Curriculum Vitae
Naomi Y. Shanguhyia, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow
College of Arts and Sciences
Syracuse University
Email: [email protected]
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EDUCATION
Ph.D., Geography - West Virginia University
Dissertation Title: Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and
Landscape Change in Western Kenya
Dissertation Chair: Dr. Brent McCusker
M.A., Geography – West Virginia University
M. Ed. - Kenyatta University (Kenya)
B.Ed. (Hons.) – Kenyatta University (Kenya)
TEACHING AND ADVISING
Fall 2014 – Humanities Faculty Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University
Courses
CAS 100 (SEC M001 & M006)
Food, Society and Environment
CAS 100 (SEC M003)
Gender and Nature
Fall 2012 - Summer 2014
Courses
GEOG 100
GEOG 103
GEOG /SOC/ENVS 251
GEOG 234/WMST 234
GEOG 286
ENVS 397
Lecturer SUNY Oneonta, Geography Department
Introductory Geography
Introduction to Environmental and Sustainability Studies
Food, Society and the Environment
Global Perspectives in Gender and Nature
Geography of Africa
Environmental Internship
Summer 2008 & 2009 - Graduate Instructor, West Virginia University, Department of
Geology and Geography
Course
GEOG 102
World Regional Geography
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Aug 2005 – May 2010 - Graduate Teaching Assistant, West Virginia University,
Department of Geology and Geography
Courses
GEOG 102 World Regional Geography
GEOG 107 Introduction to Physical Geography
GEOG 108 Introduction to Human Geography
GEOG 199 Orientation to Geography
GEOG 241 European Geography
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2011 WVU Office of International Programs: Global Education Opportunities Grant
2010 National Science Foundation - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant
2010 WVU Eberly College Dissertation Travel Grant
2010 WVU Geology and Geography Department Dissertation Travel Supplementary
Grant
2007 WVU Eberly College HERF Supplementary Fellowship Award
RESEARCH WORK
September 2010 – March 2011
Dissertation Fieldwork in western Kenya
Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Landscape Change in
Western Kenya
December 2008 – January 2009
Research Assistant – NSF Collaborative Project, Mulanje, Malawi
Project title – Re-conceptualizing the Genesis of Change in Rural African Societies: Exploratory
Research on the Co-production of Land Use and Livelihood Change (PI: Brent McCusker)
August 1998 – March 1999
M.Ed Thesis Fieldwork – western Kenya
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
2013 Shanguhyia N. & McCusker B.: Chronic Food Insecurity in Kenya’s ASAL Areas: Naturalizing Uneven Development through Depeasantization and Deproletarianization.
Human Geography: A Radical Journal Vol. 6. No. 3
Manuscripts in Progress
Capital Penetration, Commodification of Nature and the Production of Rural Space: Examining
Land Use and Land Cover Change in Western Kenya
“Living like we are in the City”: Changing Rural Livelihoods during a period of Rapid Economic
Change: The Case of Vihiga County - Western Kenya
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A Political Economy of Rural Change: Neoliberal Economic Policies and Rural Development in
Vihiga County, Western Kenya
Dissertation and Theses
2013 Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Landscape Change
in Western Kenya, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Geology and Geography, West
Virginia University
2008 State Policy and Food Insecurity in Kenya’s ASAL Areas, MA Thesis, Department of
Geology and Geography, West Virginia University
2001 Improved Woodstove Use and Intra-household Resource Allocation among Rural
Households in Vihiga – Kenya, M.Ed. Thesis, Home Economics Department, Kenyatta
University, Kenya
Professional Presentations
2013 Divergent Narratives of Environmental Change: The Case of Forest Loss and
Reforestation Efforts on the Maragoli Hills, Western Kenya, Annual Conference of the
Association of American Geographers April 9 – 13
2013 Disparate Perceptions of Environmental Change: Who is Right and Does it Matter?
SUNY College at Oneonta Faculty Convivium, April 4
2012 Mapping Rural Change Trajectories: Land Use and Land Cover Change in rural
Western Kenya, Life of the Mind Faculty Showcase, SUNY Oneonta October 26
2012 Reversed Roles: Markets, Peri-urban expansion and Food Insecurity in rural Kenya,
Joint Annual Meeting and Conference of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values
(AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and Society for
Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), New York University, NYC, June 20 – 23
(with Martin Shanguhyia)
2010 Resource Extraction and the Production of Regulatory Space: The Case of West Virginia,
Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers April 14 – 18,
Washington DC (with Jennifer Smith, Paul O’Keefe, Christopher Napier, Lindsey Felton, Brent McCusker, Phil O’Keefe)
2008 The State and Uneven Development: The Case of Kenya’s ASAL Areas. Critical
Geography Conference, Ohio University, Athens, October 3 – 5
2008 The State and Food Insecurity in Kenya’s ASAL Areas, Poster Presentation – West
Virginia University, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Research Horizons Day, March
13
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2001 The Influence of Improved Woodstove Use on Intra-household Resource Allocation in
Rural Vihiga, Kenya, Kenyatta University Postgraduate Seminar- 12 – 14 October,
Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya
Invited Presentations
2014 Social and Environmental Contexts of Food, SUNY Oneonta Center for Social Science
Research (CSSR) Diversity Series Program, April 10
2013 Food Security vs. Food Sovereignty: GMOs and Africa’s Moral/Ethical Dilemma,
SUNY Oneonta, Department of Africana and Latino Studies, Dr. Ralph Watkins Lecture
Series, November 13
2013 Rural Women and Environmental Change: Anecdotes from Kenya and Malawi, SUNY
Oneonta, Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, Gender Out of Bounds Seminar,
October 1
2013 Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai Documentary Discussant, SUNY Oneonta
Gender Equality and Rights Society, February 13
2013 The Refugee Crisis in Kenya – Heshima Project, Dining For Women, Oneonta Chapter
January 20
2012 Neoliberalism and Livelihood Change in rural Western Kenya, Eduardo Mondlane
Brown Bag series of the Africa Initiative, Syracuse University, April 4
2012 Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai Documentary Discussant, SUNY Oneonta
Students for Global Education, December 3
2010 Gender and Rural Development in Kenya, Geography of Gender Class, West Virginia
University March 11
SERVICE
Service to the University
Sept 2013 – May 2014 - Geography Department Representative – SUNY Oneonta College
Library Committee
Service to the Department
Student Advisor
Service to the Community
Jan 2012 – Feb 2014 Secretary - United Women of Africa Organization (Central New York)
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PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION
American Association of Geographers
Association for the Study of Food and Society
Kenya Scholars and Studies Association
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