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Garth Andrew Myers Curriculum Vitae – August 2018

Present Position: Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies

Director of the Urban Studies Program

Trinity College, 300 Summit Street, Hartford, CT 06106

garth.myers@trincoll.edu, 860.297.4273

Education

• Ph.D. in Geography - University of California, Los Angeles - 1993 Dissertation: Reconstructing Ng'ambo: Town Planning and Development on the Other Side of Zanzibar. Advisor:

Gerry Hale. Committee: Judith Carney, Michael Curry, Edward Soja, and Edward Alpers.

• MA in African Area Studies - University of California, Los Angeles - 1986 Thesis: Pastoralism and Capitalism in Kenya: a Spatial Perspective on the Articulation of Modes of Production.

Advisor: Gerry Hale. Committee: Edward Soja and Edward Alpers.

• BA with Honors in History - Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine - 1984 Thesis: Evaluating Shared Assumptions: an Analysis of the Works of Elspeth Huxley and Doris Lessing on White

Africa. Advisor: Randolph Stakeman. Reader: Sarah McMahon.

Professional Experience

• Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, 2011-,

Trinity College

Director, Urban Studies Program, 2013-. Member, International Studies Program. Core Faculty for the Cities

Program, Center for Urban and Global Studies. Courses Taught: Introduction to Urban Studies, The City in African

Studies, Political Geography, Development in Africa, Global Cities, Sustainable Urban Development, KiSwahili,

Urban Research Practicum, and The American City. Advisory Board, Environmental Science Program and Public

Policy & Law Program.

• Director, Kansas African Studies Center (2006-11), Professor (2008-11), Associate

Professor (2001-08), and Assistant Professor (1995-2001), University of Kansas Member, Departments of Geography and African & African-American Studies. Title VI National Resource Center,

Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowship Center, US Department of Education, 2006-2010 and 2010-14.

Courses Taught: Cities and Development, Africa’s Human Geographies, Principles of Human Geography,

Geography of African Development, Cultural Geography Graduate Seminar, Environmental Issues in Africa,

Physical Geography of Africa, Southern Africa, KiSwahili, Introduction to Modern Africa Graduate Seminar.

Courtesy Faculty: Environmental Studies Program, American Studies Program

• Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Omaha, 1994-5

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Miami University, 1993-4

• Lecturer, California State University at Dominguez Hills, 1990 and 1992

• Teaching Fellow, UCLA Department of Geography, 1988-91 and 1993

• Middle School Social Studies Teacher, Rumson, New Jersey, 1986-8

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Publications: Books and Edited Books (6)

Myers, G. (2016) Urban Environments in Africa: a Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics

(Bristol, UK: Policy Press, University of Bristol).

Myers, G. (2011) African Cities: Alternative Visions of Urban Theory and Practice (London:

Zed Books).

Caminero-Santangelo, B., and G. Myers, eds. (2011) Environment at the Margins: Literary and

Environmental Studies in Africa (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press).

Murray, M. and G. Myers, eds. (2006) Cities in Contemporary Africa (New York: Palgrave

Macmillan Press). (Paperback edition, 2011)

Myers, G. (2005) Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance, and Sustainable Development in

Urban Africa (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Press, Rematerializing Cultural Geography series).

Myers, G. (2003) Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Syracuse, NY:

Syracuse University Press, Space, Place and Society series).

Publications: Peer-Reviewed Articles (38)

Hanlon, T., Richmond, A. K., Shelzi, J., and G. Myers (2018) “Cultural Identity in the Peri-

Urban African Landscape: A Case Study from Pikine, Senegal,” African Geographical Review,

http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2017.1403333.

Myers, G. (2015) “A World-Class City Region? Envisioning the Nairobi of 2030,” American

Behavioral Scientist 59(3): 328-346.

Myers, G. (2014) “From Expected to Unexpected Comparison: Changing the Flows of Ideas

about Cities in a Post-Colonial Urban World,” Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography

35(1):104-118.

Myers, G. (2014) “Toward Expanding Links between Political Geography and African Studies,”

Geography Compass 8(2): 125-136.

Chen, X. and G. Myers. (2013) “China and Africa: The Crucial Urban Connection.” The

European Financial Review (December-January): 89-93.

Myers, G. and M. A. Muhajir. (2013) “‘Wiped from the Map of the World’? Zanzibar, Critical

Geopolitics and Language,” Geopolitics 18(3): 663-681.

Myers, G. (2011) “Why Africa’s Cities Matter,” African Geographical Review 30(1): 101-106.

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Myers, G. (2010) “Seven Themes of African Urban Dynamics,” Nordic Africa Institute,

Discussion Paper 51 (Uppsala, Sweden: Nordic Africa Institute).

Myers, G. (2010) “Social Construction of Peri-Urban Places and Alternative Planning in

Zanzibar,” African Affairs 109(437): 575-595.

Myers, G. (2008) “Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice in African Cities,”

Geography Compass 2(3): 695-708.

Myers, G. (2008) “Peri-Urban Land Reform, Political-Economic Reform, and Urban Political

Ecology in Zanzibar,” Urban Geography 29(3): 264-288.

Dosi, M., Rushubirwa, L., and G. Myers. (2007) “Tanzanians in the Land of Oz: Diaspora and

Transnationality in Wichita, Kansas,” Social and Cultural Geography 8(5): 657-671.

Harris, R. and G. Myers. (2007) “Hybrid Housing: Improvement and Control in Late Colonial

Zanzibar,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 66(4) 476-493.

Myers, G. (2006) “The Unauthorized City: Late Colonial Lusaka and Post-Colonial Geography,”

Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 27(3): 289-308.

Myers, G. (2005) “Place and Humanistic African Cultural Geography: A Tanzanian Case,”

Journal of Cultural Geography 22(2): 1-26.

Nchito, W., and G. Myers. (2004) “Four Caveats for Participatory Solid Waste Management in

Lusaka, Zambia,” Urban Forum 15(2): 109-133.

Myers, G. (2003) “Colonial and Postcolonial Modernities in Two African Cities,” Canadian

Journal of African Studies 37(2/3): 328-357.

Myers, G. (2003) “Designing Power: Forms and Purposes of Colonial Model Neighborhoods in

British Africa,” Habitat International 27(2): 193-204.

Myers, G. (2002) “Local Communities and the New Environmental Planning: A Case Study

from Zanzibar,” Area 34(2): 149-159.

Myers, G. (2002) “Colonial Geography and Masculinity in Eric Dutton's Kenya Mountain,”

Gender, Place and Culture 9(1): 23-38.

Myers, G. (2001) “Protecting Privacy in Foreign Fields,” Geographical Review 91(1/2): 192-

200.

Myers, G. (2001) “Introductory Human Geography Textbook Representations of Africa,” The

Professional Geographer 53(4): 522-32.

Myers, G. (2000) “Tanzania's New Political Regionalism and Introductory Geography's

Portrayal of Southern Africa,” South African Geographical Journal 82(1): 64-74.

