justice in New York City: An
Historical Geographical and Cultural Analysis. 2000.
Martinez-Kruger, Raysa. Garbage Governmentalities and Environmental Justice in New Jersey.
ABD.
Mockrin, Miranda (Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, Columbia University). Hunting
for Control: Biological and Social Sustainability of Wildlife Harvesting in Central Africa. 2008.
Nisa, Richard. Cellular Geopolitics: Moving Bodies, Security and Justice in Control Societies. 2013.
Otruba, Ariel. Contested Borders in the Republic of Georgia. Exams pending
Paul, Diya. Community Conservation Politics in India. Exams pending.
Sarmiento, Eric. Networks of Difference: Emergent Subjectivity, Alterity, and the Political Economy
of Food Provision. ABD.
Silva, Julie. Neoliberalization and Inequality: Examining Regional Patterns, Household Dynamics,
and Lived Experiences in Mozambique. 2005.
Stewart, Andrew. Poached Modernity: Parks, People and Politics in Nicaragua, 1975-2000. 2000.
Tanner, Sean. Post-development Challenges in Guatemala: Knowledges as a Key for Re-imagining
Development. ABD.
Zoleta-Nantes, Doracie. Differential Vulnerability to Flooding in Metro Manila: Perspectives of
Street Children, the Urban Poor and Residents of Wealthy Neighborhoods. 1999.
PhD Qualifying Exams
Oza, Rupal. 1995.
Rothenberg, Tamar. 1993.
Venkatasubramanian, Kalpana. 2011
Master’s Theses
Hardoy, Jorgelina. Hazards Research: Towards an Integrated Discourse, or New Labels for Old
Ideas. 2003.
Sponberg, Kelly. Hazards Within and Without: The Effect of Globalization and New Technologies
on Meteorological Services of Least Developed Countries. 2003.
Master’s Exams
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Bjerke, Jennifer. 2012
MacGregor, Janine. 1995
McGlynn, Charles. 1997
Raberg, Lena. 1998
Salmon, Scott. 2011
Wee, Hong-Ling. 1996
Zeidmann, Anne. 1995
Service
Conferences, Workshops, and Lecture Series Organized
Co-organizer, “Urban Natures.” Rutgers/Syracuse/Penn State/Clark University Nature-Society Workshop,
Rutgers University, 2012.
Organizer, “Hurricane Irene: Storm Planning, Impact and Aftermath in New Jersey.” Department of
Geography, Rutgers University, 2011.
Organizer, “Dearth and Diversity: The Political Ecologies of Environmental Management at
Biogeographical Poles.” Lecture Series Sponsored by the Global Initiatives Program, Rutgers University,
2009.
Co-organizer, “The Future of White Africa: Reproducing Privilege on a Changing Social Landscape.”
Center for African Studies/Center for Race and Ethnicity, Rutgers University, 2008.
Co-organizer, “Environmental Justice Abroad,” MaGrann Conference, Geography Department, Rutgers
University, 2004.
Co-organizer, “Political Ecology at Home,” MaGrann Conference, Geography Department, Rutgers
University, 2003.
Co-organizer, “Africa across the Curriculum Workshop,” Center for African Studies, Rutgers University,
2000.
Co-organizer, “Progressive Pedagogies in African Studies Workshop,” Center for African Studies,
Rutgers University, 1999.
Co-organizer, “Poverty and the Environment in Africa,” Nordic Institute for African Studies, Skytteholm,
Sweden, 1997.
Organizer, “National Workshop: Horticultural Programming in Rural Gambia.” Banjul, The Gambia,
1991.
Conference Sessions Organized and Chaired
Organizer, “White African Futures: Reproducing Privilege on a Changing Social Landscape.” Annual
Meeting of the African Studies Association, New Orleans, 2009.
Co-organizer and Chair, “Economy and Society in Southern Africa after Apartheid,” Annual Meeting of
the African Studies Association, San Francisco, 2006.
