Roderick Paul Neumann
Curriculum Vitae
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies
School of International and Public Affairs
Florida International University
Miami, FL 33199
(305) 348-2936
[email protected]
CURRENT POSITION
Professor and Department Chair
EDUCATION
1992 Doctor of Philosophy in Geography, University of California, Berkeley.
Dissertation: Social Origins of Natural Resource Conflict in Arusha National Park,
Tanzania
1986
Master of Science in Forest Resources Management, University of Idaho.
Thesis: Threats to Neotropical National Parks: An Application of Biogeography Theory
1982 Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Management, California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2010-present
Chair, Department of Global & Sociocultural Studies, FIU
2007-2008
Visiting Scholar, Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University
of California, Berkeley
2006-present
Professor, Florida International University
1992-2010
Affiliated Faculty, Environmental Studies Program and Department of
Environmental Studies, FIU
1997-2006
Associate Professor, Florida International University
1998-2002
Graduate Program Director, Department of International Relations, FIU
Fall, 2001
Acting Chair, Department of International Relations, FIU
1997-1998
Research Associate, University of Dar es Salaam
1994-1995
Postdoctoral Fellow, Agrarian Studies, Yale University
1992-1997
Assistant Professor, Florida International University
PROFESSIONAL CONSULTING
1995
Center for International Forestry Research. Participant, “Workshop for Social
Research on Non- timber Forest Products” Hot Springs, Zimbabwe, Aug. 28 –
Sept. 2.
1996
Center for International Forestry Research. Participant, “Workshop for Social
Research on Non- timber Forest Products, Part 2.” Madrid, Spain, Feb. 11-16.
RESEARCH GRANTS
2016
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, Principal
Investigator: “The Cultural Politics of Community-Based Conservation in Nepal’s
Chitwan National Park Buffer Zone” ($13,535). Yogesh Dongol Co-PI.
2007-2008
FIU Faculty Research Award, Principal Investigator: “The European Union’s
Biodiversity Crisis: Investigating Policy Effectiveness and Failures” ($15,000)
2007
European Union Center of Excellence Faculty Research Award, Principal
Investigator: “The European Union’s Biodiversity Crisis: Investigating Policy
Effectiveness and Failures” ($4,000)
1997-2000
National Science Foundation Research Grant, Principal Investigator:
“Conservation, Development and Rural Property Relations in Rural Tanzania”
($178,704)
1997-2000
Center for International Forestry Research, Research Grant, Principal
Investigator: “The Socio-Economic Effects of Non-Timber Forest Product
Commercialization” ($30,000)
1996
Florida International University, Division of Sponsored Research and Training
Seed Grant, Principal Investigator: “Conservation, Development and Rural
Property Relations in Rural Tanzania” ($346)
1994
Florida International University, Faculty Development Grant, Principal
Investigator: “The Effects of Democratization and Liberalization on Wildlife
Conservation in Tanzania” ($300)
1993
Florida International University, Faculty Development Grant: “History and
Politics of Environmental Conservation in Tanzania ($410)
1990
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, CoPrincipal Investigator: “The Origins and Meaning of Land Use Conflict in Arusha
National Park, Tanzania” ($13,000). Michael Watts, PI
1989-91
Social Science Research Council Dissertation Grant, Principal Investigator: “The
Origins and Meaning of Land Use Conflict in Arusha National Park, Tanzania”
($2,800)
1989-90
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Grant, Principal
Investigator: “Understanding Land Use Conflict in Arusha National Park,
Tanzania” ($8,500)
FELLOWSHIPS
1994-95
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University, Program in Agrarian Studies
1994
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Fellowship
1991
University of California, Berkeley Humanities Graduate Fellowship
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1991
Andrew and Mary Rocca Fellowship University of California, Berkeley Joint
Center for African Studies
1988-89
US Department of Education, Foreign Language and Area Studies
Fellowship (Swahili)
1988
Social Science Research Council Predissertation Fellowship
1988
US Department of Education, Summer Foreign Language and Area Studies
Fellowship (Swahili, declined)
AWARDS AND HONORS
2006
Matriculation Merit Award, Florida International University ($1,700 salary increase)
2002
Matriculation Merit Award, Florida International University ($1,500 salary increase)
2001
Matriculation Merit Award, Florida International University ($3,495 salary increase)
1992
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley
1990
National Wildlife Federation Graduate Research Publication of the Year
BOOKS
2015
Contemporary Human Geography: Culture, Globalization, Landscape. New
York: W.H. Freeman (with Domosh and Price).
