PhD Dissertations in Geography
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1927 Leighly, John Barger "A Study in Urban Morphology: the towns of Malardalen in Sweden."
1930 Kniffen, Fred Bowerman "The Delta Country of the Colorado, Mexico."
1930 Thornthwaite, Charles Warren "Louisville, Kentucky: a study in urban geography."
1931 Dicken, Samuel Newton "The Big Barrens: a morphologic study in the Kentucky karst."
1933 Brand, Donald Dilworth "The Historical Geography of Northwestern Chihuahua."
1933 Meigs, Peveril, III "The Dominican Missions of Lower California: a chapter in historical geography."
1935 Raup, Hallock Floyd "Settlement and Settlement Forms of the Pennsylvania Dutch at the Forks of the Delaware, Northampton County, Pennsylvania."
1936 Spencer, Joseph Earle "The Middle Virgin River Valley, Utah: a study in culture growth and change."
1937 Post, Lauren Chester "The Cultural Geography of the Prairies of Southwest Louisiana."
1938 Kesseli, John Ernest "Pleistocene Glaciation in the Valleys Between Lundy Canyon and Rock Creek, Eastern Slope of the Sierra Nevada, California."
1940 Bruman, Henry John "Aboriginal Drink Areas in New Spain." (Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, California)
1940 Hewes, Leslie "The Geography of the Cherokee Country of Oklahoma." (Department of Geography, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska)
1940 McBryde, Felix Webster "Native Economy of Southwestern Guatemala, and Its Natural Background." (McBryde Center for Human Ecology, 10100 Fall Road, Potomac, Maryland)
1941 Bowman, Robert Goldthwait "Soil Erosion in Puerto Rico." (Department of Geography, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska)
1942 Carter, George Francis "Plant Geography and Culture History in the American Southwest." (Department of Geography, Texas A&M, College Station, Texas)  
1943 Blumenstock, David Irving "Drought Lengths and Frequencies in the United States."
1943 Richardson, Robert William "Summer Air Transport Along the Coast of Central California: a microclimatic study of a wind gap and some observed effects of wind on trees." (Department of Geography, California State University, San Diego, California)
1944 Clark, Andrew Hill "The South Island of New Zealand."
1944 Stanislawski, Dan "The Historical Geography of Michoacan."
1946 West, Robert Cooper "The Economic Structure of the Mining Community in Northern New Spain: the Parral Mining District." (Department of Geography, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana)
1948 Parsons, James Jerome "Antioqueno Colonization in Western Colombia: an historical geography."
1949 Bartz, Patricia McBride "Physical Aspects of Ground Water Use in the Upper San Joaquin Valley." (Falls Church, Virginia)
1950 Price, Edward Thomas, Jr. "Mixed-Blood Populations of Eastern United States as to Origins, Localizations, and Persistence." (Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
1951 Hammond, Edwin Hughes "Landforms of the Cape Region, Baja California." (Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee)
1951 Rostlund, Erhard "A Distribution Study of Fresh-water Fish and Fishing in Aboriginal America North of Mexico."
1953 Doran, Edwin Beale, Jr. "A Physical and Cultural Geography of the Cayman Islands." (Department of Geography, Texas A&M; University, College Station, Texas)
1953 Miller, David Hewitt "Snow Cover and Climate in the Sierra Nevada, California." (Department of Geological & Geophysical Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
1953 Patton, Clyde Perry "Climatology of Summer Fogs in the San Francisco Bay Area." (Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
1953 Wagner, Philip Laurence "Nicoya: historical geography of a Central American lowland community." (Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada)
1953 Zelinsky, Wilbur "Settlement Patterns of Georgia." (Department of Geography, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania)
1954 Arnold, Brigham Alicen "Landforms and Early Human Occupation of the Laguna Seca Chapala Area, Baja, California, Mexico." (Department of Geography, California State University, Sacramento, California)
1954 Aschmann, Harold Homer "The Ecology, Demography, and Fate of the Indians of the Central Desert of Baja California."
1954 Gordon, Burton Leroy "Human Geography and Ecology in the Sinú Country of Colombia." (Department of Geography, California State University, San Francisco, California)
1954 Sopher, David Edward "The Sea Nomads: a study of the maritime boat people of Southeast Asia, based on the literature."
1955 Alexander, Charles Stevenson "The Geography of Margarita and Adjacent Islands, Venezuela."
1956 Burcham, Levi Turner "Historical Geography of the Range Livestock of California."
1956 Court, Arnold "Statistical Bases of Wind Analysis." (Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge, California)
1956 Simoons, Frederick John "The Peoples and Economy of Begemder and Semyen, Ethiopia." (Department of Geography, University of California, Davis, California)
1957 Kramer, Fritz Louis "Distribution of Primitive Tillage." (Department of Geography, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon)
1957 Merrill, Gordon Clark "The Historical Geography of St. Kitts and Nevis, British West Indies." (Department of Geography, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada)
1957 Tuan, Yi-Fu "The Origin of Pediments in Southeastern Arizona." (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin)
1958 Innis, Donald Quayle "Human Ecology in Jamaica."
1959 Barrett, Ward Judson "Agriculture of Western Samoa." (Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
1959 Johannessen, Carl Lewis "The Geography of the Savannas of Interior Honduras." (Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
1959 Mikesell, Marvin Wray "The Northern Zone of Morocco: a study of rural settlement and its effect on the land." (Department of Geography, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois)
1959 Pennington, Campbell White "The Material Culture of the Tarahumar and Their Environment." (Department of Geography, Texas A&M; University, College Station, Texas)
