Visiting Scholars 2000-2001
Michael Black
PhD (Political Science), University of Oregon, 1981.
Research interests: environmental theory, history, politics, policy, planning and education, economic planning and sustainable development: U.S., Europe and Third World. Faculty Sponsor: Richard Walker [2000-2001]
Iain Boal.
PhD (History of Science), University of Cambridge, 1991.
Research interests: environmental history, Luddism and resistance to modernization, the iconology of nature, low entropy technics, Kropotkin, 17th century science and medicine. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts [2000-2001]
Gray Brechin.
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Research interests: urban, environmental and art history focussing on environmental history, particularly the parallels between the decline of classical civilizations and present-day California; mining as conceptual model for all resource exploitation. [2000-2001]
Claire Hancock
PhD (Geography), Université Paris-IV Sorbonne, 1997; Professor, Université de Paris XII.
Research interests: cultural geography, tourism, urbanization, Anglo-French cultural geography. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Johns [March-April 2001]
Jeff Kavanaugh
PhD (Earth & Ocean Sciences), University of British Columbia, 2000.
Research interests: environmental glaciology, glacier bed processes (hydrology and subglacial deformation), field measurements and instrumentation. Faculty Sponsor: Kurt Cuffey [arriving January 2001]
Jeongman Lee
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1991. Professor of Geography, Seoul National University.
Research interests: urban cultural geography, human ecology. Faculty Sponsor: Robert Reed [August 2000 – February 2001]
Susan Pomeroy
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1996.
Research interests: geographies of cyberspace, technological mediation of social/spatial change, nonwestern cartographies, information mapping, invisible geographies, gender theory, Mexico.
Isha Ray
PhD (Agricultural Economics) Stanford University, 1997. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow.
Research interests: economic and institutional analysis of water management in rural areas, political economy of international water sharing, the effect of water shortages in small-farm agriculture. [September 2000 – August 2001]
Erica Schoenberger
PhD (City and Regional Planning) UC Berkeley, 1984. Professor of Geography, Johns Hopkins University.
Research interests: economic geography (corporate and industrial restructuring, technological change, new international division of labor), regional development. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Johns [July 2000–January 2001]