2012
The Human Mosaic: A Cultural Approach to Human Geography. 12th edition.
New York: W.H. Freeman (with Domosh and Price).
2010
The Human Mosaic: A Cultural Approach to Human Geography. 11th edition.
New York: W.H. Freeman (with Domosh, Price, and Jordan).
2006
The Human Mosaic: A Thematic Introduction to Cultural Geography. 10th
edition. New York: W.H. Freeman (with Jordan, Domosh, and Price).
2005
Making Political Ecology. London and New York: Hodder Arnold.
2000
Research in NTFP Commercialization: Review and Analysis. Rome: UN Food
and Agricultural Organization. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International
Forestry Research (with Eric Hirsch).
1998
Imposing Wilderness: Struggles over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in
Africa. Berkeley: University of California Press.
PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
2017
Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation, and the Spaces of Biodiversity
Conservation. In Chari, Sharad et al. (eds) Another Geography is Possible: The
Influences of Michael Watts. New York: Wiley-Blackwell (In Press).
2017
Life Zones: The Rise and Decline of a Theory of the Geographic Distribution of
Species. In de Bont, Raf and Jens Lachmund (eds). Spatializing the History of
Ecology: Sites, Journeys, Mappings. New York: Routledge (In Press).
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2015
Political Ecology of Scale. In Bryant, Raymond (ed.). International Handbook of
Political Ecology. Cheltenham, UK & Northampton MA, USA: Edward Elgar, pp.
475-486.
2015
Nature Conservation. In Perreault, T., G. Bridge, and J. McCarthy (eds). Handbook of
Political Ecology. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 391-405.
2014
Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe: Implications for Forest Science and Policy in
the Global South. In Padoch, C., S. Hecht, and K. Morrison (eds) The Social Lives of
Forests: The Past, Present, and Future of Woodland Resurgence. Chicago:
University of Chicago, pp. 31-44.
2013
Churchill and Roosevelt in Africa: Performing and Writing Landscapes of Race,
Empire and Nation. Annals of the Association of American Geographers 103(6):
1371-1388.
2011
“Through the Pleistocene”: Nature and Race in Roosevelt’s African Game Trails. In
Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth A. Myers (eds). Environment at the Margins.
Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, pp. 43-72.
2011
Political Ecology III: Theorizing Landscape. Progress in Human Geography 35(6):
843–850.
2010
Political Ecology. In Kurian, G.T. et al. (eds) Encyclopedia of Political Science.
Washington, DC: CQ Press.
2010
Political Ecology II: Theorizing Regions. Progress in Human Geography 34(3): 368–
374.
2009
Political Ecology. In Kitchin R and Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of
Human Geography, Volume 8, pp. 228-233. Oxford: Elsevier.
2009
Biodiversity. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human
Geography, Volume 1, pp. 308-313. Oxford: Elsevier.
2009
Political Ecology: Theorizing Scale. Progress in Human Geography 33(3): 398-406.
2008
Probing the (In)Compatibilities of Social Theory and Policy Relevance in Piers
Blaikie’s Political Ecology. Geoforum 39(2): 728-35.
2007
Wilderness. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
2007
National Parks. Encyclopedia of Environment and Society. Thousand Oaks, CA:
Sage.
2007
Tanzania: Geography and Economy. New Encyclopedia of Africa. New York:
Charles Scribner’s Sons.
2007
Wildlife: National Parks. New Encyclopedia of Africa. New York: Charles Scribner’s
Sons.
2005
Model, Panacea, or Exception? Contextualizing CAMPFIRE and Related Programs
in Africa. In Brosius, P., A. Tsing, and C. Zerner (eds.). Representing Communities:
Histories and Politics of Community-Based Resource Management. New York and
London: Altamira Press.
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2004
Nature-State-Territory: Toward a Critical Theorization of Conservation Enclosures.
In Peet, R. and M. Watts (eds.). Liberation Ecologies (2nd edition). London:
Routlege.
2004
A Century of Changing Land Uses and Property Rights in Tanzania’s Selous Game
Reserve. In Beyond the Arch: Community and Conservation in Greater Yellowstone
and East Africa. Washington, D.C.: US National Park Service.
2004
Moral and Discursive Geographies in the War for Biodiversity in Africa. Political
Geography 23(7): 813-837.