1959 Street, John M. "Historical and Economic Geography of the Southwest Peninsula of Haiti."
1959 Vann, John Herman "The Physical Development of the Parras Basin, Coahuila, Mexico." (Department of Geography, California State University, Hayward, California)
1960 Beaty, Chester Broomell "Gradational Processes in the White Mountains of California and Nevada." (Department of Geography, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
1961 Coffin, Harry Caithness "Marine Influence on the Climate of Southern California in Summer." (Department of Geography, California State University, Los Angeles, California)
1962 Edwards, Clinton R. "Aboriginal Water-craft of Western South America: distribution history and problems of origin." (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
1962 Urquhart, Alvin Willard "Patterns of Settlement and Subsistence in Southwestern Angola." (Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon)
1963 Denevan, William Maxfield "The Aboriginal Settlement of the Llanos de Mojos: a seasonally inundated savanna in northeastern Bolivia." (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin)
1963 Harris, David Russell "Plants, Animals and Man in the Outer Leeward Islands, West Indies: an ecological study of Antigua, Barbuda, and Anguilla." (Institute of Archaeology, University College, University of London, London, England)
1963 Talbot, Lee Merriam "The Ecology of Western Masailand, East Africa." (McLean, Virginia)
1964 Vermeer, Donald Eugene "Agricultural and Dietary Practices Among the Tvi, Ibo, and Birom Tribes, Nigeria." (Department of Geography, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
1965 Erickson, Kenneth A. "The Morphology of Lumber Settlement in Western Oregon and Washington." (Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado)
1965 Pederson, Leland Roger "The Mining Industry of the Norte Chico, Chile." (Department of Geography, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona)
1966 Andress, Joel Max "Culture and Habitat in the Central Himalayas." (Department of Geography, Central Washington State College, Ellensburg, Washington)
1967 Bowden, Martyn John "The Dynamics of City Growth: an historical geography of the San Francisco central business district, 1850-1931." (Department of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts)
1967 Cermakian, Jean "The Canalization of the Moselle River: a study in the historical geography of transportation." (Department of Geography, Universite du Quebec, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada)
1967 Collett, Ray Thomas, Jr. "Interpretations of the California Landscape." (Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Cruz, California)
1967 Frenkel, Robert Edgar "Adventive Vegetation on Certain California Roadsides." (Department of Geography, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon)
1967 Markham, Charles Grem "Climatological Aspects of Drought in Northeasten Brazil." (Department of Geography, California State University, Fresno, California)
1967 Marr, Paul Donald "The Impact of Irrigation on Urban Structure." (Department of Geography, New York State University, Albany, New York)
1967 Sawatzky, Harry Leonard "Mennonite Colonization in Mexico--a study in the survival of traditionalist society." (Department of Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
1967 Shlemon, Roy James "Landform-Soil Relationships in Northern Sacramento County, California." (Roy Shlemon Associates, P.O. Box 3066, Newport Beach, California 92663)
1967 Wilken, Gene Cady "Drained-field Agriculture in Southwestern Tlaxcala, Mexico." (Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado)
1968 Clarke, William Carey "The Ndwimba Basin, Bismarck Mountains, New Guinea: place and people." (Department of Geography, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji)
1968 Ellefsen, Richard Arthur "The Milk Supply of Major Indian Cities." (Department of Geography, California State University, San Jose, California)
1968 Krogzemis, James Ralph "A Historical Geography of the Santa Marta Area, Colombia." (c/o Wagon Lits Cook, Paris, France)
1968 Peet, John Richard "The Spatial Expansion of Commercial Agriculture in the Nineteenth Century: a theoretical analysis of British import zones and the movement of farming into the interior United States." (Department of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts)
1968 Wallach, Bret "The Geographical Consequences of Oil Land Tenure at the Midway-Sunset Oil Field, California." (Department of Geography, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma)
1968 Lier, John "The Impact of the Rural Economy on Urban Structure and Form in the Canadian Wheat Belt." (Department of Geography, California State University, Hayward, California)