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Myers, G. (2000) “Narrative Representations of Revolutionary Zanzibar,” Journal of Historical

Geography 26(3): 429-448.

Myers, G. (1999) “Political Ecology and Urbanization: Zanzibar's Construction Materials

Industry,” Journal of Modern African Studies 37(1): 83-108.

Myers, G. (1999) “Colonial Discourse and Africa's Colonized Middle: Ajit Singh's

Architecture,” Historical Geography 27: 27-55.

Myers, G. (1998) “Intellectual of Empire: Eric Dutton and Hegemony in British Africa,” Annals

of the Association of American Geographers 88(1): 1-27.

Myers, G. (1998) “Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into African Urban Planning: a Case

Study with Chinese Connections,” Hong Kong Papers in Design and Development 1(1): 47-55.

Myers, G. and M. Muhajir. (1997) “Localizing Agenda 21: Environmental Sustainability and

Zanzibari Urbanization,” Third World Planning Review 19(3): 367-384.

Myers, G. (1997) “Sticks and Stones: Colonialism and Zanzibari Housing,” Africa 67(2): 252-

272.

Klak, T. and G. Myers. (1997) “The Discursive Tactics of Neoliberal Development in Small

Third World Countries,” Geoforum 28(2): 133-149.

Myers, G. (1996) “Democracy and Development in Zanzibar? Contradictions in Land and

Environment Planning,” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 14(2): 221-245.

Myers, G. (1996) “Isle of Cloves, Sea of Discourses: Writing about Zanzibar,” Ecumene 3(4):

408-426.

Myers, G. (1996) “Naming and Placing the Other: Power and the Urban Landscape in Zanzibar,”

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geographie 87(3): 237-246.

Myers, G., T. Klak, and T. Koehl. (1996) “The Inscription of Difference: News Coverage of the

Conflicts in Rwanda and Bosnia,” Political Geography 15(1): 21-46.

Myers, G. (1995) “A Stupendous Hammer: Colonial and Post-Colonial Reconstructions of

Zanzibar's Other Side,” Urban Studies 32(8): 1436-1449.

Myers, G. (1994) “Making the Socialist City of Zanzibar,” Geographical Review 84(4): 451-464.

Myers, G. (1994) “Eurocentrism and African Urbanization: the Case of Zanzibar's Other Side,”

Antipode 26(3): 195-215.

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Book Chapters (30)

Muhajir, M. and G. Myers. (2018) “Uncommon Misery, Relegated to the Margins: Tumbatu and

50 Years of the Zanzibar Revolution,” in Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political

Struggle: Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar, edited by William Cunningham Bissell and

Marie-Aude Fouéré, Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 191-222.

Myers, G. (2018) “Africa’s Urban Futures,” in The Routledge Africa Development Handbook,

edited by Tony Binns, Etienne Nel, and Kenny Lynch, London: Routledge, pp. 465-473.

Myers, G. (2017) “Cities and Development,” in Wiley-AAG International Encyclopedia of

Geography. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.

Myers, G. (2017) “African Ideas of the Urban,” in The Handbook of New Urban Studies. John

Hannigan and Greg Richards (eds.), London: SAGE Publications, pp. 449-461.

Myers, G. (2016) “‘The Trees are Yours’: Nature, Toponymy and Politics in the Interpretation of

the Cultural Landscapes of Lusaka and Zanzibar,” invited chapter in: Liora Bigon and Yossi

Katz (eds.) Place Names in Africa: Colonial Urban Legacies, Entangled Histories. Zurich:

Springer, pp. 45-57.

Myers, G. (2016) “Representing Zanzibar in Contested Literary, Cultural and Political

Geographies,” in The Postcolonial World, edited by Jyotsna Singh and David Kim. London:

Routledge, pp. 227-242.

Myers, G., Owusu, F., and A. Gray Subulwa. (2016) “Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in 6th

edition, Cities of the World, edited by S. Brunn, M. Hays-Mitchell, and D. Zeigler (Lanham,

MD: Rowman and Littlefield).

Myers, G. (2015) “Remaking the Edges: Surveillance and Flows in Sub-Saharan Africa’s New

Suburbs,” in: The Design of Frontier Spaces: Control and Ambiguity, edited by Andreas

Luescher and Carolyn Loeb. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 45-63.

Myers, G., and M. A. Muhajir. (2014) “The Afterlife of the Lanchester Plan: Zanzibar as the

Garden City of Tomorrow,” in: Garden Cities and Colonial Planning: Transnationality of Urban

Ideas in Africa and Palestine, edited by Liora Bigon and Yossi Katz (Manchester: Manchester

University Press), pp. 98-119.

Myers, G. (2014) “Moving Beyond Colonialism: Town Halls and Sub-Saharan Africa’s

Capitals,” in: City Halls and Civic Materialism: Towards a Global History of Urban Public

Space, edited by Swati Chattopadhyay and Jeremy White (London: Routledge), pp. 237-254.

Myers, G. (2014) “The Politics and Technologies of Urban Waste,” in: The Routledge Handbook

on Cities of the Global South, edited by Susan Parnell and Sophie Oldfield (London: Routledge),

pp. 448-458.

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Myers, G. (2012) “Urbanism and Urbanization,” in Thomas Spear, ed., Oxford Bibliography

Online in African Studies (New York: Oxford University Press).

Myers, G., Owusu, F., and A. Gray Subulwa. (2012) “Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa”, in 5th

edition, Cities of the World, edited by S. Brunn, M. Hays-Mitchell, and D. Zeigler (Lanham,

MD: Rowman and Littlefield), pp. 331-379.

Myers, G. and A. Gray Subulwa. (2012) “Africa and Transnational Organizations,” in J.

Stoltman, ed., 21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook (Beverly Hills: Sage), pp. 603-

612.

Myers, G., and J. Robinson. (2011) “Cities, Connections and Circulations in Africa,” in David

Adjaye (photography) and Peter Allison (editor), Adjaye Africa Architecture: A Photographic

Survey of Metropolitan Architecture (London: Thames & Hudson), pp. 27-30.

Myers, G., and B. Caminero-Santangelo. (2011) “Introduction,” in: Environment at the Margins:

Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press), pp. 1-21.

Myers, G. (2011) “A Beautiful Country Badly Disfigured: Eric Dutton's The Basuto of

Basutoland”, in: Environment at the Margins: Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa

(Athens, OH: Ohio University Press), pp. 22-42.

Myers, G. (2010) “Representing the Other, Negotiating the Personal and the Political,” in

Handbook of Qualitative Research in Human Geography, edited by M. Crang, L. McDowell, S.

Herbert, and D. DeLyser (London: Sage), pp. 373-387.

Myers, G. (2009) “Naming and Placing the Other: Power and the Urban Landscape in Zanzibar,”

in Critical Toponymies: The Contested Politics of Place Naming, edited by Lawrence Berg and

Jani Vuolteenaho (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate), pp. 85-100 (reprinting of TESG

article above).

