Visiting Scholars 2009-2010
Lysanna Anderson
lysannaa@stanford.edu
PhD (Geology), University of Colorado, Boulder.
Research interests: development of methodologies and data sets for use in paleoclimate reconstructions.
Faculty sponsor: Roger Byrne
Christopher Bacon
christophermbacon@gmail.com
PhD (Environmental Studies), UC Santa Cruz, 2005. Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoc at UC Berkeley.
Research interests: political economy; international trade in food, energy and materials and its effects on sustainable community development; agroecology; Nicaragua, Latin American, U.S.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
Yan Bao
ybao@berkeley.edu
PhD (Atmospheric Physics & Atmospheric Environment), Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2006.
Research interests: regional climate studies and modeling.
Faculty sponsor: Norman Miller
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.
Ching-Yee Chang
chingyee.chang@berkeley.edu
PhD (Chemical Physics), University of Maryland, 2008.
Research interests: interhemispheric pattern of global climate change over the 20th century and examine the consequences of this pattern to tropical climate.
Faculty sponsor: John Chiang
Eduardo Contreras
eacontreras@berkeley.edu
PhD (History), University of Chicago, 2008. Assistant Professor, University of Houston. UCB Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow
Research interests: comparative Latino histories, race and racism in the U.S., comparative migrations in U.S. history, community organizing.
Faculty sponsor: Richard Walker
Oronto N. Douglas
orontolaw@yahoo.com
MA (Geography), Demontford University, Leicester, 1997; Senior Special Assistant for Research to the Vice President of Nigeria.
Research interests: impact of oil in the Niger Delta
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
Md. Anwar H. Khan
anwar.khan@berkeley.edu
PhD (Chemistry), University of Bristol, 2008; Associate Professor of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh; Visiting Associate Researcher.
Research interests: trace gas biogeochemistry with primary focus on the effect of climate in the terrestial sulfur cycle
Faculty sponsor: Robert Rhew
Shih-Yu Lee
shihyu@atmos.berkeley.edu
PhD (Oceanography), University of Michigan, 2008.
Research interests: tropical climate dynamics during the Pleistocene.
Faculty sponsor: John Chiang
Sonia Lehman-Frisch
sonia.frisch@berkeley.edu
PhD (Geography), University of Paris X-Nanterre, 2002; Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France.
Research interests: comparative study of children in gentrified neighborhoods in Paris and San Francisco.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Johns
Wei Li
PhD (Geography), University of Southern California, 1997. Associate Professor of Asian Pacific American Studies and School of Geographical Science, Arizona State University.
Research interests: immigration and integration, geography of race/ethnicity, comparative urban ethnicity, Asian American community development, ethnic finance, and GIS applications in Geography and Ethnic Studies.
Faculty sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Rod Neumann
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 1992.
Research interests: linkages between rural development, resource conservation, and land degradation in the Third World
Faculty sponsor: Kurt Cuffey
Sandra Nichols
snichols08@gmail.com
PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2002.
Research interests: Mexican migration and sustainable development, indigenous farmworkers in California agriculture.
Faculty sponsor: Paul Groth
Miren Vizcaino Trueba
mirenvt@atmos.berkeley.edu
PhD (Earth Sciences), Max Planck Institute for Earth System Modelling, Germany, 2006. Research interests: climate modelling, ice sheet-climate interactions during the last Ice Age.
Faculty sponsors: John Chiang and Kurt Cuffey
Cal Winslow
cwinslow@mcn.org
PhD, University of Washington, 1973.
Research interests: redwood forest and its communities.
Faculty sponsor: Michael Watts
Wenheng Wu
wuwh04@lzu.cn
PhD (Geography), Lanzhou University, 2007.
Research interests: regional sustainable development, population and resource-environment, urban and regional planning.
Faculty sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Xiaohong Yu
yuxh@berkeley.edu
PhD (Economics), Jilin University, 2001.
Research interests: industry, international and environmental economics.
Faculty sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Visiting Student Researchers
Chengwei Fu
chengwei_fu@yahoo.com.cn
PhD Student (Geographic Sciences), Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Research project: regional development and urbanization in China.
Faculty Sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Jan-Philipp Kramer
kramer@wigeo.uni-hannover.de
PhD Student (Economic and Cultural Geography), Leibniz University Hanover, Germany.
Research project: multinational enterprises and innovation.
Faculty Sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Yanyan Liu
liuyyan@mail2.sysu.edu.cn
PhD Student (Geography and Planning), Sun Yat-sen University, China.
Research project: industrial land-use expansion in Guangzhou.
Faculty Sponsor: You-tien Hsing
Nomkhosi Xulu
nomkhosixulu@gmail.com
PhD Student (Geography), University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Research project: focus on how rural-urban linkages are changing in the post-apartheid era.
Faculty Sponsor: Gillian Hart