1969 Claus, Robert James "The Spatial Dynamics of a Population of Gasoline Service Stations, Santa Clara County."
1969 Groves, Paul Anthony "The Intrametropolitan Location of Manufacturing in the San Francisco Bay Area." (Department of Geography, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland)
1969 Pagenhart, Thomas Harsha "Water Use in the Yuba and Bear River Basins, California." (Department of Geography, California State University, Hayward, California)
1969 Radell, David Richard "An Historical Geography of Western Nicaragua: the spheres of influence on Leon, Granada, and Managua, 1519-1965." (Department of Geography, California State University, Los Angeles)
1970 Barrett, Elinore Magee "Land Tenure and Settlement in the Tepalcatepec Lowland, Michoacan, Mexico." (Department of Geography, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico)
1970 Brown, William Henry, Jr. "Class Aspects of Residential Development and Choice in the Oakland Black Community." (Department of Geography, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington)
1970 Cobban, James L. "The City on Java: an essay in historical geography." (Department of Geography, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio)
1970 Decker, Bryce Gilmore "Plants, Man and Landscape in Marquesan Valleys, French Polynesia." (Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii)
1970 Lobb, C. Gary "The Historical Geography of the Cattle Regions Along Brazil's Southern Frontier." (Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge, California)
1970 Salter, Christopher Lord "The Geography of Marginality: a study of migration, settlement, and agricultural development in the Rift Valley of Eastern Taiwan." (Department of Geography, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO)
1970 Walker, Gerald Earl "Rural Settlement in the Far West: 1850-1880--Sonoma County." (Department of Geography, York University, Downsview, Ontario, Canada)
1971 Code, William "The Spatial Dynamics of Financial Intermediaries: an interpretation of the distribution of financial decision-making in Canada." (Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada)
1971 Doughty, Robin Whitaker "Feather Fashions and Bird Preservation: a study in nature protection." (Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, Texas)
1971 MacPherson, Anne "The Human Geography of Alexander von Humboldt." (El Cerrito, California)
1971 Minard, Claude "Quaternary Beaches and Coasts Between the Russian River and Drakes Bay, California" (Department of Geography, Sonoma State College, Rohnert Park, California)
1971 Rees, Peter "Route Inertia and Route Competition: an historical geography of transportation between Mexico City and Vera Curz." (Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware)
1971 Sargent, Charles "Urban Dynamics and the Changing Pattern of Residential Development, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1870-1930." (Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona)
1971 Wilvert, Calvin "The Southward Migration of Dairying in Australia." (Department of Geography, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, California)
1972 Bowen, William A. "Migration and Settlement of a Far Western Frontier: Oregon to 1850." (Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge, California)
1972 George, Glen "Spatial Diffusion: an intra-urban case study." (Department of Geography, California State University, Fullerton, California)
1972 Reed, Robert R. "The Origins of the Philippine City: a comparative inquiry concerning indigenous Southeast Asian settlement and Spanish colonial urbanism." (Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley, California)
1972 Rosenvall, Lynn Albert "Mormon Settlement Patterns: 1830-1900." (Department of Geography, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada)
1973 Barnett, Roger Thomas "Suburban Subdivision: the morphogenesis of housing in Stockton, 1850-1950." (Department of Geography, University of the Pacific, Stockton, California)  
1973 Bunkse, Edmund Valdemars "The Earth, the Forest and the Sea: landscape attitudes of the Latvian folk." (Department of Geography, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware)
1973 Gohstand, Robert "The Internal Geography of Trade in Moscow from the Mid-nineenth Century to the First World War." (Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge, California)
1973 Henderson, Arvin Tarleton, Jr. "The Development of Central Queensland: regional growth in a resource frontier." (Cities Commission, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia)
1973 McLennan, Marshall Seaton "Peasant and Hacendero in Nueva Ecija: the socio-economic origins of a Philippine commercial rice-growing region." (Department of Geography, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan)
1973 Paul, Erik Charles "The Viability of Singapore: an aspect of modern political geography." (Department of Geography, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
1973 Rowntree, Rowan Allan "Morphological Change in a California Estuary: sedimentation and marsh invasion at Bolinas Lagoon." (Pacific SW Forest and Range Experiment Station, Berkeley)
1973 Vale, Thomas Randolph "The Sagebrush Landscape of the Intermountain West." (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin)
1973 Winters, Christopher "Cities of the Pondo: the geography of urbanism in the interior Niger Delta of Mali." (University Library, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois)
1973 ZumBrunnen, Craig "The Geography of Water Pollution of the Soviet Union." (Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington)
1974 Berdoulay, Vincent Raymond Henri "The Emergence of the French School of Geography--1870-1914." (Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada)
1974 Burns, Elizabeth Kates "The Process of Suburban Residential Development: the San Francisco Peninsula, 1860-1970." (Department of Geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona)
1974 Chow, Willard Tim "The Reemergence of an Inner City: the pivot of Chinese settlement in the East Bay Region of the San Francisco Bay Area." (Department of General Planning, City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii)
1974 Pederson, Eldor Olin "Land Subdivision, Land Speculation, and Urban Form: an essay on urban morphology." (Department of Geography, George Washington University, Washington, D.C.)
1975 Baxter, Michael W.P. "Garimpieros of Poxoreo: small scale diamond miners and their environment in Brazil." (World Bank, Box 46, New Delhi, India)
1975 Dingemans, Dennis James "The Townhouse in the Suburbs: a study of changing urban morphology and social space in American suburbs, 1960-1974." (Department of Geography, University of California, Davis, California)
1975 Kane, Phillip Stanley "The Glacial Geomorphology of the Lassen Volcanic National Park Area." (Department of Geography, California State University, Northridge, California)
1975 Rutledge, William Haney "Morphology During the Growth of the Los Angeles Conurbation, 1900-1970." (Oakland, California)
1975 Veblen, Thomas Thorstein "The Ecological, Cultural and Historical Bases of Forest Preservation in Totonicapán, Guatemala." (Department of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado)
1975 Eichel, Marijean Hamilton "Dalmatia in Microcosm: an historical geography of changing land use on Brac, Yugoslavia." (Department of History and Geography, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia)
1975 Foster, Richard Harry, Jr. "Location and Function of Mobile Home Parks: the case of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area." (Department of Geography, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)
1975 Gwan, Emmanuel Achu "Types, Processes and Policy Implications of the Various Migrations in Western Cameroon." (Department of Geography, Yaounde University, Yaounde, Cameroon Republic)
1976 Berg, Donald James "Second Homes on the National Forests: changing patterns and values of recreational land use in California." (Department of Geography, South Dakota State Univ., Brooking, SD 57007)
1976 Elgie, Robert A. "Racial Inequality Within a Socio-Spatial System: the southeastern U.S., 1950-1970." (Department of Geography, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York)
1976 Floyd, Donald Ray "Attitudes Toward Nature in Swedish Folklore." (Social Sciences Department, California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo)
1976 Quinn, Mary-Louise "Water Management and Use in the Upper Delaware River Basin, 1890-1970." (Lincoln, Nebraska)
1976 Yoon, Hong-Key "Geomantic Relationships between Culture and Nature in Korea." (Department of Geography, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)
1976 Dillon, Marsha Bratten "A Struggle to Survive Commercial Navigation in California's Central Valley." (Department of Geography, Sacramento State University, Sacramento, California)
1976 Smith, Nigel J. "Transamazon Highway: a cultural-ecological analysis of settlement in the Humid Tropics." (Department of Geography, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida)
1977 Ferrario, Francesco "The Tourist Landscape: a method of evaluating tourist potential and its application to South Africa." (Vicolo Canonica 4, 28100 Novara, Italy)
1977 Herr, Valerie Jean "Economic Growth and Population Relocation: the determinants of settlement evolution in Northern Spain, 1860-1900." (Berkeley, California)
1977 Jordan, Kenneth Allen "The Geography of Consumer Economics Among Black Americans in Oakland: a cultural-behavioral perspective."