Myers, G. (2009) “Africa,” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by R.

Kitchin and N. Thrift (London: Elsevier), pp. 25-30.

Myers, G., and F. Owusu. (2008) “Cities of Sub-Saharan Africa,” in Cities of the World, 4th ed.,

edited by S. Brunn, M. Hays-Mitchell, and D. Zeigler (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield),

pp. 341-383.

Myers, G., and M. Murray. (2006) “Introduction: Situating Contemporary Cities in Africa,” in

Cities in Contemporary Africa, edited by M. Murray and G. Myers (New York: Palgrave

McMillan Press), pp. 1-25. (Paperback edition, 2011)

Herbert, S., J. Gallagher, and G. Myers. (2005) “Fieldwork and Ethnography,” in Questioning

Geography: Essays on a Contested Discipline, edited by Noel Castree, Alistair Rogers and

Douglas Sherman (London: Routledge), pp. 226-240.

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Myers, G. (2004) “African Studies and African Development in the 21st Century,” in African

Studies in the 21st Century, edited by Jacob Gordon (New York: Nova Science Publishers), pp.

245-64.

Myers, G., P. McGreevy, G. Carney, and J. Kenny. (2004) “Cultural Geography,” in Geography

in America at the Dawn of the 21st Century, edited by G. Gaile and C. Willmott (Oxford: Oxford

University Press), pp. 234-281.

Myers, G., J. Livingston, S. Signiski, and A. Stewart. (1999) “New Technologies (and Pretty

Pictures) for Teaching African Physical Geographies,” in Great Ideas for Teaching about Africa,

edited by M. Bastian and J. Parpart (Boulder: Lynne Reinner Press), pp. 177-189.

Klak, T. and G. Myers. (1998) “How States Sell Their Countries and Their People,” in

Globalization and Neoliberalism: The Caribbean Context, edited by T. Klak (Lanham, MD:

Rowman and Littlefield), pp. 87-109.

Klak, T. and G. Myers. (1998) “The Promotion of Neoliberal Industrialization in Third World

Countries,” in Regional Development and Planning for the 21st Century: New Priorities, New

Philosophies, edited by A. Noble, A. Dutt, F. Costa and R. Kent (Brookfield, VT: Ashgate), pp.

245-268.

Myers, G. (1995) “The Early History of the Other Side of Zanzibar Town,” in History and

Conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town, edited by A. Sheriff (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press),

pp. 30-45.

Myers, G. (1994) “From ‘Stinkibar’ to ‘The Island Metropolis’: The Geography of British

Hegemony in Zanzibar,” in Geography and Empire, edited by A. Godlewska and N. Smith

(Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 212-227.

Major Articles or Book Chapters in Press, Review or Preparation

In Press (6)

Myers, G. (2018) “Environmental Issues in Africa’s Cities,” The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia

of Urban and Regional Studies, edited by Anthony Orme, London: Wiley-Blackwell.

Forthcoming.

Myers, G. and A. G. Subulwa (2019) “The Cityscapes of Lusaka and Mongu: Narrating National

Symbolism in Zambia,” in The City as Power: Urban Space, Place, and National Identity, edited

by Joshua Hagen and Alex Diener, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Forthcoming.

Myers, G. (2019) “Multi-Vocal Urban Political Ecology: In Search of New Sensibilities through

Africa’s Cities,” in Urban Political Ecology in the Anthropo-Obscene: Interruptions and

Possibilities, edited by Henrik Ernstson and Erik Swyngedouw, London: Routledge.

Forthcoming.

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Myers, G. (2019) “‘Barack is one of us, Bill loved us, but George gave us more money!’: The

Obama Administration and the US Military in Africa,” invited chapter in Connections and

Disconnections: Africa, Africans and America in the Age of Obama, edited by Ebenezer Obadare

and Damaris Parsitau. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Final version submitted,

August 2017.

Myers, G. (2018) “The Africa Problem of Global Urban Theory: Reconceptualizing Planetary

Urbanization,” submitted September 2017 to International Development Policy for a special

issue, accepted December 2017, proofs reviewed August 2018.

Myers, G. (2019) “Sub-Saharan Africa,” invited chapter in Global Regions, a new World

Regional Geography textbook edited by John Agnew and Kris Olds. Madison: University of

Wisconsin Online Platform, re-submitted, September 2016 and June 2018, accepted August

2018.

In Review or In Revision (2)

Myers, G. (2019) “The Making of Global Cityscapes,” invited chapter in Handbook of Historical

Geography edited by Mona Domosh, Michael Heffernan and Charles Withers. London: Sage

Publications. Draft submitted August 2017; in revision.

Douglass, Kristina, Jonathan Walz, Eréndira Quintana-Morales, Richard Marcus, Garth Myers

and Jacques Pollini, “The Islands and Coasts of Southeast Africa: Contemporary Human-

Environment Dynamics and Concerns in Historical Perspective,” article submitted to

Conservation Biology, April 2018; revised and resubmitted, July 2018.

In Preparation (3)

Myers, G. (2021) Rethinking Urbanism: Lessons from Postcolonial Studies and the Global

South. Book scheduled for January 2020 completion, January 2021 publication. Under contract

with Bristol University Press, Bristol, UK.

Myers, G. (2020) “(Post?)-Colonial Parks: Urban Public Space in Trinidad and Zanzibar,”

invited chapter for A Companion to Public Space, edited by Danilo Palazzo and Vikas Mehta,

London: Routledge.

Myers, G. (2020) “Commentary”, for special issue on “From the Margins Within: Exploring

Urbanism in the Global South,” in preparation for Fall 2018 submission to Gender Place and

Culture.

Reviews and Minor Publications (51)

“Book Review: Swahili Port Cities: The Architecture of Elsewhere, by Prita Meier,” Journal of

African History 59(2) (2018): 316-17.

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“Cultural Studies 50 Years On: History, Practice and Politics, edited by Kieran Connell and

Matthew Hilton,” Social and Cultural Geography (forthcoming).

“Diaspora and Nation in the Indian Ocean: Transnational Histories of Race and Urban Space

in Tanzania, by Ned Bertz,” AAG Review of Books 4(3) 2016: 139-141.

Invited blog entry, “China and Sub-Saharan Africa’s Urban Expansion,” (1000 words), Forum

on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) 6, China Policy Institute (CPI) blog

(https://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/) at the University of Nottingham,7-11

December 2015.

“Living Translocality: Space, Culture and Economy in Contemporary Swahili Trade, by Julia

Verne,” Social and Cultural Geography 15(5) 2014: 585-587.

Myers, G. “Seeing Hartford from an African Metropolis,” Cityscapes 4, December 2013.

Myers, G. (2013) “Commentary”: on Joanne Sharp’s “Geopolitics at the Margins? Reconsidering

Genealogies of Critical Geopolitics,” Political Geography 37: 33-35.

“Seeking Spatial Justice, by Edward Soja,” Material Culture 45(1) 2013: 61-62.

