Visiting Scholars 2003-2004
Aaron Bobrow-Strain
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
Research interests: political economy of development, Latin American, Mexico. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts
Gavin Bridge
PhD (Geography), Clark University; Associate Professor, Department of Geography, Syracuse University. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Scholar, UCB.
Research interests: industrial and economic geography, resource geography, environmental restructuring in the minerals industry. Faculty Sponsor: Richard Walker
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.
Michelle Cochrane
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1997.
Research interests: medical and human geography, HIV/AIDS surveillance practices and policies. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts
Debin Du
PhD (Geography), East China Normal University; Fulbright Scholar, UCB.
Research interests: urban/regional development, multinational corporation research and development in the U.S.. Faculty Sponsor: Richard Walker
Jeff Kavanaugh
PhD (Earth & Ocean Sciences), University of British Columbia, 2001.
Research interests: environmental glaciology, glacier bed processes (hydrology and subglacial deformation), field measurements and instrumentation. Faculty Sponsor: Kurt Cuffey
Elisabeth Lamoureux
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
Research interests: transformation of working-class life and labor activism in Korea, gender and labor. Faculty Sponsor: Richard Walker
Benjamin Lintner
PhD (Physics), University of California, Berkeley, 2003.
Research interests: mechanisms of El Niño-Southern Oscillation impact on the tropical climate, mechanisms of passive tracer transport; circulation interannual variability; model-observation intercomparison. Faculty Sponsor: John Chiang
Frances Malamud Roam
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
Research interests: paleo-environmental change, origins of agriculture, San Francisco Bay Estuary. Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Ingram
Thomas Schreiner
PhD (Architecture), University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
Research interests: environment and cultural implications of traditional Maya lime production; paleoenvironmental studies of North Peten lakes. Faculty Sponsor: Roger Byrne
David Smethurst
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1997.
Jessica Teisch
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2001.
Research interests: Jessica Teisch's interests lie at the crossroads of intellectual and environmental history. She has explored energy use in nineteenth-century California and examined the idea of progress in the late nineteenth century as carried out by Californian engineers, who fanned out across the globe with blueprints for social and environmental change. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Johns
Peter Weber
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
Research interests: geochemistry and biogeochemistry; salmonid juvenile life history; fisheries and aquatic conservation; wetland hydrology; formation of the early solar system. Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Ingram