1977 Merrill, Pamela Joy "American Involvement and the Resurgence in the Australian Cotton Growing Industry, 1962-1972." (Australian National Park Service, Canberra, Australia)
1977 Schuh, Janet Crane "People and Place in Transition: Pangoa, Upper Central Montana of Peru." (Salem, MA)
1978 Monteverdi, John Paul "A Meteorological Analysis of the Variability of Precipitation in the Great Plains, USA." (Department of Geosciences, California State University, San Francisco, California)
1978 Henry, Curtis Charles "The Spatial Interaction of Black Families in Suburban Cities in the Bay Area: a study of Black subsystem linkages." (City of Oakland, Oakland, California)
1978 Exline, Christopher Hollis "The Impacts of Growth Control Legislation on Two Suburban Communities: Marin and Sonoma Counties, California." (Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada)
1978 Ross, Toby Arthur "Rural Residential Development in Sonoma County, California." (Planning Department, Park City, UT)
1978 Felton, Catherine Marie Mancino "Energy Budget Study of a South San Francisco Bay Tidal Salt Marsh." (Department of Geosciences, California State University, San Francisco, California)
1978 Helgeson, Ann Cornell "Soviet Internal Migration and its Regulation Since Stalin: the controlled and the uncontrollable." (Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin, TX)
1979 Miller, Roger Pierce "A Time-Geographic Assessment of the Impact of Horsecar Transportation on Suburban Non-Heads-of-Household in Philadelphia, 1850-1860." (Department of Geography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota)
1979 Ogbonna, Okoro David "The Geographic Consequences of Petroleum in Nigeria with Special Reference to the Rivers State." (Department of Geography, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria)
1979 Yeager, Ruth Marie "Refugee Settlement and Village Change in the District of Serres, Greece, 1912-1940." (Colorado Water Conservation Board, Denver, Colorado)
1979 Rossi, Randall Steven "Land Use and Vegetation Change in the Oak Woodland-Savanna of Northern San Luis Obispo County, California (1774-1978)."
1980 Fish, Merle Gerald, Jr. "EL CULTIVO DE ROZA: shifting cultivation in a dry forest of northwest Mexico." (Department of Biology, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina)
1980 Henderson, Krimhilde Trescher "Farm and Forest on the Dorrigo: a historical-ecological study of land use conflict in northern New South Wales." (7 Banvard Place, Chapman, A.C.T. 2611, Australia)  
1980 Lochhead, Elspeth Nora "The Emergence of Academic Geography in Britain in its Historical Context." (PIEDA [Planning, Econ and Devel. Consultants] 52 Queens Rd, Reading, UK)
1981 Kooser, Jaime Claire "Regulation and System Interdependence: effects of the siting of California electrical energy facilities."  
1981 Lewis, Nancy Davis "Ciguatera, Health, and Human Adaptation in the Island Pacific." (Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii)
1981 Liebman, Ellen "The Evolution of Large Agricultural Landholdings in California." (Richmond, CA)  
1982 Michaelsen, Joel Christian "Large-Scale, Long Period Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the North Pacific Region." (Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, California)
1982 Savage, Victor Roger "Western Cognition of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia." (Department of Geography, University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
1982 Yagasaki, Noritaka "Ethnic Cooperativism and Immigrant Agriculture: a study of Japanese floriculture and truck farming in California." (Department of Geography, University of Yokohama, Japan)
1982 Hecht, Susanna Bettina "Cattle Ranching Development in the Eastern Amazon: evaluation of a development policy." (School of Public Policy and Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, California)
1982 Storper, Michael Charles "The Spatial Division of Labor: technology, the labor process, and the location of industries." (School of Public Policy and Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, California)
1983 Christopherson, Susan Marie "Family and Class in the New Industrial City." [Ciudad Juarez, Mexico] (Department of City Planning, Cornell University)
1983 Groth, Paul Erling "The Evolution and Exclusion of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Rooming Houses, and Lodging Houses in American Cities, 1880-1930." (Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, California)  
1983 Murphy, Michael Edward "Irrigation in the Bajio Region of Colonial Mexico." (San Francisco, California)
1983 Priestaf, Iris Gail "Sacramento River Seepage: alternative mitigating measures." (D.K. Todd Consulting Engineering, Berkeley, California)
1983 Bassin, Mark "A Russian Mississippi? A Political-Geographical Inquiry into the Vision of Russia on the Pacific, 1840-1865." (Department of Geography, University College, London, England)
1983 Harms, Richard William "Cirques of the Marble Mountains, Northwestern California." (Bethesda, MD)
1983 Heiman, Michael Kenneth "Regional Planning and Land Use Reform for Conservation and Development in New York State." (Department of Environmental Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA)
1983 Lev-Ari, Aviva "Corporate Growth and Locational Interdependence: Observations on the Production, Location, Merger Activity and Organizational Structure of American Paper Companies." (MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA)
1984 Hale, George Robert "Reassessment of the Death Valley-Colorado River Overflow Hypothesis in Light of New Evidence." (Oakland, CA)
1984 Nelson, Kristin Louise "Back Offices and Female Labor Markets: Office Suburbanization in the San Francisco Bay Area." (Berkeley, CA)
1984 Bassett, Thomas Joseph "Food, Peasantry and the State in the Northern Ivory Coast: 1898-1982." (Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois)
