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
