Geography Faculty
Joshua Muldavin
on leave spring semester
B.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley. Special interests in China and East Asia, comparative rural development, international development aid policy, agriculture, environment, political economy and social theory, and political ecology. Current research projects analyze globalization and changes in national-level policies, and their environmental and social impacts on localities in China; comparative socialist transition; vulnerability and resource use in the Himalayan Region; resource and development conflicts in Central Asia; and international aid to China since 1978. Twenty-years field research primarily in rural China, but also in Japan, Russia, Hungary, northern Europe, Cuba, and Mexico. Recipient of Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Fulbright, UCLA, and Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation grants. Invited lectures at Oxford, Johns Hopkins, University of Havana, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Finnish parliament, and the Russian parliament. Recent journal publications include “Aiding Regional Instability?: The Paradox of Japanese Development Assistance to China,” “The Paradoxes of Environmental Policy in Reform Era China,” “The Geography of Japanese Development Aid to China, 1978-1998,” “The Limits of Market Triumphalism in Rural China,” “Assessing Environmental Degradation in Contemporary China’s Hybrid Economy: State Policy Reform and Agrarian Dynamics in Heilongjiang Province,” and “The Political Ecology of Agrarian Reform in China: The Case of Heilongjiang Province.” Contributor to Economic Geography, Geopolitics, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. SLC, 2002-
Kathryn Tanner
Courses: Global Geographies: From Colonization to the World Bank, Global Value Chains: The Geographies of Our Daily Needs, Gender and Development: Politics, Violence, and Livelihoods in South Asian and African Societies
B.A., Brown University. M.Phil., Ph.D., University of Cambridge. Special interests in Africa and South Asia, rural livelihoods, value chain analysis, gender, environment, political economy, globalization, and political ecology; current research projects analyze the role of south-south trade in development, the value chain analysis of the seashell trade between Tanzania and India, female cooperatives, and environmental law and policy initiatives; recipient of grants from Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust, Fulbright, Royal Geographical Society, University of Cambridge, and Darwin College. Invited lectures at the Institute of Geography at the University of Copenhagen, London Museum of Natural History, Royal Geographical Society in London, and Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association’s Bi-Annual Symposium. Recent journal publications include “Community-Based Governance of Coastal Zone and Marine Resources in Madagascar,” “Governance and Access: A Value Chain Analysis of the Seashell Trade between Tanzania and India,” “Marine Resources and Local Governance: Lessons from Anakao, Madagascar,” and “Tourism: Paradise or Paradox?” Contributor to Contour journal, WIOMSA journal, InterCoast, and Res Communes. SLC, 2006-