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| Jessica Taal | Sapna Thottathil | Johntell Washington |
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Jessica Taal |
Personal Interests: Growing stuff, dogs, running, veggie cooking, documentary films, drawing, hiking and camping, biking around the East Bay. Websites of interest: San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center Indybay.org Cars-R-Coffins carsrcoffins.com Impress Jodie impressjodie.com Community Alliance with Family Farmers caff.org Prison University Project prisionuniversityproject.org East Bay Bicycle Coalition ebbc.org |
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BA 2004 (Anthropology) UC Berkeley Currently I am interested in non-native species eradication programs on public lands in the United States. I am looking at the ways in which concepts in environmental management, such as "biodiversity" and "native ecosystems", are linked to ideas about nation, race, and immigration, among other things. |
Alexander Tarr |
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BA 2004 (Cinema Television Production) University of Southern California Research Interests: The cultural geography and political economy of local organic food production and consumption in urban areas. |
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BA 2004 (Environmental Studies) University of Chicago BA 2004 (International Studies) University of Chicago MS 2006 (Environmental Change and Management) University of Oxford Research Interests: American consumption and its negative impact on both local and international geographies; America's consumer footprint in the developing world, and how American consumption affects the values, policies, and environment in a country such as India; political ecology, commodity analysis, contraction and convergence. |
Shawn VanAusdal |
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Johntell Washington |
Personal Interests: Grad school’s greedily eaten up the time and energy that I once had for interesting hobbies and cool life stuff, so these days I just try to fit the fun in where I can. When my head isn’t buried in a book, you can probably find me catching a ball game on the tube (sports fanatic that I am), listening to music, or relaxing with friends at a local lounge. Websites of Interest: http://www.ucomics.com/boondocks/ The Boondocks Huey for President! http://www.fabookclub.com/ FABC Looking for an excuse to hang out more often, in early 2004 a few of us local heads started our own little jawn, a music appreciation group—play a couple of your favorite tunes, and parlay with familiar faces and new acquaintances from around the Bay Area. Well since then, the invite list has gotten longer, the gatherings larger, and the network stronger. We’ve even expanded to Boston! Chapter coming to your town soon. www.greenlining.org The Greenlining Institute ‘Sophisticated activism’ – progressives doing excellent work on behalf of California’s low-income and minority communities. http://www.allmusic.com All Music Guide It’s the Encyclopedia Britannica of music. Every genre, artist, album, and track in the known universe, catalogued here for your perusal. Solid critics’ reviews, informative genre histories, and audio samples of practically every song. A music lover’s dream. |
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I am fascinated by the problem of uneven development, and the marginal zones of the capitalist world either abandoned or willfully ignored in the system's triumph through space and place. This ranges across scales, of course, from the perpetually impoverished 'inner cities' dotting the American landscape, to the nation's deindustrialized regions, and on to the so-called LDCs of the world. For me, the key theoretical problem is thus understanding the obstacles to development, and elucidating the primary economic, political, and social ingredients that must be present if sustained growth is to take hold. No such inquiry is possible without a grounded study, of course, and in my dissertation research, I focus on the rise of the tobacco towns of Durham and Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the post-Civil War “New South” era. By illustrating the elements involved in these towns' improbable, self-directed growth from anonymous hamlets to regional urban-industrial giants--and within a territory mired in decades-long stagnation, no less--I hope to add to the conversation on the process of growth under adverse circumstances. Areas of concentration: -Economy Geography -Political Economy of Development -American Urban Geography |
Mary Whelan |
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| E-mail: mary.whelan@gmail.com BA 2004 (Chemistry and Political Science) New College of Florida Research Interests: Rgional Focus: Biogeochemistry, specifically terrestrial-atmospheric gas exchanges that are related to ozone depletion and the greenhouse effect; how different ecological communities will exchange a variety of compounds with different ratios. |