2002
The Postwar Conservation Boom in British Colonial Africa. Environmental History
7(1) 22-47.
2001
Africa’s “Last Wilderness”: Reordering Space for Political and Economic Control in
Colonial Africa. Africa 71(4): 641-665.
2001
Disciplining Peasants in Tanzania: From Coercion to Self-Surveillance in Wildlife
Conservation. In Peluso, N.L. and M.J. Watts (eds.). Violent Environments. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press.
2000
Land, Justice, and the Politics of Conservation in Tanzania. In Zerner, Charles (ed.).
People, Plants, and Justice: Conservation and Resource Extraction in Tropical
Developing Countries. New York: Columbia University Press.
1997
Forest Rights, Privileges, and Prohibitions: Contextualizing State Forestry Policy in
Colonial Tanganyika. Environment and History 3(1): 45-68.
1997
Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa.
Development and Change 28(3): 559-582.
1997
Questions and Issues for Non-Timber Forest Product Research in Relation to
Conservation Policies in Africa. In Ruiz-Perez, M. and M. Arnold (eds). Current
Issues in Non-Timber Forest Products. Bogor, Indonesia: Center for International
Forestry Research.
1997
Parks and Land Rights. The Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York: Simon
and Schuster (800 words).
1996
Dukes, Earls and Ersatz Edens: Aristocratic Nature Preservationists in Colonial
Africa. Society and Space 14: 79-98.
1995
Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global Environmental Agendas
(with R. Schroeder). Antipode 27(4): 321-324.
1995
Local Challenges to Global Agendas: Conservation, Economic Liberalization, and
the Pastoralists’ Rights Movement in Tanzania. Antipode 27(4): 363-382.
1995
Ways of Seeing Africa: Colonial Recasting of African Society and Landscape in
Serengeti National Park. Ecumene 2(2): 149-169.
1995
Comparisons [of Philippine land rights] with Sub-Saharan Africa. Common Property
Resource Digest 34: 7-8.
1992
The Political Ecology of Wildlife Conservation in the Mount Meru Area, Northeast
Tanzania. Land Degradation and Rehabilitation 3(2): 85-98.
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1989
Land Use and Threats to Parks in the Neotropics (with Gary Machlis).
Environmental Conservation 16(2).
1987
The Status of National Parks in the Neotropical Realm (with Gary Machlis). Parks:
12(2): 3-8.
1986
La Situacion de los Parques Nacionales la Region Neotropical (with Gary Machlis).
In IUCN. Proceedings from the 27th Working Session of the Committee on National
Parks and Protected Areas.
JOURNAL ARTICLES REPRINTED IN ANTHOLOGIES
2008
Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa. In
Corbridge, S. (ed.). Development: Critical Essays in Human Geography. Volume in
the series, Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place. Aldershot: Ashgate.
(Reprinted from Development and Change)
2004
Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa. In
Moseley, W.G. (ed.). Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial African Issues.
Guilford, CT: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. (Reprinted from Development and Change)
2003
The Production of Nature: Colonial Recasting of African Landscape in Serengeti
National Park. In Zimmerer, K. and T. Bassett (eds.). Geographical Political
Ecology. London: Guilford. (Reprinted from Ecumeme)
2000
Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land in Africa. In
Broch-Due, Vigdis and Richard Schroeder (eds). Producing Nature and Poverty in
Africa. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet (Reprinted from Development and
Change).
1999
Local Challenges to Global Agendas: Conservation, Economic Liberalization, and
the Pastoralists’ Rights Movement in Tanzania. In Michael, M. (ed.). Preserving
Wildlife: An International Perspective. Amherst: Humanity Books. (Reprinted from
Antipode)
EDITED VOLUMES
1995
Manifest Ecological Destinies. Special issue of Antipode 27(4). (Edited with R.
Schroeder)
BOOK REVIEWS
2014
Transforming the Frontier: Peaceparks and the Politics of Neoliberal Conservation
in Southern Africa. Bram Buscher. Raleigh, NC: Duke University Press. In The AGG
Review of Books 2(2): 51-54.
2009
Imagining Serengeti: A History of Landscape Memory in Tanzania from Earliest
Times to Present. Jan Bender Shelter. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. In African
Studies Review 52(1): 208-210.
2006
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe by Donald Moore.
Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. In Environment and Planning D: Society and
Space 24(6): 938-940.
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2006
Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park by Christine
Walley. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004. In Africa Today 52(4): 149-152.