“Home Spaces, Street Styles: Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City, by Leslie

Bank,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 37(1) 2013: 359-360.

“Tenement Cities: From 19th Century Berlin to 21st Century Nairobi, by Marie Huchzermeyer,”

Transformation 80 (2012): 83-85.

Myers, G. (2012) “From Expected to Unexpected Comparisons,” in A World of Cities:

Comparison across the Disciplines, edited by Kevin Ward (Manchester: University of

Manchester cities@manchester program), pp. 39-44.

Myers, G. (2012) “Review Essay: From ‘Us-For-Us’ To ‘Us-For-Everyone’: Zanzibari History

Comes of Age,” Journal of Historical Geography 38(1): 92-95.

“Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning, by Libby Porter,” International Development

Planning Review 34(1) (2012): 105-106.

“Paths Without Glory: Sir Richard Francis Burton in Africa, by James Newman,” Geographical

Review 101(3) (2011): 469-70.

“African Cities: Contesting Claims to Urban Space, by Francesca Locatelli and Paul Nugent,”

African Studies Review 53(1) (2010): 158-60.

“Postcolonialism and Development, by Cheryl McEwan,” The Professional Geographer 62(3)

(2010): 448-50.

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“The African Union,” in Encyclopedia of Geography, Barney Warf, ed. (Beverly Hills: Sage,

2010)

“The Geographies of Garbage Governance, by Anna Davies,” Progress in Human Geography

34(1) (2010): 130-32.

“Taming the Disorderly City, by Martin J. Murray,” Journal of Cultural Geography 26(1)

(2009): 105-106.

“Teaching and Learning Guide for: Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice in

African Cities,” Geography Compass 3 (2009): 1-3.

“Governing From Above, by Onyanta Adama,” Progress in Human Geography 33(1) (2009):

127-128.

“Understanding Places from the Ground Up,” essay for the Digital Initiatives interactive website

for KU Libraries, From the Ground Up, Garth Myers, Paul Hotvedt, Xanthippe Wedel, and Rick

Mitchell, online from March 2008, essay from April 2008.

“Ordering Africa, by Helen Tilley,” Journal of Historical Geography 34 (2008): 525-26.

“The African City: A History, by Bill Freund,” Africa Today 55(1) (2008): 131-33.

“The United States in Africa, by Raymond Copson,” African Affairs 107(427) (2008): 283-284.

“Kilimanjaro: Mountain, Memory, Modernity, edited by Francois Bart, Milline Jethro Mbonile,

and Francois Devenne,” Cultural Geographies 14(3) 2007: 472-73.

“African Urban Economies, edited by Deborah Fahy Bryceson and Deborah Potts,” African

Affairs 106(423) 2007: 332-33.

“Urban Africa, edited by AbdouMaliq Simone and Abdelghani Abouhani,” African Affairs

106(424) 2007: 523-24.

“Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community, by Deborah

Pellow,” The Professional Geographer, 59(1) 2007: 149-151.

“Orientalism,” Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Barney Warf (Beverly Hills: Sage,

2006: 343-44).

“Other/Otherness,” Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Barney Warf (Beverly Hills:

Sage, 2006: 345-46).

“Resistance,” Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Barney Warf (Beverly Hills: Sage,

2006: 409-410).

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“Subaltern Studies,” Encyclopedia of Human Geography, edited by Barney Warf (Beverly Hills:

Sage, 2006: 467).

“Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970, by Erik Gilbert,” Enterprise and

Society, 6 (3) 2005: 504-06.

“For the City Yet to Come, by AbdouMaliq Simone,” Journal of Cultural Geography, 22(3)

2005: 145-46.

“Handbook of Cultural Geography, edited by Kay Anderson, et al.,” Annals of the Association of

American Geographers 93 (4) 2003: 935-936.

“The Urban Experience in Eastern Africa c. 1750-2000, edited by Andrew Burton,” African

Studies Review, 46(2) 2003: 141-142.

“Uniting Divided Cities, by Jo Beall, Owen Crankshaw, and Susan Parnell,” Journal of Southern

African Studies 29(3) 2003: 808-9.

“The Work of Landscape: Paul Hotvedt’s Kansas Paintings,” Exhibit Guide for September 2003

show, Mulvane Museum, Topeka, KS. Also available in brief at: http://www.paulhotvedt.com.

“Urban Geography: a Global Perspective, by Michael Pacione,” International Journal of Urban

and Regional Research 27(2) 2003: 481-2.

Myers, G. (2002) “Planning the Sustainable City: A Political Ecology of Urban Growth in

Zanzibar,” in Human Resource System Challenge VII: Human Settlement Development,

edited by Saskia Sassen, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), developed under the

Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK.

Caminero-Santangelo, B., and G. Myers. (2001) “Safari in Kansas: Around the World with Mr.

And Mrs. Johnson,” Ecumene (Cultural Geographies in Practice essay series) 8(4) 2001: 493-

496.

“Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era, by

Michael Pearson,” Journal of Early Modern History 4(3-4) 2000: 461-463.

“Rural Settlement Structure and African Development, by Marilyn Silberfein,” Annals of the

Association of American Geographers 89(1) 1999: 183-185.

“The Myth of Continents, by Martin Lewis and Karen Wigan,” African Studies Review 41(1)

1998: 178-9.

“The Peopling of Africa, by James Newman,” African Studies Review 41(1) 1998: 172-3.

“The Real Picture World Atlas and Earthscapes in Time: The See-Through Satellite Atlas,”

Geotimes (December 1997: 40).

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“Power of Development, edited by Jonathan Crush,” Urban Geography 18(4) 1997: 366-68.

“Africans: The History of a Continent, by John Iliffe,” Historical Geography 25 1997: 167-9.

“Environment and Development in Third World Cities, by Hamish Main and Stephen W.

Williams,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 85(4) 1995: 767-769.

“Contesting Gramsci: a Review of Contesting Colonial Hegemony, by Dagmar Engels and Shula

Marks,” Southern African Review of Books 35(2) 1995: 6-8.

External Grants Received

“Starting from the South: Alternative Visions of Comparative Urbanism,” Urban Studies

Foundation Seminar Series Grant, PI, with Xiangming Chen of Trinity College, Susan Parnell

and Gordon Pirie of the University of Cape Town, Yuan Ren of Fudan University, and Zhengli

Huang of Tongji University as Co-I’s (20,000 GBP), awarded 2014 for workshops in 2015 and

2016.

“Impacts of Growth of Megacities in Africa: Adapting to the Human Infrastructure in the Urban

Fringe,” Africa Command of the U.S. Army, awarded $40,000 for 2012-13 research, Co-I with

Maj. Thomas Hanlon (PI), Lecturer, Department of Geography, GIS & Environmental

Engineering, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, field research in Dakar, Senegal, January

2013.

National Resource Center and Foreign Language & Area Studies grant, U.S. Department of

Education Title VI Program, awarded July 2010 ($1.7 million for 2010-14), Project Director,

2010-11 and principal author.