Chair, “Pushing the Boundaries of African Wildlife Management,” Annual Meeting of the African Studies
Association, New Orleans, 2004.
Organizer and Chair, “Political Ecology in the Regions I-IV[four session series]: Latin America, Africa,
Asia, North America.” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. New Orleans, 2003.
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Organizer and Chair, “Politicizing Tanzanian Ecologies.” Annual Meeting of the African Studies
Association, Washington, DC, 2002.
Co-organizer and Co-chair, “Beyond Distributive Justice: Competing Theories of Environmental Justice.”
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. Los Angeles, 2002.
Co-organizer and Chair, “The State and the Environment in Africa,” Annual Meeting of the Association
of American Geographers. Fort Worth, 1997.
Organizer and Chair, “Renewed Intervention: Forms of ‘Global’ Environmental Control in Africa,”
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. San Francisco, 1996.
Co-organizer and Chair, “Environmental Interventions I-III [three session series]: Discursive Incursions;
Protection Interventions; Strategic Livelihoods,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers. Charlotte, 1996.
Co-organizer and Chair, “Re-claiming African Lands: Property Rights and Environmental Intervention,”
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association. Orlando, 1995.
Co-organizer, “Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global Environmental Agendas,” Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. San Francisco, 1994.
Chair, “Geography and Trade,” Regional meeting, Middle States Division, Association of American
Geographers. University of Delaware, 1993.
Editorial Boards
International Encyclopedia of Geography. Section Editor: Political Ecology, 2012Environment and Society. Editorial Advising Board, 2009Professional Advisory Boards
Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University, 1999-2004
Rainforest Alliance, Natural Resources and Rights Program, 1996-1999
Membership in Scholarly and Professional Societies
Tanzania Studies Association, 2002African Studies Association (ASA), 1993Association of American Geographers (AAG), 1991African Studies Association
Graduate Student Mentoring Panel, Annual Meeting, 2013
Annual Meeting Panels Review Committee Section Chair
“Environment.” Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, 2014
“Agriculture and the Environment.” Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, 2008
“Science, Technology, Medicine and the Environment.” Annual Meeting, Columbus, Ohio, 1997
Peer Review - Scholarly Presses
Duke University Press
Edward Arnold Press
Island Press
North Carolina University Press
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Policy Press
Routledge Press
University of California Press
University of Georgia Press
Peer Review - Grant Proposals
American Council of Learned Societies, Dissertation Completion Fellowship Program
Selection Committee (three years)
Proposal Reviewer (two years)
Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies, International Dissertation Field
Research Fellowship
National Science Foundation
Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant Program
Post-doctoral Research Fellowship Program
Faculty Early Career Development Program
National Geographic Society
Oregon Sea Grant
Peer Review - Academic Journals
Africa
African Geographical Review
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Anthropological Quarterly
Antipode
Area
Canadian Geographer
Canadian Journal of African Studies
Cultural Anthropology
Economic Geography
Ecumene
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Environment and Society
Gender, Place and Culture
Geoforum
Geographical Review
Geography Compass
Global Environmental Politics
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Journal of Contemporary African Studies
Land Use Policy
Political Geography
Professional Geographer
Risk Analysis,
Signs
Society and Natural Resources
Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geographie
Urban Geography
Additional service to University, School, College
Fulbright IIE Fellowship Committee, 2013
International Programs, Global Opportunity Award Committee, 2008
Claude Ake Prize Committee (Best undergraduate paper in African Studies), 2008
Graduate School Bevier Fellowship Committee, 2007
Fellow, Livingston College, 1995-2000
Organization for Tropical Studies Fellowship Committee, 1995
Service to the Geography Department/Graduate Program
Graduate Program Executive Committee, 2007-2015
Graduate Teaching Excellence Committee, 2000, 2001, 2002-2004, 2007
Undergraduate Honors Committee, 1994, 1997, 1999, 2002-2004
Graduate Admissions Committee, 1994-1996, 2000, 2002-2004
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