2006
Conservation and Globalization: A Study of National Parks and Indigenous
Communities from East Africa to South Dakota by Jim Igoe. Belmont, CA:
Wadsworth, 2004. In Journal. of the Royal Anthropological Institute 12: 248-9.
2002
Politicians and Poachers: The Political Economy of Wildlife Policy in Africa by
Clark Gibson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. In The Journal of
Asian and African Studies.
2002
Insatiable Appetite: the United States and the Ecological Degradation of the Tropical
World. By Richard Tucker. (Berkeley: University of California Press). In Journal of
Historical Geography 28 (2): 291-293.
2001
The Poor are Not Us: Poverty and Pastoralism by David Anderson and Vigdis
Broch-Due. Oxford: James Curry, 1999. In African Affairs.
2000
Scholar’s Choice (Guest Column). In Society and Space.
1998
Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, and Social Movements, by Richard
Peet and Michael Watts (eds.). London: Routledge, 1997. In Economic Geography.
1995
Land in African Agrarian Systems, by Thomas J. Bassett and Donald E. Crummey
(eds.). Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. In Annals of the
Association of American Geographers. 85(1): 206-208.
1993
Geography’s Inner Worlds: Pervasive Themes in Contemporary Geography, by R.F.
Abler, M.G. Marcus and J.M. Olson (eds.), Rutgers Press, 1992. In Environment and
Planning A. 25(8): 1222-1224.
1989
Conservation in Africa: People, Policies and Practice, by David Anderson and
Richard Grove (eds.). Cambridge University Press, 1987. In African Economic
History. 18: 154-156.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
TBD
Interspecies Intimacies: Tourism, Science, and the Meaning of Human-Wildlife
Encounters in Early Twentieth-Century Parks. In preparation for submission to the
Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
TBD
The Roots of Restoration Ecology: the Key Role of Yosemite National Park. In
preparation for submission to the Journal of Historical Geography.
INVITED PAPERS AND LECTURES
2017
Invited paper to be presented: Commoditization, Primitive Accumulation, and the
Spaces of Biodiversity Conservation. For the Conference on Property and
Environment in Developing Countries, National Museum of Natural History, Paris,
France, June 7-8.
2014
Invited paper: Ecological Science and Nature Conservation in North America: The
Case of Yosemite National Park. Spaces of Ecological Knowledge: Exploring the
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Geographies of a Field Science, 1870-Present Workshop, University of Maastricht,
the Netherlands, November 20-21.
2012
Invited paper: Interrogating Conservation Displacements. Environmental
Displacement in a Global Context Workshop, York Centre for Refugee Studies, York
University, May 4-5.
2012
Keynote address: Policing the Nature-Culture Boundary: Conservation,
Displacement, and the Project of Modernity. Delivered at the SAGGSA Conference,
Transgressing Boundaries and Occupying Spaces. FIU, March 29.
2011
Invited paper: Churchill and Roosevelt in Africa: Writing and Performing Race,
Nature, and National Identity. Dickey Center for International Understanding
Colloquium, Dartmouth College, May 11.
2010
Keynote address: The Matter of Nature in Regions. Delivered at the Workshop on
Regional Environmental Governance: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Theoretical
Issues, Comparative Designs. University of Geneva, Switzerland, June 16-18.
2009
Invited lecture. Biodiversity Narratives: Embedded Notions of History, Culture, and
Nature in Conservation Practices in Europe and Africa. Institute of Development
Studies Colloquium. University of Helsinki, November 16.
2009
Invited lecture. Biodiversity Narratives: Embedded Notions of History, Culture, and
Nature in Conservation Practices in Europe and Africa. Ecologies in the Balance?
Speakers Series. Rutgers University October 22.
2008
Invited author and participant, Stories of Nature’s Hybridity in Europe: Implications
for Forest Science and Policy in the Global South. Paper for the Inaugural Conference
of the Program on the Global Environment, “The Social Life of Forests: New
Frameworks for Studying Change”, University of Chicago, May 30-31.
2008
Invited lecture, Regional Political Ecologies: Lessons from Africa and Europe,
Sawyer Seminar on Environment and Agrarian Change, University of North Carolina,
February 29.
2008
Invited paper, Romancing Rural Europe: Nature/Culture Narratives of Conservation
in the EU and Beyond. Environmental Politics Colloquium, University of California,
Berkeley, March 21.
