Visiting Scholars and Post Doctoral Fellows
Charles Allen PhD (Geography), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001. Research interests: arctic-alpine environments, environmental change, geomorphology, soils, and weathering studies.
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.
Kate Davis PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Research interests: Pacific Rim, race, gender, labor, fisheries, fish processing, aquaculture, ecological and environmental history, biogeography. Kate is interested in the fish processing industry around the Pacific Rim, primarily the South Pacific, the West Coast of North America, Peru, and Chile. She is particularly interested in how intersections of ecology, gender, race, and labor are mutually constitutive of this industry wherever it operates and that it functions in similar ways in very disparate locales. Kate is a Kevin Starr Fellow in California Studies at the U.C. Humanities Research Institute. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Johns
Bernard Hourcade, Director of Research at CNRS; Professor at the Université de Paris III. Research interests: geography of Iran, urban society and greater Teheran. Arrival date: TBA
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
Jon (Jake) Kosek PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Research interests: the intersection of culture, politics and nature; current research project explores the dark green attachments between the nature of purity within the Eugenics movement in late 19th century and early 20th century United States and the ways they continue to reside in contemporary ideas of wilderness preservation in the Southwestern United States. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Watts
Yochanan Kushnir, Senior Scientist, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University. Research interests: climate variability, climate diagnostics, atmosphere-ocean interaction, climate impacts. Faculty sponsor: John Chiang
Elisabeth Lamoureux PhD (Geography), University of California, 2002. Research Interests: The marginalization of women within the South Korean labor movement. Faculty Sponsor: Richard Walker
Frances Malamud-Roam PhD (Geography), University of California, 2002. Research Interests: Origins of agriculture; China (Yangtze River Delta and Huang River Delta); climate change. Faculty Sponsor: Lynn Ingram
Sandra Nichols PhD (Geography), University of California, Berkeley, 2002. Research interests: Mexico-US transnational migrant networks, transformation of cultural landscapes linked to migration, transfer and diffusion of agricultural innovations via migration networks; sustainable agriculture in semi-arid, small farm settings. Faculty Sponsor: Michael Johns
Jessica Teisch PhD (Geography) UC Berkeley, 2001. 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. Currently, she is a Kevin Starr Fellow in California Studies at the U.C. Humanities Research Institute and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Geography. Her work has appeared in Environmental History, Pacific Historical Review, and The Human Tradition in California.
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
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