1984 Godfrey, Brian John "Inner-City Neighborhoods in Transition: The Morphogensis of San Francisco's Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities." (Department of Geography, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York)  
1984 Marburg, Sandra Lin "Man's Role, Woman's Place: Images of Women in Human Geography." (Oakland, CA)
1985 Beck, Joanna Eunice "Environmental Determinism in Twentieth Century American Geography: Reflections in Professional Journals." (Laney College, Oakland, California)
1986 Greenberg, Douglas Andrew "Growth and Conflict at the Suburban Fringe: The Case of the Livermore-Amador Valley, California." (Berkeley, California)
1986 Horn, Sally Peterson "Fire and Paramo Vegetation in the Cordillera de Talamanca, Costa Rica." (Department of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee)
1986 Bender, Alan Richard "Flying on the "Cheap": The Morphogenesis of Affordable Airline Transportation in America." (Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Sacramento)
1986 Carney, Judith Ann "The Social History of Gambian Rice Production: An Analysis of Food Shortages." (Department of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, California)
1986 Sowers, Frederick Walter "Moving On: Migration and Agropastoral Production Among the Fulbe in Southern Burkina Faso." (USAID, Niamey, Niger)
1986 Veldhuyzen van Zanten, Tisna "Migration and Household Reproduction. A Study Among the Bissa of Burkina Faso." (USAID, Niamey, Niger)
1987 Brower, Barbara Anne "Livestock and Landscape: The Sherpa Pastoral System in Sagarmatha (Mt. Everest) National Park, Nepal" (Department of Geography, Portland State University)
1987 Milukas, Matthew Vitalis "Energy Flow in a Secondary City: A Case Study of Nakuru, Kenya" (Lahmeyer International, Jakarta, Indonesia)
1987 Pudup, Mary Beth "Land Before Coal: Class and Regional Development in Southeast Kentucky" (Community Studies, College Eight, University of California, Santa Cruz, California)
1987 Semans, Cheryl Ann "Mapping the Unknown: Jesuit Cartography in China, 1583-1773" (Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley)
1987 Lewis, Martin "Mansida in Bugaias: Economic, Ecological, and Ideological Transformations in the Philippine Cordillera" (International Relations, Stanford University)
1987 Stine, Scott "The Past 4000 Years at Mono Lake" (Department of Geography, CSU East Bay, Hayward, CA)
1987 Voeks, Robert "A Biogeography of the Piassava Fiber Palm (Attalea funifera Mart.) of Bahia, Brazil" (Department of Geography, California State University, Fullerton)
1988 Dobkin, Marjorie "Biography Formation and Daily Life in a Frontier City: The Joint Constitution of Society and Subjects in San Francisco, 1848-1858." (San Francisco, CA)
1988 Eley, Thomas "Hunters of the Reefs: The Marine Geography of the Kiwai, Papua New Guinea" (U. S. Fish & Game, Fairbanks, AK)
1988 Raburn, Robert "Motor Freight and Urban Morphogenesis with Reference to California and the West" (Oakland, CA)
1988 Zimmerer, Karl "Seeds of Peasant Subsistence: Agrarian Structure, Crop Ecology, and Quechua Agriculture in Reference to the Loss of Biological Diversity in the Southern Peruvian Andes." (Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin))  
1989 Bernhardson, Wayne "Land and Life in the Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas)." (484 Pedestrian Way, Oakland, California 94618)
1989 Sicular, Daniel "Scavengers and the Development of Solid Waste Management in Indonesian Cities." (Berkeley, CA)
1989 Starrs, Paul "Home Ranch: Ranchers, the Federal Government, and the Partitioning of Western North American Rangeland." (Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, NV)
1989 Stevens, Stanley "Sherpa Settlement and Subsistence: Cultural Ecology and History in Highland Nepal." (Dept. of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA)
1989 Fondahl, Gail Andrea "Native Economy and Northern Development: Reindeer Husbandry in Transbaykalia" (Department of Geography, University of Northern British Columbia at Prince George)
1989 Gaubatz, Piper Rae "Beyond the Great Wall: China's Multi-cultural Frontier Cities" (Dept. of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003-0026)
1989 Sullivan, Donald George "Human-Induced Vegetation Change in Western Turkey: Pollen Evidence from Central Lydia" (Department of Geography, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado 80208-0183)
1989 Walsh, Kathleen Dolan "Cattle of the Moon: Religion and Ritual in the Domestication and Early History of Bos Primigenius in the Mediterranean Region" (Oakland, CA)
1990 Huang, Lee-Chiu "Spatial and Temporal Climatic Variations in the Tropical Atlantic and their Relationships to ENSO" (Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, ROC)
1990 Wright, John Burghardt "Conserving Rocky Mountain Places: The Planning, Development and Protection of Privately-Owned Lands in Colorado and Utah" (Department of Geography, New Mexico State University-Las Cruces, New Mexico)
1990 Jarosz, Lucy Antonina "Rice on Shares: Agrarian Change and the Development of Sharecropping in Alaotra, Madagascar" (Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195)
1990 McDonald, Mary Grace "Displacing Rice: Factories in the Fields of Farm Power in Tohoku, Japan" (Department of Geography, University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822)
1990 Wigen, Karen Esther "Regional Inversions: The Spatial Contours of Economic Change in the Southern Japanese Alps, 1750-1920" (Department of History, Stanford University, Stanford, CA)
1990 Argenbright, Robert Thomas "The Russian Railroad System and the Founding of the Communist State: 1917-1922" (Department of Geography,University of North Carolina at Willmington)
1990 Rice, Robert Armstrong "Transforming Agriculture: The Case of Coffee Leaf Rust and Coffee Renovation in Southern Nicaragua" (Smithsonian Migratory Bird Center,National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.)