2006
Invited lecture, Churchill and Roosevelt in Africa: Elite Travel Writing and the
Origins of Ecotourism. “Baraza” Colloquium, Center for African Studies, University
of Florida. April 7.
2004
Invited participant, Symposium on Forest Certification in Developing and
Transitioning Societies: Social, Ecological, and Economic Effects. Yale University,
June 10-11.
2000
Invited paper, Ordering the Landscape for Social and Ecological Control in Twentieth
Century Tanzania. Agrarian Studies 2000 Conference, Yale University, New Haven,
CT, May 11-13.
1999
Invited lecture, Replacing People and Wildlife in Tanzania. Department of
Geography Colloquium, Dartmouth College, October 8.
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1999
Invited lecture, Environmental Conservation and the Dynamics of Land Tenure and
Settlement in Tanzania. Department of Geography Colloquium Series, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, January 19.
1998
Invited paper, Disciplining Peasants in Tanzania: From Coercion to Self-Surveillance
in Wildlife Conservation, for the workshop on Violence and the Environment,
September 24-26, 1998 at the Institute of International Studies, University of
California at Berkeley.
1997
Invited paper, Model, Panacea, or Exception? Contextualizing CAMPFIRE and
Related Programs in Africa, for the conference, Representing Communities:
Histories and Politics of Community Based Resource Management, University of
Georgia, international conference sponsored by the Ford Foundation, June 1-3.
1997
Invited paper, Primitive Ideas: Protected Area Buffer Zones and the Politics of Land
in Africa, for the workshop on The Politics of Poverty and Environmental
Interventions, sponsored by the Nordic Africa Institute, Stockholm, May 22-25.
1996
Invited participant, Second International Workshop on Non-Timber Forest Products,
Madrid, Spain, sponsored by the Autonomous University, Madrid and the Center for
International Forestry Research, February 11-16.
1995
Invited paper, Questions and Issues for Non-Timber Forest Product Research in
Relation to Conservation Policies in Africa, for the International Workshop on NonTimber Forest Products, Hot Springs, Zimbabwe, sponsored by the Oxford Forestry
Institute and the Center for International Forestry Research, August 28-September 2.
1995
Invited paper, Dukes, Earls and Ersatz Edens in Africa. Delivered at the Geography
Colloquium Series, Rutgers University, April 7.
1995
Invited paper, Dukes, Earls and Ersatz Edens in Africa. Delivered at the Program in
Agrarian Studies Colloquium, Yale University, March 31.
1994
Invited participant, the Workshop on Conservation and Human Rights, Cornell
University, October 28.
1992
Invited lecture, Social Origins of Natural Resource Conflict in Arusha National Park,
Tanzania, for the Department of Geography Colloquium, University of California,
Berkeley, May 7.
1990
Invited lecture, The Role of Social Science Research in Understanding HumanWildlife Conflicts. Delivered at the College of African Wildlife Management,
Mweka, Tanzania, August 4.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2016
The Nature of African Peasantries: Biodiversity Conservation through the Lens of
Agrarian Political Economy. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, March 28-April 2.
2014
Biopower and the Violence of Displacement: A (Historical) Political Ecology of Two
National Parks. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 8-12.
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2006
Elite Performance of National Identity Abroad: Churchill and Roosevelt in the
African Landscape. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 15-20.
2004
Rethinking the Relationship of Mobility and Legibility of Rural Populations: Lessons
from Southern Tanzania. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA, March 15-20.
2003
A Century of Changing Land Use and Property Rights in Tanzania’s Selous Game
Reserve. Paper to be presented at the Seventh Biennial Conference on the Greater
Yellowstone Ecosystem, Yellowstone National Park, October 4-6.
2002
Killing for Conservation: Is Biodiversity Protection the Moral Equivalent of War?
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
March 17-22, Los Angeles, CA.
2001
Nature, Modernity, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, February 27-March 2,
New York, NY.
2000
From ‘Meat Greedy Savages’ to ‘Contented Labor’: Wildlife Laws and Social
Transformation in Colonial Africa. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the
African Studies Association, Nashville, TN
2000
Wilderness with a History: Social Control and Landscape Change in South-Central
Tanzania. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American
Geographers, April 4-8, Pittsburgh, PA.
1999
Re-placing People and Wildlife in Tanzania. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting
of the African Studies Association, November 8-11, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1999
Disease, Development, and Conservation: Changing Images of People and Place in
Colonial Tanzania. Paper presented at the conference on African Environments, Past
and Present, July 5-8, The University of Oxford, England.