National Resource Center and Foreign Language & Area Studies grant, U.S. Department of

Education Title VI Program, awarded July 2006 ($1.4 million for 2006-10), Project Director,

2006-10, and co-author with John Janzen.

Oswald Family Foundation, pilot program for supporting student field research on applied health

and development policy in Africa, awarded for 2008-09 ($12,000), co-PI with Elizabeth Asiedu.

National Science Foundation: “Peri-Urban Land Reform and Political-Economic Reform in

Zanzibar, Tanzania,” 2006-2008 ($123,983), PI.

Longview Foundation, awarded for 2006-07 ($20,000), co-PI with John Janzen and Khalid El-

Hassan, “Teaching Africa and the Middle East in the Midwest.”

Kansas Humanities Council: “Identity, Voice, and Community among New African Immigrants

to Kansas,” 2005 ($8,000), co-PI with John Janzen as PI.

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Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs College and University Affiliation Program, US

Department of State: “Partnership between the University of Kansas and the University of

Zambia: Enhancing Technological Capabilities in Environmental Science Teaching and

Research,” 2000-2004 ($142,138), Principal Author and Project Director, with Imasiku Nyambe

as co-Director, and Johan Feddema and Iwake Masialeti as Assistant Directors.

Fulbright Africa Regional Research Program: “Participatory Urban Planning and the Sustainable

Cities Program in Lusaka, Dar es Salaam, and Zanzibar,” 2002-3 ($48,125), PI.

National Science Foundation: Dissertation Improvement Grant, Geography and Regional Science

Program: “Fire Breaks: Conservation Planning, Place-Making, and Fractured Identities in the

Gran Sabana, Venezuela,” 2001-2002 ($10,000), co-PI, with Barbara Lynch as PI and Bjorn

Sletto as co-PI.

National Geographic Society Committee on Research and Exploration: “Resource Management

and Development in Zanzibar's Coral Bush Areas,” 1999 ($16,295), PI, with Makame Muhajir as

In-Country Collaborator.

National Science Foundation: “Research Workshop on African Environments: Technology,

Modeling, and Political Ecology,” 1999 ($29,488), PI, with Johannes J. Feddema as co-PI.

Association of American Geographers Research Grant: “Resource Management and

Development in Zanzibar's Coral Bush Areas,” 1999 ($750), PI.

American Council of Learned Societies: Competitive Grant for International Conference Travel,

1996 ($500).

U.S. Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-2

($18,625).

Social Science Research Council Africa Program Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1991-2

($4275).

Fulbright-Hays GPA Fellowship, 1989, Intensive Kiswahili in Kenya and Tanzania ($1300).

Internal Grants Received

Public Humanities Forum, Community Learning Initiative, Summer 2018, for work with three

students on Hartford-based research for Postcolonial Urbanism: Southern Thinking, Global

Links. $1200.

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Luce Foundation Faculty Research Fellowship, from CUGS, for research on two chapters in

Postcolonial Urbanism: Southern Thinking, Global Links, Hong Kong and Shenzhen, China,

March 2018, $1500.

Center for Caribbean Studies, for research on “The Useful and Ornamental Plants of British

Colonialism,” Trinidad and Jamaica, Summer 2017, $1500.

Pilot Project, MOOC Course, “Sustainable Urban Environments,” with Mary Rickel Pelletier,

Trinity, $8000.

Presidential Mellon Grant, for Co-Curricular Initiative on Cities, 2012-13, with Dario Euraque,

Trinity, $14,000.

Community Learning Initiative Course Development Grant, for URST 210: Sustainable Urban

Development, taught in Spring 2013, Trinity, $1000.

KU Hall Center for the Humanities, Humanities Research Fellowship, Fall 2009, for African

Cities.

KU Humanities General Research Fund FY 2006, “Citizens of Global Zanzibar,” $5888, July

2005.

KU Center for Research, Major Project Planning Grant, 2004-5, for “Enhancing the

Competitiveness of the Kansas African Studies Center for National Resource Center Funding,”

co-PI with John Janzen as PI.

KU Center for Teaching Excellence, Teaching Grant, African Studies Summer Institute, June

2004.

KU Humanities General Research Fund, 2001, for “Urban Poverty and Urban Sustainability:

Small Scale Mining and Modern Living in Lusaka’s Compounds” ($5888).

KU Humanities General Research Fund, 1999 and 2000, for “Resource Management and

Development in Zanzibar's Coral Bush Areas” ($5598 and $5888).

KU Research Development Fund, awarded 1998: “Research on African Environments:

Technology, Politics, Population and Indigenous Knowledge” ($14,857).

KU Hall Humanities Center Travel Grants, 1996 and 2000: Archival Research in the United

Kingdom ($1310) and Zambia ($1190).

KU Center for Teaching Excellence Small Grant for Teaching Enhancement, 1998 ($150).

KU New Faculty General Research Program, 1997: “Geography and the Postcolonial City: Ajit

Singh in Malawi” ($4994).

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KU International Programs Research Fund, 1997: Archival and Field Research in Malawi

($1000).

University Committee on Research, University of Nebraska Omaha, 1995: Summer Research

Fellowship in Zanzibar, Tanzania ($7920).

UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs, Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1991-2

($10,000).

UCLA Bruman Fellowship in Cultural-Historical Geography, 1991-2 ($1500).

UCLA National Resource Fellowship (Title VI: Kiswahili), 1988-90 ($15,000).

Presentations

“The Pearl River Delta's Urban Villages and Africa's Cities: Comparative Processes of Rapid

Urbanization,” paper presented at the Trinity College Luce Symposium, “A Tale of Two River

Regions,” Hartford, April 2018.

“Reconceptualizing Planetary Urbanization: Looking at Hartford from its Global Southern

Heart,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New

Orleans, April 2018.

“The Future of Africa’s Cities,” paper presented at the University of Vienna, Austria, and

University of Dortmund, Germany, January 2018.

“Uncommon Misery: Tumbatu and Fifty Years of the Zanzibar Revolution,” (co-presented with

M.A. Muhajir), “The Obama Administration and the US Military in Africa,” and “The Useful

and Ornamental Plants of British Colonialism,” all presented at the Annual Meeting, African

Studies Association, Chicago, November 18, 2017.

“Links and Flows in the Production of African Urban Space,” European Conference of African

Studies, Basel, Switzerland, June 30, 2017.

“Multi-Vocal Urban Political Ecology: In Search of New Sensibilities through Africa’s Cities,”

Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA, April 8, 2017

“Indigenous and Postcolonial Perspectives on Hartford and Planetary Urbanization,” Workshop

on Engaging the Urban in the Liberal Arts, Trinity College, April 1, 2017

“Urban Environments in Africa,” presentation to the University of Virginia African Humanities

Project, Charlottesville, VA, March 2, 2017

“Grassroots Urban Activism and Radical Incrementalism in Africa’s Cities in Relation to East

Asia,” paper presented to the East Asian Regional Conference in Alternative Geography

(EARCAG), December 6-8, 2016, Hong Kong.