1991 Cartier, Carolyn "Mercantile Cities on the South China Coast: Ningbo, Fuzhou, and Siamen, 1840-1930" (Department of Geography, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA)
1991 Lee, Jeongman "The Generation of Sacrifice: Modernization and Korean Farmers" (Department of Geography, Seoul National University, Korea)
1992 Orvis, Kenneth Howard "Probabalistic Physiographic Approach to Modeling Summer Rainfall in the Sonoran Desert" (Dept. of Geography, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-1420)  
1992 Henderson, George Lawlor "Regions and Realism: Social Space, Regional Transformation, and the Novel in California, 1882-1924" (Dept. of Geography and Cultural Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ)
1992 Proctor, James Davis "The Owl, the Forest, and the Trees: Eco-Idealogical Conflict in the Pacific Northwest" (Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106)
1992 Blumler, Mark Allan "Seed Weight and Environment in Mediterranean-Type Grasslands in California and Israel" (Dept. of Geography, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton, NY 13902)
1992 Ellison, Joanna Clare "Mangrove Response to Rising Sea-Level, Bermuda" (Australian Institute of Marine Science, PMB No. 3, Townsville, Queensland 4810, Australia)
1992 Muldavin, Joshua Semyon Sylvan "China's Decade of Rural Reforms: The Impact of Agrarian Change on Substainable Development" (Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY)
1992 Neumann, Roderick Paul "The Social Origins of Natural Resource Conflict in Arusha National Park, Tanzania" (Dept. of INR, Florida International University, University Park, Miami, FL 33199)
1993 Berman, Deborah Santana "Kicking Off the Bootstraps: Environmental, Development and Community Power in Puerto Rico" (Department of Liberal Studies, Mills College, Oakland, CA)
1993 Yang, Ying "Image and Reality of Chinese Landscape: With Special Reference to Tourism" (Long Beach, CA)
1993 Page, Brian Kirby "Agro-Industrialization and Rural Transformation: The Restructuring of Midwestern Meat Production" (Dept. of Geography & Geology, University of Colorado, Campus Box 172, Denver, CO 80208-0183)
1993 Mitchell, Katharyne Wilcox "Facing Capital: Cultural Politics in Vancouver" (Dept. of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195)
1993 Hoffmann, Shirley Dianne "Subsistence in Transition: Indigenous Agriculture in Amazonas, Venezuela" (Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance, USAID, Washington, D.C.)
1993 Howard, Thomas Frederick "Breaching the Mountain Barrier: The First Roads Over the Sierra Nevada" (Dept. of History, Armstrong College, 11935 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA 31419)
1993 Schroeder, Richard Allan "Shady Practice: Gender and the Political Ecology of Resource Stabilization in Gambian Garden/Orchards" (Department of Geography, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903-5080)
1993 Clapp, Roger Alexander Jeffrey "The Forest at the End of the World: The Transition from Old-Growth to Plantation Forestry in Chile" (Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Canada)
1993 Cook, Charles Eugene "The Historical Biogeography and Phylogeny of Sika Deer (Cervus nippon) in East Asia"
1993 Whitesell, Edward Albert "Changing Courses: the Jurua River, Its People and Amazonian Extractive Reserves" (Environmental Studies, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA)
1993 Griggs, Richard Allen "The Role of Fourth World Nations and Synchronous Geopolitical Factors in the Breakdown of States" (Director, Research Division of an NGO in Durban, South Africa)
1993 Mensing, Scott Andrew "The Impact of European Settlement on Oak Woodlands and Fire: Pollen and Charcoal Evidence from the Transverse Ranges, California" (University of Nevada, Department of Geography, Reno, NV 89557-0048)
1994 Krantz, Timothy Paul "A Phytogeography of the San Bernardino Mountains, San Bernardino County, California" (Department of Environmental Studies, University of the Redlands, Redlands, CA)
1994 Suryanata, Krisnawata "Fruits of Change: Agroforestry, Land and Society in Upland Java" (Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI)  
1994 Hsu, Mei-Ling "A Grid-Based Model for Predicting Soil Depth and Shallow Landslides" (Department of Geography, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan)
1994 Craddock, Susan Leigh "Diseases on the Margin: Morphologies of Tuberculosis and Smallpox in San Francisco, 1860-1940" (Department of Women's Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721)
1994 Larson, David John "The Energy Economy of Northwestern New Mexico with Special Reference to Uranium Development" (Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, California State University, East Bay, CA 94542)
1994 Mutersbaugh, Tad "Cooperatives, Households and the Village Commune: Time-Geographies of Cooperative Production in an Oaxacan Village" (Department of Geography, The University of Iowa, 315 Jessup Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242)
1995 Koshear, Jeannine "Traditional Agricultural Resource Management and Ethnobotany of the Guaymi, Coto Brus, Costa Rica" (California State Parks, Millerton Lake SRA, P.O. Box 205, Fresno, CA 93626)
1995 Organ, David Joseph "The Historical Geography of African American Frontier Settlement" (Department of Geography, Dillard University, New Orleans, LA)
1995 Vasile, Elizabeth Aristie "The Greening of Tunis: Ghettoization and the Prosaics of Piety" (Management Consultant for Business Designs Associates, Alameda, CA)
1995 Hirsch, Eric "Pure Sources, Pure Souls: Folk Nationalism and Folk Music in Hungary in the 1930's" (Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.)
