Visiting Scholars 2007-2008
Carl Anthony
BArch (Architecture), Columbia University, 1969; Ford Foundation Senior Fellow. Former President of the Earth Island Institute and he was co-founder, with Karl Linn, of Urban Habitat.
Research interests: sustainable metropolitan communities, environment and development.
Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker
Gray Brechin
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
Research interests: Dr. Brechin is co-director with photographer Robert Dawson of the New Deal Legacy Project sponsored by the California Historical Society which is documenting and mapping the largely invisible legacy of New Deal public works in California. The project will elucidate the vast expansion of the public domain during the administration of Franklin Roosevelt in order to demonstrate by contrast its collapse in our own time.
Michael Clifford
PhD (Philosophy), Vanderbilt University, 1989. Professor of Philosophy at Mississippi State University.
Research interests: social and political philosophy, liberal theory/politics of identity _contemporary continental philosophy, Michel Foucault/Postmodern philosophy and its critics.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
Michelle Cochrane
PhD (Geography), UC Berkeley, 1997.
Research interests: international health and development, Africa.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
Mona Domosh
PhD (Geography), Clark University, 1985. Professor Geography, Dartmouth College.
Research interests: cultures of commerce, urban historical geography, cultural geography, social theory, feminist theory, postcolonialism.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Johns
Yue Fang
PhD (Oceanography), Texas A&M University, 2005.
Research interests: coupled ocean-atmosphere modeling and air-sea interaction, numerical modeling of ocean circulation, tides and tidal currents. Office: 531 McCone.
Faculty sponsor: John Chiang
James Hobbs
PhD (Conservation Biology), UC Davis, 2004. CalFed Science Program Postdoctoral Scholar.
Research interests: fish ecology, development and implementation of geochemical analysis on the otolith microstructure to determine migratory history and habitat utilization of threatened delta smelt.
Office: 595 McCone.
Faculty sponsor: Lynn Ingram
Gail Hollander
PhD (Geography), University of Iowa, 1999. Associate Professor of International Relations, Florida International University. Ciriacy-Wantrup Fellow at UC Berkeley.
Research interests: world food system theory, geography of Florida and the Caribbean, feminist geography, regional development, agro-environmental conflict.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
Francis Magilligan
PhD (Geography), University of Wisconsin, 1988.
Research interests: flood hydrology, quaternary studies, fluvial processes and environments, human impacts on watersheds, soil erosion, sedimentation, and sediment mobility.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Johns
Frances Malamud-Roam
PhD (Geography), University of California, 2002. Sea Grant Postdoctoral Fellow.
Research Interests: paleo-environmental change, origins of agriculture, San Francisco Bay Estuary. Faculty sponsor: Lynn Ingram.
Olivier Mazéas
PhD (Biogeochemistry), University of Bordeaux, France, 2004.
Research interests: analysis of organic compounds in the environment: halogenated trace gas fluxes; hydrocarbon and pesticide contamination, biotransformation and fate.
Faculty sponsor: Robert Rhew
Thomas Mölg
PhD (Earth & Atmospheric Sciences), University of Innsbruck, 2003. Fulbright Scholar. Research interests: climate change and precipitation variability in the tropics: an assessment for high-altitude regions.
Faculty Sponsor: John Chiang
Maria-Teresa Ramirez-Herrera
PhD (Geomorphology), University of Edinburgh, 1994.
Research interests: geomorphology, coastal and fluvial processes, tectonic geomorphology.
Faculty sponsor: Roger Byrne
Miren Vizcaino
PhD (anticipated 2006), Max Planck Institute for Earth System Modelling, Germany. Research interests: climate modelling, ice sheet-climate interactions during the last Ice Age.
Faculty sponsor: John Chiang
Visiting Student Researchers
Maja Bovcon
PhD Student (Politics), Oxford University.
Research project: contemporary politics of Côte d'Ivoire: Franco-Ivorian relations under the Gbagbo regime. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts
Jung-Ying Chang
PhD Student (Urban Planning), National Taipei University, Taiwan.
Research project: formation and governance of the Mandarin pop music region.
Faculty Sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Anasuya Sengupta
PhD Student (Politics), Oxford University.
Research project: gender and development issues, public health, religious and cultural fundamentalisms.
Faculty Sponsor: Gillian Hart