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“Urban Environments in Africa: Sustainable Development and Grassroots Socio-Environmental

Justice,” presented to Africa Week Symposium, University of Richmond, September 29, 2016,

Richmond, VA.

“Looking at US Cities from Urban Africa,” presented to the PIER Summer Institute, Yale

University, July 9, 2016, New Haven, CT.

“African Migration Stories,” presented at the NEH-funded forum of the same title, Kansas City,

MO, May 9, 2016.

“Grassroots Environmental Activism in Africa’s Cities,” presented at Winston-Salem State

University, Winston-Salem, NC, April 7, 2016.

“Towards a Typology of Suburbs in Africa?”, paper presented at the annual meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, March 29, 2016, and the annual meeting

of the African Studies Association, December 1-3, 2016, Washington, DC.

“The Useful and Ornamental Plants of British Colonialism,” paper presented at the “Turning

Tides” conference, University of the West Indies, Trinidad, February 18, 2016.

“Urban Political Ecology and God's Bits of Wood: Implications for Contemporary Senegal,”

paper presented at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, San Diego, CA,

November 20, 2015.

“Radical Incrementalism and Grassroots Politics in Africa-Centered Urban Political Ecology,”

paper presented to the conference on “Rupturing the Anthro-Obscene,” Stockholm University,

Stockholm, Sweden, September 18, 2015; and at the West Africa Research Association

conference, Dakar, Senegal, June 2, 2016.

“African Ideas of the Urban,” European Conference on African Studies (ECAS VI), Paris,

France, July 8, 2015.

Invited Participant and Session Chair, “Managing Smart Coastal Cities,” at the International

Conference on the Indian Ocean: A Maritime Region on the Rise, German Federal Foreign

Office, Berlin, June 9, 2015.

“Emerging African Ideas of the Urban: Infrastructure, Services and Planning,” invited

presentation at the conference on “African Dreams: Imaginations of Urban Life and

Infrastructure in the African Metropolis,” Oxford University, UK, June 8, 2015.

“Sanitation and Waste,” invited presentation to the conference on “The Urban Beyond Measure:

Registering Urban Environments in the Global South,” Stanford University, May 8-9, 2015.

“Thinking Urban Political Ecology from Sub-Saharan Africa,” Paper presented at the annual

meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 23, 2015.

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“Doing Situated Urban Political Ecology 2: Reflections from the Field,” Panelist, annual meeting

of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, April 23, 2015.

“Readings of the Past: The Urban Biogeography of (Post?)Colonialism in Lusaka,” presented to

the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Indianapolis, IN, November 22, 2014.

“(Sh/c)ould there be ‘African’ urban political ecologies?”, presented to the Antipode Workshop

on Situating Urban Political Ecology, University of Pretoria, Tshwane, South Africa (by skype),

September 23, 2014; and Clark University School of Geography Colloquium (as “Doing Urban

Political Ecology in Sub-Saharan Africa”), January 2015.

“Starting from the South: Alternative Visions of Comparative Urbanism,” paper presented to the

annual meeting of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers,

London, August 2014; as the keynote speaker for the 20th Anniversary Conference of the Mid-

America Alliance for African Studies, University of Kansas, October 2014 (as “Building from

the South: Comparative Urbanism from African Knowledge Bases”); and at the Urban Studies

Foundation Workshop of the same title, Cape Town, South Africa, March 2015.

Discussant, “Fragile Cities,” OECD INCAF Knowledge and Policy Task Team Meeting,

September 24, 2014, Paris (by skype).

“How I Came to Urban Studies,” presented to Technos College International Week, Tokyo,

Japan, June 2014.

“Narrating Zambia from Lusaka and Mongu,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Tampa, FL, April 10, 2014.

Invited Panelist, “Visionary Urban Africa” Roundtable, Centre for Fine Arts Brussels (BOZAR)

and UN Habitat, European Union-African Union Summit 4, Brussels, Belgium, April 3, 2014.

“Remaking the Edges: Sub-Saharan Africa’s New Suburbs,” paper presented to the Africa at

Noon Seminar Series, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, February 19, 2014, the Geography

Colloquium at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, March 26, 2014, the Geography and

Environmental Sciences Seminar Series, University of Cape Town, South Africa, May 22, 2014,

and the University of Virginia International Urban Planning Symposium, September 26, 2014.

“Seeking Socio-environmental and Spatial Justice in African Cities,” paper presented to the

workshop on Social Justice and the City, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, December

5, 2013 and the Dimensions of Political Ecology Conference, University of Kentucky, 1 March,

2014.

“Accelerating Pro-Poor Transitions to Urban Sanitation,” presented in the symposium, “Planning

Practices that Matter: Housing for Resilient Cities,” MIT, Cambridge MA, November 16, 2013.

Panelist, “Innovative Recycling: Sustainable Resource Use in a Competitive Business

Environment,” Trinity College, November 12, 2013

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“Reading Urban Environments in Africa,” paper presented to the Nature & Culture Seminar,

University of Kansas, October 2013.

“From Expected to Unexpected Comparison: Changing the Flows of Ideas about Cities in a Post-

Colonial Urban World,” paper presented to the forum on Postcolonial Geographies, National

University of Singapore, February 2013, and the Association of American Geographers annual

meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 2013.

“Fostering Ties Between Ecocriticism and Urban Political Ecology in Africa,” African Studies

Association annual meeting, Philadelphia, November 29, 2012, the African Literature

Association, Charleston, SC, March 22, 2013, and the European Conference on African Studies,

Lisbon, June 27-29, 2013.

“A World-Class City Region, a Burning Metropolis: Envisioning the Nairobi of 2030,” paper

presented to the University of Connecticut Geography Department Seminar, April 19, 2013, and

the Cities 2030 Conference, University of Miami, April 5, 2013.

“Place and Displacement in Africa’s Cities,” Trinity College Institute for Interdisciplinary

Studies and Co-Curricular Initiative on Cities, November 27, 2012.

“How Africa’s Cities Matter,” Urban Studies Program and Geography Department, Vassar

College, Poughkeepsie, NY, October 2012.

“Trans-territorial Urbanism and Re-localization in African Urban Areas,” Shanghai Forum 2012,

Shanghai, China, May 25-27, 2012.

“From Expected to Unexpected Comparisons,” presented to a workshop on “A World of Cities?

Comparison across the Disciplines,” Cities@Manchester Research Group, Manchester

University, UK, May 17-18, 2012.

Invited Panelist, “Institutions and Politics around Access to Land in Africa,” International

Development Group, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, April 19, 2012.

Invited Panelist, “Humanitarianism and its Ghosts: Responding to Famine in Somalia,” Research

Program on Humanitarianism, Human Rights Institute, University of Connecticut, April 11,

2012.

“Can Divided Cities Become Inclusive Cities?” Inaugural Lecture, Paul E. Raether Distinguished

Professorship in Urban International Studies, March 8, 2012, Trinity College, Hartford, CT.