1996 Edlund, Eric Gustaf "The Late Quaternary History of Sierra Nevada Montane Forests" (Department of Geography, University of Montana, Missoula, Montana 59812-1018)
1996 Freidberg, Susanne Elizabeth "Making a Living: A Social History of Market-Garden Work in the Regional Economy of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso" (Department of Geography, Darmouth College)
1996 Kraus, Martine Marie Louise "A Comparative Study of the Development and Regulation of Biotechnology in Germany and the United States" (Manager of International Regulatory Affairs, Alza Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Mt. View, California)
1996 Pomeroy, Susan Myrrl "Gendered Places, Virtual Spaces: A Feminist Geography of Cyberspace"
1996 Goman, Michelle "A History of Holocene Environmental Change in the San Francisco Estuary" (Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University)
1996 Hidalgo-Monroy Wohlgemuth, Neusa "Organic Agriculture and Indigenous Communities in Chiapas, Mexico: An Alternative to Rural Development"
1997 Cochrane, Michelle "The Social Construction of Knowledge(s) on HIV and AIDS: With a Case Study of the History and Practices of AIDS Surveillance Activities in San Francisco"
1997 Hsu, Jinn-Yuh "A Late Industrial District? Learning Networks in the Hsinchu Science-based Industrial Park, Taiwan" (Geography Department, National Taiwan University)
1997 Husmann, Lisa Eileen "Falling Lands, Rising Nations:Environmental Nationalism in China and Central Asia" (108 S. Bush St., Ukiah, CA 94587)
1997 O'Malley, Mark "Nature and the Body Politic: Hygiene and Ideology in Fin-de-Siecle Berlin" (Encyclopaedia Britannica)
1997 Schmitz, Charles "Privatization in Agriculture: A Case Study from South Yemen" (Department of Geography, Towson University)
1997 Smethurst, David Philip "Transforming the High Country: Absentee Ownership and Environmental Change in the Central Sierra"
1997 Walker, Peter Abel "Roots of Crisis: Population, Environment, and the Social History of Smallholder Tree Planting in Malawi" (Geography Department, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403)
1998 Brechin, Gray "Imperial San Francisco: The Environmental Impact of Urban Elites Upon the Pacific Basin" (Visiting Scholar, Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley)
1998 Johnson, Sharon Grace "Oaks at the Edge: Land Use Change in the Foothill Woodlands of the Central Sierra Nevada, California" (8 Marin Bay Park Court, San Rafael, CA 94901)
1998 Gardner, Florence "Redefining Flexibility: How Temporary and Contract Work Are Changing Employment Relation" (Research, AFL-CIO, Washington, D.C.)
1998 Jones, Jennifer "Unnatural Developments: Gendered Spaces and Childbirth Places in the Dominican Republic" (Highline Community College, Seattle, WA)
1998 Walker, Barbara Louise "Sisterhood and Seine-Nets: Engendering the Development, Science, and Conservation of Ghana's Marine Fishery" (PostDoctoral Fellow, Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara)
1999 Merrill, Heather "Speaking Subjects: Remaking Feminism and Race in the New Migrant Europe" (Department of Environmental Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA)
1999 Randlett, Victoria "Atomic Oasis: Las Vegas in its Golden Age, 1946-1958" (Department of Geography, University of Nevada, Reno, NV)
1999 McCarthy, James Patrick "The Political and Moral Economies of Wise Use" (Department of Geography, The Pennsylvania State University)
1999 McAfee, Kathleen Elaine "Selling Nature to Save It? Biodiversity and the Rise of Green Developmentalism" (Geography and Sustainable Development, Yale University, New Haven, CT)  
1999 Ross, Amy Jeanette "The Body of Truth: Negotiated Transitions and Truth Commissions in Guatemala and South Africa" (Department of Geography, University of Georgia)
1999 Sturgeon, Tim J. "Turn-Key Production Networks: Industry Organization, Economic Development, and the Globalization of Electronics Contract Manufacturing" (Executive Director,Globalization Project, Industrial Performance Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA)
2000 Chari, Sharad "The Agrarian Question Comes to Town: Making Knitwear Work in Tiruppur, South India" (Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics, England)
2000 Malamud-Roam, Karl Patrick "Muted Tidal Regimes in Marshes of the San Francisco Estuary: Theory and Implications for Ecological Restoration" (Wetlands Scientist, Contra Costa County Mosquito and Vector Control District, Concord, CA) View Dissertation as PDF here.