1998
Enclosure for the Nineties? Environment, Tenure, and Identity in Tanzania. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March
25-29, Boston, Massachusetts.
1997
State-Directed, Community-Based Environmental Management: Exploring Historical
Continuities in Africa. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of
American Geographers, April 1-5, Fort Worth, Texas.
1995
Wild Claims: Buffer Zones, Migration Corridors, and Tenure Relations in East
Africa. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association,
November 3-6, Orlando, Florida.
1995
Designing Nature: The National Park Ideal in Social-Historical Context. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, March
15-18, Chicago, Illinois.
1994
Land Rights, Conservation, and Capital in Tanzania's Changing Political Economy.
Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
April 4-8, San Francisco, California.
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1993
African Rights and Colonial Forest Policy in Tanzania. Paper presented at the
Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, December 4-8, Boston,
Massachusetts.
1993
Representations of Nature and Culture in an African National Park. Paper presented
at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 6-10,
Atlanta, Georgia.
1993
Environmental Conservation in Tanzania's Changing Political Landscape. Paper
presented at the Colloquium on Democratization and Development in Africa, March
26, Florida International University.
1992
Wildlife Conservation and Village Moral Economy in Mount Meru, Tanzania. Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April
18-22, San Diego, CA.
1990
Competing Commons: Local Response to the Criminalization of Customary Use of
Resources in Arusha National Park, Tanzania. Paper presented at the International
Association for the Study of Common Property Conference, September 27-30 at
Duke University.
1989
Conflict Over Access to Land and Resources in Tanzania's National Parks. Paper
presented at the Stanford-U.C. Berkeley Joint Center for African Studies Conference.
April 22, 1989.
1997
The State and Environmental Management in Africa. Panel organized for the Annual
Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 1-5, Fort Worth, Texas.
1996
Questioning NGO Interventions for Nature Protection in Africa. Panel organized for
the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 23-26, San
Francisco, California.
1995
Reclaiming African Lands: Property Rights and Environmental Intervention. Panel
organized for the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 3-6,
Orlando, Florida.
1994
Manifest Ecological Destinies: Local Rights and Global Environmental Agendas.
Panel organized for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers,
April 4-8, San Francisco, California.
1993
The Natural and the Unnatural: The Politics of Preservation. Panel organized for the
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, April 6-10, Atlanta,
Georgia.
TEACHING
Courses taught at Florida International University
GEA 2000
World Regional Geography
GEA 3600
Population and Geography of Africa
GEO 2000
Introduction to Geography
GEO 3421
Cultural Geography
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GEO 4476
Political Ecology
SSI 3240
Global Prospects and Issues
ISS 6346
Graduate Seminar: Theory and Inquiry
ISS 6306
Graduate Seminar: Proposal Writing
GEO 6473
Graduate Seminar: Space, Place, and Identity
INR 6056
Graduate Seminar: Environment and Development
INR 6019
Graduate Seminar: Comparative Area Studies
GRADUATE STUDENT MENTORING (1998-present)
MA Theses Directed
Vilma Hernandez (International Studies) (1997)
The Politics of Deforestation in Honduras: A Case Study of the Watershed
Region of El Cajon
Laura Holtz (Latin American Studies) (2006)
Indigenous Peoples and a New Culture of Petroleum Politics in the
Ecuadorian Amazon
MA Theses Read
Sekou Camara (2001)
Francophone Regionalism and its Impact on West African Integration
Bryna Griffin (Environmental Studies) (2004)
People in the Park: Resource Exclusion and Human-Park Conflict Within
Klaeng Krachan National Park, Thailand
MA Exam Option
Philip Andrews (2000)
Hanna Kiuru (2002)
Luis Pineda (2002)
Brian Hollingsworth (2003)
Cheeku Bhasin (2003)
Vashti Kelly (2006)
Giselle Peruyera (2006)
Yuri Acosta (2006)
John Haberl (2006)
Alex Santillan (2007)
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Ph.D. Dissertations Directed
Diana Ter-Ghazaryan (Defended June 2010)
Landscape and National Identity in the Post-Soviet Transformation of
Yerevan, Armenia
Manoj Shivlani (Defended March 2014)
Political Ecology of Identity in Fisheries-Dependant Communities in the
Florida Keys
Charles Heck (Defended November 2016)
Favella Displacement in Rio de Janeiro: Ecolimits and Disaster
Biopolitics in the Favela Santa Marta
Yogesh Dongol (ABD)
The Cultural Politics of New Conservation Territories: Identity,