“Urban Governance and Urban Politics in East Africa: A New Era?”, paper presented to the

annual meeting of the African Studies Association, November 2011, Washington, DC; and

Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New York, February 2012.

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“Alternative Visions of Urbanism: Cases from East Africa,” presentation to Interdisciplinary

Debates on Cities, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, October, 2011.

“What Causes City Dwellers to Riot, and How Do Cities Recover Afterwards?,” lecture

presented to Idea Café, The Commons, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas,

October 2011.

“Why Africa’s Cities Matter to Urban Studies,” presented at Trinity College, September 2011;

and US Military Academy, West Point, NY, November 2011.

“Moving Beyond Colonialism: Town Halls and Sub-Saharan Africa’s Postcolonial Capitals,”

paper presented to the European Conference on African Studies (ECAS 4), Uppsala, Sweden,

June 2011.

“Postcolonial African Cities,” paper presented to the conference on “The Art of Citizenship in

Urban Africa,” Columbia University, New York, May 2011.

“Tanzania’s Changing Political Geography,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA, April 2011.

“Seven Themes for African Urban Dynamics,” Keynote Address, Nordic Africa Institute Urban

Dynamic Research Cluster Workshop on “Beyond Dysfunctionality: Pro-Social Writing on

African Cities,” Uppsala, Sweden, October 2010.

“Governing Africa’s Cities,” presented to the Urban Salon, University of London system,

University College London, October 2010; Mid-America Alliance for African Studies annual

meeting, Lawrence, KS, October 2010; Baraza Seminar, Center for African Studies, University

of Florida, November 2010; and the University of Minnesota Geography Seminar, April 2011.

“Assessing and Theorizing Solid Waste Management and Governance in African Cities,”

presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, DC,

April 2010.

“Informality in African Cities: Alternative Visions for Urban Theory and Planning Practice,”

presented at The Ohio State University Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture, Columbus,

OH, November 2009; and the Hall Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellows Seminar,

December 2009.

“What if the Postmetropolis is Lusaka?”, presented to the European Conference on African

Studies, Leipzig, Germany, June 2009 and the University of Chicago’s Cities Colloquium, April

2010.

Participant and Discussant, Cities Alliance Workshop on the State of the Cities Reporting

Project, African Center for Cities, University of Cape Town, South Africa, April 2009.

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“Social Construction of Peri-Urban Places and Alternative Planning in Zanzibar,” paper

presented to the Association of American Geographers meeting in Las Vegas, NV, March 2009.

“Justice and Sustainable Development in Africa’s Cities,” paper presented to the African

Symposium at Kansas State University, March 2009; and the Africa Forum at University of the

Sciences and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK, April 2009.

“Revolutionary Thinking about Urban Planning and Design in Africa: Tanzania and South

Africa,” presented to the Workshop on The Meaning of Revolutions in the Arts and Sciences,

multi-center collaboration at the University of Kansas, February 2009.

“A Beautiful Country Badly Disfigured: Imperial Gullies in Eric Dutton's The Basuto of

Basutoland”, paper presented to the Colloquium on Literary and Environmental Studies in

Africa, Kansas African Studies Center, March 2008.

“What Zanzibar’s Peri-Urban Poor Think about Pro-Poor Planning,” paper presented at the

annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, April 2008; the

Geography colloquium at Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, February 2008; the

African Studies Center, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, March 2008; the Institute of

British Geographers meeting, London, UK, September 2008; and the Mid-America Alliance for

African Studies meeting, St. Louis, October 2008.

“Sustainable Development and Environmental Justice in African Cities,” paper presented to the

annual meetings of the Institute of British Geographers, London, August 2007, the Mid-America

Alliance for African Studies, Lawrence, September 2007, the African Studies Association, New

York, October 2007, and the Nature & Culture Seminar, Hall Center for the Humanities,

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS February 2008.

“The Land is (Not) Ours: Land Reform and Urban Expansion in Zanzibar,” paper presented at

the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, San Francisco, April 2007, and to the

Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, May 2007.

“Representations of Mogadishu in Black Hawk Down and Nuruddin Farah’s novels,” paper

presented to the Fall Faculty Colloquium on Representing the Middle East, Hall Center for the

Humanities, University of Kansas, September 2006, and the Mid-America Alliance for African

Studies annual meeting, St. Louis, MO, November 2006.

“Reform of Peri-Urban Land and Environmental Management in Zanzibar,” paper presented at

the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco, November 2006.

“Stormy Geographies of Swahili Identity: Tumbatu Island and East Africa,” paper presented at

the conference on Maritime Heritage of the Indian Ocean in Comparative Perspective organized

by the British Institute in Eastern Africa, in Zanzibar, July 2006.

“Citizens of Global Zanzibar,” presented to the Office of International Programs Faculty

Seminar, May 2006.

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“Links and Desertion: Locating Culture in Postcolonial Fictional Mogadishu and Zanzibar,”

presented at the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Chicago, March 2006,

and the James Seaver Lecture for the KU Humanities and Western Civilization Program,

February 2006.

Hall Center for the Humanities lecture series on Discourses: Theory across the Disciplines: Homi

Bhabha’s The Location of Culture, University of Kansas, April 2006.

“European Aid to African Cities: Top-Down Donor-Driven Bottom-Up Localized

Development,” presented to the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies, Springfield, MO,

September 2005, the Critical Geography Conference at Miami University, Oxford, OH, October

2005, and the Workshop on African Urban Infrastructure, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, May 2006.

“Postcolonial Modernities: Citizens and Subjects in Lusaka and Zanzibar,” Invited lecture to the

Center for Ethics and World Societies, Cities, Citizenship and Modernity series, Colgate

University, Hamilton, NY, and the Workshop on Urban Sociology and Geography Research at

Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY, October 2005.

“Postmetropolis or Disposable City? Six Discourses of Lusaka,” presented to the Social and

Cultural Geography seminar, Distinguished Visitor Program, University College London, March

2005, and the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO April

2005.

“The Mirror that Zanzibar Puts Up for the World,” African Studies Association annual meeting,

New Orleans, November 2004.

“African Immigrants in the Land of Oz,” Hall Center for the Humanities, Shifting Borders

Seminar series, November 2004.

“African Studies and African Development in the 21st Century,” paper presented to the

conference on Africa and Its Challenges in the 21st Century, Kutztown University, Kutztown,

PA, March 22, 2004.

“The Unauthorized City: Late Colonial Housing in Lusaka, Zambia,” paper presented to the

International Conference of Historical Geographers, Auckland, New Zealand, December 8-13,

2003.

“Planning Sustainable Cities in Eastern and Southern Africa,” paper presented to the annual

meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, March 17, 2004; to the

geography colloquium series at Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, December 1, 2003; and

to the geography colloquium series at the University of Kansas, September 26, 2003.