2000 Guthman, Julie Harriet "Agrarian Dreams? The Paradox of Organic Farming in California "(Community Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz)
2000 Trist, Carolyn Rachel "Changes in the Sea: The Political Ecology of Marine Management in Soufriere, St. Lucia"
2001 Davis, Diana K. "Overgrazing the Range? A Political Ecology of Pastoralism in Southern Morocco" (Department of Geography, University of Texas, Austin)
2001 Dull, Robert Andrew "El Bosque Perdido: A Cultural-Ecological History of Holocene Environmental Change in the Rio Paz Drainage Basin, Western El Salvador" (Department of Geography, Texas A&M University)
2001 Teisch, Jessica Beth "Engineering Progress: Californians and the Making of a Global Economy"
2001 Wolford, Wendy Wei-Chen "This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil" (Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
2001 Acker, Robert "The Geography of Political Fragmentation and Regional Integration in the Mekong River Valley"
2001 Churcher-Hoffmann, Tegan "Reefs of Plenty to Reefs of Death: The Political Ecology of Coral Reef Health in Fiji and the Cook Islands" (T.C. Hoffmann and Associates, Oakland, CA)
2001 Mena, Luz Maria "No Common Folk: Free Blacks and Race Relations in the Early Modernization of Havana (1830s-1840s)" (Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of California, Davis, CA)
2002 Buck, Daniel "Constructing China's Capitalism, Connecting Shanghai's Urban and Rural Industries" (School of Geography, Oxford University, Oxford, England)
2002 Davis, M. Kathryn "Sardine Oil on Troubled Waters: The Boom and Bust of California's Sardine Industry, 1905-1955" (Department of Geography, San Jose State University)
2002 Kosek, Jon (Jake) Gregory "The Political Life of Forests in Northern New Mexico"
2002 Lamoureux, Elisabeth A. "'I Can't Participate and Do What I Want': Female Labor Militancy in South Korea" (Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, CA)
2002 Malamud-Roam, Frances "A Late Holocene History of Vegetation Change in San Francisco Estuary Marshes Using Stable Carbon Isotopes and Pollen Analysis" (Postdoctoral Researcher, Geography, UC Berkeley)
2002 Nichols, Sandra L. "Saints, Peaches and Wine: Mexican Migrants and the Transformation of Los Haro, Zacatecas and Napa, California" (Research Analyst, California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis, California.)
2002 Oglesby, Elizabeth Ann "Politics at Work: Elites, Labor and Agrarian Modernization in Guatemala 1980-2000" (Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies, University of Arizona)
2002 Siegel, Stuart William "Slough Channel Network and Marsh Plain Morphodynamics in a Rapidly Accreting Tidal Marsh Restoration on Diked, Subsided Baylands, San Francisco Estuary, California" (Wetlands and Water Resources, San Rafael, CA)
2002 Weber, Peter Kilian "Geochemical Markers in the Otoliths of Chinook Salmon in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River System, California" (Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA)
2002 Freeman, James Patrick "Face to Face but Worlds Apart : The Geography of Class in the Public Space of Rio de Janeiro" (Department of Geography, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
2002 Johnson, Katherine "Federalism and the Origins of the Urban Crisis: The Geo-Politics of Housing and Highways, 1916-1956" (Department of Geography, University of Northern Colorado, Greely, CO)
2002 Wanket, James "Late Quaternary Vegetation and Climate of the Klamath Mountains" (Department of Geography, California State University, Sacramento)
2003 Bobrow-Strain, Aaron "Rethinking Thuggery: Landowners, Territory, and Violence in Chiapas, Mexico" (Politics Department, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA)
2003 Conserva, MariaElena "Long-term Climate and Vegetation Change on the Northern Frontier of Mesoamerica, Guanajuato, Mexico"
2003 DeRubertis, Diana "Severe Convective Storms and U.S. Climate Change in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century"
2003 Dolhinow, Rebecca "Borderlands Justice: Women's Community Activism in the Colonias of Dona Ana County, New Mexico" (Women's Studies, California State University, Fullerton, CA)
2004 Guthey, Greig Tor "Terroir and the Politics of Agro -Industry in Çalifornia's North Coast Wine District" (Postdoc, Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, Society and Environment Division, University of California, Berkeley)
2004 Howard, Jeanette Kay "Freshwater Mussels in California's North Coastal Streams: Current Status and Geomorphic Controls"
2004 Leal, Claudia María "Black Forests: The Pacific Lowlands of Colombia, 1850-1930" (Department of History, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia)
2004 Rogers, Clinton Bryce "The Re-Emergence of an Entrepreneurial Community in the Himalayan Highlands of Nepal: Commercial Opportunity, Cooperative Venture Financing, and Competitive Private Enterprise in Manang (Nyishang)"
2004 Smith, Francis James "Coastal Geography of Rip Currents: Pacific Ocean Beaches and Public Safety, San Francisco Area, California"
2004 Starratt, Scott William "Late Holocene Diatom and Geochemical Evidence of Freshwater Flow Variation in Northern San Francisco Bay, California" (U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA)
2005 Hunter, Mark "Building a Home: Unemployment, Intimacy, and AIDS in South Africa"
2005 Park, Jungjae "Holocene Climate Change and Human Environmental Impacts in Guanajuato, Mexico" (Department of Geography, Seoul National University, Korea)
2005 Roark, Erin Brendan "Biogeochemical Proxies of Environmental Change in Surface and Deep-sea Corals from the Pacific" (Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA)
2005 Wahl, David "Climate Change and Human Impacts in the Southern Maya Lowlands: A Paleoenvironmental Perspective from the Northern Peten, Guatemala" (U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, CA)
2005 Loyd, Jenna Morvren "Freedom's Body: Radical Health Activism in Los Angeles, 1963 to 1978"
2006 Karacas, Cary Lee "Tokyo From the Fire: War, Occupation, and the Remaking of a Metropolis"
2006 Bailey, Jodi L. "The Limits of Largess: International Environmental NGOs, Philanthropy, and Conservation"


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