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Geography
Agriculture & Rural Development
Rural Environmental Issues
My
regional interests include China,
East Asia, and the US. I have lived and worked
in China and Korea for approximately 4.5 years beginning with
a first visit of six months to Taiwan in 1985. Projects in China
and Korea, as well as the US, typically focus on rural or agricultural
adaptations—at the farm level to economic
change at regional, national, or global scales. Always related
to these issues are a number of important environmental
concerns that are part and parcel of this type
of research. I look forward to working with any students sharing
similar interests in these topics or regions at both the graduate
and undergraduate level.
I teach five classes at WMU including: World
Ecological Problems; Economic Geography; Undergraduate Research
Methods; China, Japan, and Korea; and, Graduate Research Methods.
I will be delighted to answer any questions about these courses,
thesis development, or about possible directed study options or
undergraduate honor’s theses direction.
My research has been funded by the Ford
Foundation, the National Academy of Science, the American Philosophical
Society, World Wildlife Fund, National Geographic, the Lucia Harrison
Fund, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Rural Development
Institute) and the Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad Program.
I have been awarded a number of fellowships including, most recently,
a Sasakawa Fellowship
for the study of Japan in 2003.
Articles based on this research have been published
in the Annals of the Association
of American Geographers, Eurasian Geography and Economics, Economic
Geography, Geographical Review, World Development, Asia-Pacific
Viewpoint, Focus (American Geographical Society), Chinese Environment
and Development, and Comptons Encyclopedia.
With respect to my service to the discipline,
I previously served on the editorial board of the Annals
of the Association of American Geographers, and I am currently
on the editorial board of Eurasian
Geography and Economics. I was a member of the
AAG Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Committee (1996-1999),
Chair or co-chair of the China Specialty Group of the AAG from
1992-1995, and am currently the Chair of the Geography section
of the Michigan Academy of Science,
Arts, and Letters. I served on the Dissertation
Enhancement Grant Committee for NSF from 1998-2000. I have completed
pre-publication reviews of articles and manuscripts for over thirty
journals and book publishers.
Currently, I am particularly interested in conducting
research related to how WTO regulations
and the concurrent increase in global trade has
impacted rural environments and small farmers in East Asia and
the United States.
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