Inequality, and Citizenship in Nepal’s Buffer Zones
Ph.D. Dissertations Read
Laura Boudon (International Relations) (2000)
World Coffee Markets and National Coffee Parastatals since 1989: A
Comparative Study of Colombia and Cote D’ivoire
Laura Zanotti (International Relations) (2004)
Disciplining Democracy: United Nations Peacekeeping, International
Security and Democratization in the Post-Cold War Era
William Allen (History) (2002)
Sugar and Coffee: A History of Settler Agriculture in Nineteenth Century
Liberia
German Palacio (History) (2003)
Civilizing the Tropics: The Highlanders’ Failed Attempt to Transform the
Colombian Amazon, 1850-1930
Meredith Marconi (Comparative Sociology) (2009)
Beliefs and Values of the Environment in Marine Resource Based
Industries in Seward, Alaska
Bertin Kuoadio (International Relations) (2009)
From Stability to Insurgency: The Root and Proximate Causes of the Civil
War in Cote D’ivoire
Heini Vihemaki (University of Helsinki) (Development Studies) (2009)
Participation or Further Exclusion? Contestations over Forest
Conservation and Control in the East Usambara Mountains, Tanzania
Catherine Picard (Yale University, Forestry and Environmental Studies) (2010)
The Promise and Peril of Transboundary Conservation: A Case Study of
the Selous-Niassa Wildlife Corridor, Tanzania
Christian Melo (International Relations) (2010)
Left Behind: The Fate of Ecuadorian Cocoa Farmers in the Age of
Sustainable Development
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Diana Ojeda (Clark University, Geography) (2011)
Producing Paradise, Making the State: Nature, Race and the Violent
Geographies of Tourism in the Colombian Caribbean
Rebecca Garviolle (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (2013)
Bridging the Tamiami Trail: Understanding the Stakeholder Politics of
Everglades Restoration
Cynthia Malakasis (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (2014)
Immigration and Nationalism in Greece
Dusan Uringa (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (Withdrew 2014)
EU Integration: Theory, Indices, Reality
Brittany Kiessling (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (2016) Rural Development
and Shrimp Aquaculture in India
Billy Hall (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (2016) (Un)Making the Food Desert:
Food, Race, and Redevelopment in Miami’s Overtown Community
Janna Lafferty (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (In Progress, ABD) Unsettling
Local Food: Muckleshot Food Sovereignty and the Cultural Politics of
Food System Localization in the US Pacific Northwest
Alex Huezo (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (In Progress, ABD) Coca Spraying
and Social Justice in Colombia
Rosibel Roman (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (In Progress, ABD)
Environmental Justice in Russia
Joshua Mullenite (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (In Progress, Pre-proposal)
Sea-Level Rise and Agricultural Development in Guyana
Eric VanFleet (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (In Progress, Pre-proposal)
Truffle Cultivation in France
Mariama Jaiteh (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (In Progress, ABD) The
Gambia’s Tourism Sexual Economies-- Affectionate Entanglements in a
Postcolonial Time
Carl Bevelhymer (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (In Progress, Pre-proposal)
Economic Development in Flower Producing Regions of Kenya in
Relation to Processes of Democratization
Melissa Bernardo (Global & Sociocultural Studies) (In Progress, Pre-proposal)
Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, and Farmer Resilience in South Florida
Agriculture.
Ph.D. Qualifying Exams
Laura Zanotti (1998)
Robert Ulysse (2003)
Shelby Gilbert (Education) (2003)
Bertin Kuoadio (2004)
Barbie Bishoff (2005)
Jan Solomon (2006)
Diana Ter-Ghazaryan (2007)
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Catherine Picard (Yale University, Forestry and Environmental Studies) (2007)
Monalisa Gangopadhyay (2007)
Cristian Melo (2007)
Amy Ritterbush (2008)
Serena Cruz (2008)
Amy Ritterbush (2008)
Manoj Shivlani (2009)
Charles Heck (2010)
Cynthia Malakasis (2010)
Rebecca Garviolle (2010)
Billy Hall (2013)
Brittany Kiessling (2013)
Janna Lafferty (2014)
Alex Huezo (2014)
Yogesh Dongol (2015)
Rosibel Roman (2015)
Josh Mullenite (2016)
Mariama Jaiteh (2016)
Eric Van Vleet (2016)
Carl Bevelhymer (2016)
EDITORIAL BOARDS
2007-present
Political Geography
2008-2011
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
1999-2004
Antipode
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
Association of American Geographers
American Anthropology Association
African Studies Association
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Vice President, Dean's Council of Chairs and Directors
Chair, Human Geography Search Committee, Department of Global and Sociocultural
Studies, 2009.
