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Jessica Lage Seth Lunine Jason Moore
Rebecca Lave Greta Marchesi Dayna Muñiz
Miri Lavi-Neeman Nathan McClintock Diana Negrin
Xiaohui Lin Laura-Anne Minkoff Christopher W. Niedt
John Lindenbaum

Jessica Lage

 Personal Interests:
E-mail: jlage@berkeley.edu
BA 1996 (American Studies) UC Berkeley
MA 2005 (Geography) University of Colorado, Boulder
Research Interests: Political ecology and land use conversion/landscape change in the American West and Europe, particularly in Spain.
Regional Focus: American West and Europe

Rebecca Lave

 Personal Interests:
New student - Photo pending
E-mail: rlave@alum.mit.edu
BA 1993 (Art History and Political Philosophy) Reed College
MA 1997 (Urban Planning) MIT
Research Interests: Social/cultural geography; particularly how the interactions among community members, scientists, and local and state elites play out in environmental decision making.
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Miri Lavi-Neeman

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Xiaohui Lin

 Personal Interests:
E-mail: beeplin@gmail.com
BS 2002 (Electronic Engineering) Tsinghua University, Beijing
MS 2006 (Microelectronics) Tsinghua University, Beijing
Research interests: Mechanism of global transition from the industrial age to the information age and the social processes of information technologies, especially the issues of digital divide in underdeveloped countries like China.
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John Lindenbaum

 Personal Interests:
I sing, play guitar and write songs for the rock bands The Lonelyhearts www.thelonelyhearts.net
&
Rust Belt Music www.rustbeltmusic.com

I also enjoy ultimate frisbee, soccer, and basketball.
E-mail: lindenba@berkeley.edu
AB 1999 (Public Policy and International Affairs)
Princeton University
Research Interests: The critical human geography of U.S. popular music, contemporary christian music, and social change.
Regional Focus: California and the United States

Seth Lunine

 Personal Interests:
E-mail: slunine@berkeley.edu
BA 1996 (Geography) UC Berkeley
MA 2004 (Geography) California State Northridge
Research Interests: He's interested in the evolution of the modern city and recent transformations in the San Francisco Bay Area; and in comparing the policies, practices and effects of formal redevelopment efforts in Emeryville and Richmond, California.
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Greta Marchesi

 Personal Interests: Arts-based social activism, community education, public schooling, the relationship between rural and urban poverty and political interests, food security, acequias, vermiculture, the bicycle revolution, goat cheeses, the Soho Crime series, book arts, Fluxus International, etching, mail art, and good, cheap food.
E-mail: gretam@berkeley.edu
BA 1997 (History/Literature) Reed College
MA 2006 (American Studies) University of New Mexico
Research Interests: I'm interested in the colonizing function of agricultural development in the twentieth century, both domestically in Native American communities and internationally as an extension of U.S. foreign policy. I'm also curious about the ways that colonizing strategies employed against Native tribes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries shaped programs of American empire abroad. My previous research has focused on the World War II-era Navajo De-Stocking Program, in particular the economic and cultural impacts of state-imposed changes in range management. My doctoral work looks more closely at the pedagogical apparatus of agricultural education in international contexts, considering the local implications of agricultural scientists' global assumptions about productivity, gender, and the natural world.
Regional Focus:American Indian tribal lands, the American West, Africa, the Caribbean

Nathan McClintock

 Personal Interests:

Mulching & composting, okra & collards, milking goats, West African rumba orchestras of the 1960s, old-time guitar-picking & crooning, movin' it to mbalax, Afro-Beat, salsa, & cumbia, sawing & hammering & nailing things together, bike riding, sea kayaking, sailing, climbing, hiking & camping, diners & taquerias, stinky cheese & cheap red wine.

Agro-revolutionary websites of interest:

www.foodfirst.org
(Oakland food sovereignty advocates) www.newfarm.org
(The Rodale Institute, organic pioneers)
www.leisa.info
(sustainable farming info in 5 languages)
www.attra.org
(everything you need to know about sustainable farming)
www.ces.ncsu.edu/chatham/ag/SustAg/ (best extension site in the world)
www.cityfarmer.org
(urban agriculture clearinghouse)

And for your listening pleasure:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/SM ("Secret Museum of the Air", amazing
pre-'50s world music)
www.wxyc.org
(auditory diversity from greatest radio station in the US of A)
www.mattgy.net/music/
("Benn loxo du taccu"–classic African tunes)
E-mail: mcclintock@berkeley.edu
BA 1996 (French) University of North Carolina
MS 2004 (Sustainable Agriculture) North Carolina State University

Research Interests: Call me a 'tweener, one of those folks straddling the biological and social sciences, as much an agro-ecologist as a human geographer, intent on serving as a translator between the two worlds while doing applied research that can be used to improve ag extension/education strategies and help develop sustainable local food systems. My research revolves around urban/peri-urban agroecosystems (soil fertility management, in particular), peri-urban agricultural land-use change, and the enhancement of rural-urban linkages within the broader context of feeding cities and overcoming the “metabolic rift” between urban areas and their outskirts. To stay grounded (no pun intended) and keep my hands dirty, I also teach in the UCB Student Garden (at the corner of Virginia and Walnut) and am involved with sustainable ag projects in Mexico, Brazil, Bangladesh, Nepal, Senegal, Mali and Haiti.
Regional Focus: Bamako (Mali), Bay Area, US organic agriculture
Selected Publications:
“Sustainable Agriculture” & “Biotechnology.” In R.M. Juang & N. Morrissette (eds). Africa and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, (in press).

