| 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 Researcher |
| 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 |
