Visiting Scholars 2012-2013

Hannah Appel

hannah.chadeayne@gmail.com
PhD (Anthropology), Stanford University, 2011. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow.
Research interests: the anthropology of capitalism; U.S. oil and gas firms in Africa; the economic imagination.
Dates: 9/1/12-3/31/13
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts

Melanie Armstrong

melarmstrong@berkeley.edu
PhD (American Studies), University of New Mexico, 2011.
Research interests: national bioterrorism preparedness, political ecology, gender and media, space, place and identity.
Dates: 1/6/12-1/15/13
Faculty sponsor: Jake Kosek

Forood Azari Dehkordi

foroodazd@gmail.com
PhD (Environmental Planning), Hiroshima University, 2005.
Research interests: landscape ecology, land use planning, environmental sciences.
Dates: 10/4/10-10/3/12
Faculty sponsor: Roger Byrne

Rachel Brahinsky

rbrahinsky@gmail.com
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2012. 2012-13 Postdoctoral Fellow for the Living New Deal Project.
Research interests: urban development, racial formation, political economy, California Studies.
Dates: 9/1/12-8/31/13
Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker

Gray Brechin

gbrechin@berkeley.edu
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.
Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker

Niels Fold

nf@geo.ku.dk
PhD (Economic Geography), University of Copenhagen, 1993. Professor, Geography, University of Copenhagen.
Research interests: global agro-industrial value chains, small-scale mining in Africa, geopolitics of rare earth minerals.
Dates: 8/1/12-12/31/12
Faculty sponsors: Michael Watts & Richard Walker

Kang Won Lee

haekong@jbnu.ac.kr
PhD (Geography), Seoul National University, 2000. Associate Professor of Geography, Chonbuk National University, Korea.
Research interests: cultural and environmental politics in Northwestern China and a review of American geographers’ China studies.
Dates: 8/1/11-1/31/13
Faculty sponsor: You-tien Hsing

Robert Leighninger

robert.leighninger@asu.edu
PhD (Social Science), Syracuse University, 1971. Faculty Associate, Arizona State University.
Research interests: New Deal public works.
Dates: 9/1/12-8/31/13
Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker

Wayne Linklater

wayne.linklater@vuw.ac.nz
PhD (Ecology), Massey University, 1999. Director, Centre for Biodiversity and Restoration Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Research interests: human dimensions of ecology in urban landscapes.
Dates: 4/21/13-1/19/14
Faculty sponsor: Nathan Sayre

Louisa Lombard

llombard@berkeley.edu
PhD (Cultural Anthropology), Duke University, 2012. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow.
Research interests: Central African borderlands: the politics of “stateless” spaces, militarized conservation, rebellion and humanitarianism.
Dates: 9/1/12-8/31/13
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts

Cal Winslow

cwinslow@mcn.org
PhD, University of Washington, 1973.
Research interests: redwood forest and its communities.
Dates: 3/26/12-3/25/14
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts

Renbin Zhu

zhurb@ustc.edu.cn
PhD (Environmental Science), University of Science and Technology of China, 2002. Professor, School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China.
Research interests: carbon and nitrogen exchange between ecosystem and atmosphere, environmental ecology in Antarctica and the Arctic, soil biochemistry and soil microbiology.
Dates: 5/10/12-5/9/13
Faculty sponsor: Robert Rhew

Visiting Student Researchers

Linda Boukhris

lindaboukhris@voila.fr
PhD Student (Geography), University Paris I La Sorbonne.
Research project: tourism imaginaries and national identity in Costa Rica.
Dates: 9/1/12-7/1/13
Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts

Han Huang

huanghanyaolong@126.com
PhD Student (Political Science), Peking University.
Research project: a case study in Southwest China on agricultural water conservancy construction and rural governance.
Dates: 9/1/12-8/31/13
Faculty Sponsor: You-tien Hsing

Mark Kear


PhD Student (Geography), Simon Fraser University.
Research project: research on the changing role of consumer financial products in lives of low-income households in the Bay Area.
Dates: 1/3/12-1/2/13
Faculty Sponsor: Jake Kosek

Rodrigo Sierra Corona

lomogrande@hotmail.com
PhD Student (Biological Sciences), Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
Research project: history of the Mexican agrarian movement and its impact through Mexican ecosystem's health
Dates: 8/15/12-2/15/13
Faculty Sponsor: Nathan Sayre

Past Visiting Scholars