“Senegalese Cooperatives.” In R. van Weenhuizen (ed.) Cities Farming for the Future: Urban Agriculture for Green and Productive Cities. Ottawa/Leusden: IDRC/RUAF, pp. 141-143 (2006, http://www.ruaf.org/node/961)

“Soil fertility management and compost use in Senegal’s Peanut Basin.” International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 3(2):79-91. (2005, with Amadou Makhtar Diop)

Compost Production and Use in Sustainable Farming Systems. CEFS Field Notes for Farmers No.1, NC Cooperative Extension Publication, Raleigh, NC (2005)

Hibiscus sabdariffa (L.). In G.J.H. Gruebben & L.O. Denton (eds.) Plant Resources of Tropical Africa 2: Vegetables. Waginengen, The Netherlands: PROTA Foundation, pp. 321-326 (2004, with E.M. El-Tahir)

“Sustainable in Senegal”, The New Farm (13-story feature, June 2005 – July 2006, http://newfarm.org/international/index.shtml)

“Roselle in Senegal and Mali”, LEISA Magazine for Low External Input and Sustainable Agriculture, 2004, Vol. 20, No. 1. (http://www.ileia.org/2/20-1/08_10.pdf)

Laura-Anne Minkoff

 Personal Interests:
Biking, running and swimming, (mini-triathlon training) playing music with my band The Porchsteps, growing, cooking and eating good food, and getting away to camp, hike and lay in the sun.
E-mail: laminkoff@berkeley.edu
BA 2004 (Sustainable Agriculture and Development with Concentration in Latin American Studies) Cornell University
Research Interests: The political ecology of international agricultural development, food sovereignty and agricultural biodiversity.
Regional Focus: The Americas

Jason Moore

 Personal Interests:
New student - Photo pending
E-mail: jasonwmoore@earthlink.net
BA 1994 (Sociology and Political Science) University of Oregon
MA 1997 (World History) UC Santa Cruz
Research Interests: Environmental geography, world-historical geography, modern world environmental history as a multiscalar phenomenon.
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Dayna Muñiz

 Personal Interests: In my free time I enjoy reading, spending time with my friends and visiting my family in Texas as much as possible.
E-mail: dbmuniz@gmail.com
BA 2005 (Chicano Studies major, Cultural and Social Anthropology minor) Stanford
Research Interests: I was born and raised in the El Paso/Juarez border area and miss the desert. My interests center around migration and borders, specifically U.S.-Mexico borders; the use of geography in creating social hierarchies; political economy and immigration; enculturation of emotional responses in relation to geographic location, especially fear; borders as symbolic monuments of state power; post-socialist European borders.
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Diana Negrin

 Personal Interests: creative writing, dance and education
E-mail: diananegrin@yahoo.com.mx
BA 2004 (Latin American Studies and Spanish) UC Berkeley
Research Interests: Sustainable use of land and resources in Latin America; self-sufficient communities; and the intersections between local culture, political economy and ecology. Since September of 2004, she has resided in Los Angeles, working for a youth mentorship agency. This experience deepened her interest in the topics of space and place, cultural diasporas, and local and global problems of political economy.
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Christopher W. Niedt

 Personal Interests: In my spare time, I enjoy visiting the Berkeley Open Studios, watching old/foreign/indie flicks at the PFA/Albany, chewing the fat at Anna's, listening to poetry and music at La Pen~a, and trying to re-write my roommate's screenplays.

Web sites of Interest:

Rough and Tumble: A great website for recent California
politics

Unicon: The best place to find monthly Census data, with a free online service for small datasets. The full package costs money, but will save your sanity.

Berkeley's Center for Popular Education and Participatory Research

The Bay Area Progressive Directory

And some fun sites:

Adbusters

Ted Rall

Tom the Dancing Bug
E-mail: niedt@uclink4.berkeley.edu
BA 1999 (Geography and Economics) Johns Hopkins University
MA 2002 (Geography) UC Berkeley
Research Interests: Like many geographers, I lean on the side of everything-ism rather than over-specialization. Most broadly, I am concerned with how people make sense of their spatial and social position within the structures of capital, state, and civil society; how free they are -- individually and collectively -- to change those positions; and whether/which material and discursive practices can re-configure the structures themselves. These interests have led me to focus on the strategies, potentials, and limitations of American faith-based community organizations and workers' movements, with particular attention to their articulations of race and class. I have also done some politically-oriented research with a local non-profit, although bridging theory and policy work is, I've found, a project in its own right.
Regional Focus: Urban North America

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