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Faculty Senate Member, 2008-2010 and 2006-2007.
Member, University Core Curriculum Oversight Committee, 2008-2010.
Member, Department of Environmental Studies Joint Search Committee, 2007.
Chair, Human Geography Search Committee, Department of International Relations, 2006.
Member, Undergraduate Committee, Department of International Relations, 2005-2007.
Dissertation Advisor Status: Member, First University Cohort; Member, Intra-Departmental
Review Committee, 2004-2005.
Director, Geography Program, Department of International Relations, 2000-2007.
Chair, Department of International Relations Five-Year Program Review Committee, 200102.
Director, Department of International Relations Graduate Program and Chair, Graduate
Advisory Committee, 1998-2002.
University Review Committee for Fulbright Fellowship applications: 2002-03; 2003-04.
Affiliated faculty member, Department of Environmental Studies, Florida International
University.
Member, African-New World Studies Program Advisory Board, Florida International
University, 2001 to 2008.
Member, Admissions Committee, Graduate Program in International Studies, Florida
International University, 1996-97.
Chair, Ad Hoc Committee to Develop a Geography BA, 1996 and 1998, Department of
International Relations, Florida International University.
Member, Doctoral Program Advisory Committee, Department of International Relations,
Florida International University, 1993-94 and 1995-96.
SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION
2006
Chair, Geography Committee for the Florida SUS Common Prerequisites Project.
2003
Section Chair, “Environmental Change and Patterns in Africa”, for the Annual
Meeting of the African Studies Association.
2001
Nominated Candidate for the Board of Directors of the African Studies Association.
Peer Reviews of Journal Submissions (1999-present)
Ambio
American Anthropologist
American Ethnologist
Anthropological Research
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Antipode
Capitalism, Nature, Socialism
Comparative Studies in Society and History
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Conservation Biology
Conservation Letters
Cultural Anthropology
Cultural Geographies
Current Anthropology
Environment and History
Environment and Planning A
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Geoforum
Geografika Annaler
Geographical Journal
Geographical Review
Human Ecology
The International History Review
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of Peasant Studies
Political Geography
Progress in Human Geography
Social Science History
Society and Natural Resources
The Professional Geographer
Transactions
Book Manuscript and Prospectus Reviews
2014
2014
2013
2012
2012
2010
2007
2007
2005
2005
2005
2004
2004
2003
2002
2001
2001
University of Chicago Press
University of Washington Press
University of Georgia Press
University of Georgia Press (prospectus)
University of Chicago Press (prospectus)
Yale University Press (prospectus)
Cornell University Press (prospectus)
University of Chicago Press (prospectus)
MIT Press
University of Chicago Press
Routledge Press
University of California Press (prospectus)
University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
Kluwer Academic Publishers (prospectus)
University of California Press
University of Virginia Press
Research Proposal Reviews
2016
2014
2012
National Science Foundation (1)
National Science Foundation (1)
National Geographic Society (1)
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National Science Foundation (1)
National Science Foundation (1)
National Science Foundation (1)
National Science Foundation (1)
Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (1)
Social Sciences and Humanities Council of Canada (1); National Science
Foundation (1)
National Science Foundation (1)
National Science Foundation (2)
External Promotion Review
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Promotion to full professor: University of Toronto
Promotion to full professor: Santa Clara College
Tenure and promotion candidate: Bard College
Tenure and promotion candidate: Dartmouth College
Tenure and promotion candidate: University of Washington, Bothel
Promotion to full professor: University of Kentucky
Tenure and promotion candidate: York University
Promotion to full professor: University of Toronto
Tenure and promotion candidate: University of California, Berkeley
Full professor, in grade promotion: University of California, Berkeley
Tenure and promotion candidate: York University
Tenure and promotion candidate: University of Manchester
Tenure and promotion candidate: Rutgers University
Tenure and promotion candidate: Dartmouth College
Tenure and promotion candidate: Bates College
REFERENCES
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