“What’s So Postcolonial About Lusaka?”, paper presented to the annual meeting of the Institute

of British Geographers-Royal Geographical Society, London, September 2003.

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“The Unauthorized City: Exclusionary Democracy and the Domestication of Difference in

Lusaka,” paper presented to the Institute for Historical Research Seminar Series in Historical

Geography, University College, London, May 2003.

“Postcolonial Exclusivity and the Pitfalls of Participatory Planning in Lusaka,” paper presented

to the Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New Orleans, NO, March 2003.

“Good Governance and Sustainability in Lusaka?” paper presented to the African Studies

Association annual meeting, Washington, DC, December 2002.

“Globalization and African Cities,” paper presented to the annual meeting of the Mid-America

Alliance for African Studies, Norman, OK, September 21, 2002.

Named Participant, National Science Foundation workshop on “Space, Race and Migration in

Comparative Perspective”, a collaboration of US and South African geographers, August 9-12,

2002, Johannesburg, South Africa.

“Political Ecology, the Politics of Scale, and the Sustainable Cities Program in Southern Africa,”

paper presented to the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los

Angeles, CA, March 19-23, 2002, and the regional meeting of the International Geographical

Union, Durban, South Africa, August 4-8, 2002.

“Designing Power: The Changing Forms and Purposes of Colonial Model Neighborhoods in

British Africa, 1922-1958”, paper presented to the annual meeting of the Institute of British

Geographers and Royal Geographical Society, Belfast, Northern Ireland, January 3, 2002.

“Local Cultural Geographies of Power in African Natural Resources Management,” paper

presented to the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies in Saint Louis, September 28, 2001,

and to the African Studies Association in Houston, November 15, 2001.

“Colonial and Postcolonial Modernities in East African Cities,” paper presented at the

Association of American Geographers annual meeting, New York, February 27-March 3, 2001,

and at the Rutgers University conference on “Contesting Africa’s Cities,” New Brunswick, NJ,

March 29-31, 2001.

“Planning the Sustainable City: a Political Ecology of Urban Growth in Zanzibar,” paper

presented to the Urban Futures 2000 conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg,

South Africa, July 10-14, 2000.

“The Local in the Global: Cultural Geography in Zanzibari Globalization,” paper presented to

the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, March 2000.

“A Spacious Kingdom: Space, Africa and Africans in Eric Dutton's Writings,” paper presented to

the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 1999.

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“Narrative Representations of Zanzibar's Revolution,” paper presented to the annual meeting of

the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies, September 1999, Lawrence, KS.

“Whose Environment is This? Zanzibar's Cultural Politics of Planning,” paper presented to the

annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI, March 1999.

“A Political Geography of Regionalism and Democratization in Tanzania,” paper presented to

the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies, September 1998, Wichita.

“The Politics of Urban Design in Lusaka, Zanzibar and Lilongwe,” paper presented to the

African Studies Association, Chicago, October 29-November 1, 1998.

“Geopolitics and Narrative Representations of Zanzibar's Revolution,” paper presented to the

Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Boston, MA, March 1998.

“The Sikh Patient: Ajit Singh and the Building of Despotic Africa,” paper presented to the

African Studies Association annual meeting, Columbus, OH, November 1997.

“Re-Imaging Africa Through Hi-Tech Geography: Pretty Pictures or Ground Truth?,” paper

presented with Jack Livingston at the annual meeting of the Mid-America Alliance for African

Studies, Norman, OK, September 1997.

“The Triple Challenge Facing African Cities,” presented at the National Conference of Black

Mayors, St. Louis, April 1997.

“Intellectual of Empire: Eric Dutton and Hegemony in British Africa,” paper presented to the

Association of American Geographers annual meeting, Fort Worth, April 1997.

“Eric Dutton's Africa: Urban Space and Verandahs of Power,” paper presented to the African

Studies Association, San Francisco, November 1996.

“A Political Ecology of Zanzibar's Construction Industry,” paper presented to the annual meeting

of the Mid-America Alliance for African Studies, St. Louis, October 1996.

“Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge into African Urban Planning and Design: a Case Study,”

paper presented to the Center for Architecture and Design, University of Hong Kong, June 1996.

“Sticks and Stones: Hegemony and the Language of African Houses,” paper presented to the

Conference on Knowledge and Discourse, University of Hong Kong, June 1996.

“Industrialization-by-Invitation in the 1990s: A Comparison across Third World Countries,”

paper presented to the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 1996 (with

Thomas Klak).

“Sticks and Stones: Politics and Construction in Post-Colonial Tan/Zania,” paper presented to

the Association of American Geographers, Charlotte, April 1996.

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“Using Electronic Mail in African Studies Research and Teaching,” paper presented to the Africa

2000 Conference, University of Kansas, Lawrence, September 1995.

“The Monster Who Knows You: Democracy and Development in Zanzibar,” paper

presented to the African Studies Association, Orlando, November 1995.

“After the COLE War: Development Planning and Democracy in Zanzibar,” paper

presented to the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March 1995.

“Naming and Placing the Other: Power and the Urban Landscape in Zanzibar,” paper presented

to the Symposium on Landscape and Identity, Northwestern University, April 1994.

“Making the Socialist City of Zanzibar,” paper presented to the Association of American

Geographers, San Francisco, April 1994.

“Gender and the Development of Export Processing Zones in the Developing World” (with

Thomas Klak), presentation to Miami University Women's Studies Conference, Oxford, Ohio,

November 1993.

“'A Stupendous Hammer': Colonial and Post-Colonial Urban Policy in Zanzibar,” paper

presented to the African Studies Association, Boston, November 1993.

“Power, Faith and Custom on Zanzibar's Other Side,” paper presented to the Association of

American Geographers, Atlanta, April 1993.

“The Early History of the Other Side of Zanzibar Town,” paper presented to the International

Conference on the History and Culture of Zanzibar, in Zanzibar, Tanzania, December 1992.

“H.V. Lanchester, G.H. Shelswell-White and the Geography of British Hegemony in Zanzibar,”

paper presented to the Conference on Geography and Empire, Kingston, Ontario, April 1991.

“Space and Social Transformation in Malindi: The 'Geography of Postmodernization?',” paper

presented to the Association of American Geographers, Toronto, April 1990.

“Advertising Kenya: Prosperity, Stability and Consciousness,” paper presented to the African

Studies Association, Baltimore, November 1990.

“Taking Malindi Apart: 'The Geography of Postmodernization in Kenya'?,” paper presented to

the Conference on Social Science Issues, San Diego State University, May 1990.

Honors Received

• Kwadwo Konadu Agyemang Distinguished Scholar Award, 2010, Africa Specialty Group of

the Association of American Geographers (1st time award was given)

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• Nominated Finalist, Chancellor’s Teaching Award, University of Kansas, Spring 2009

• James Seaver Lecture, Humanities and Western Civilization Program, University of Kansas,

February, 2006

• Distinguished Visitor Program, University College London Department of Geography,

March 9-23, 2005

• University of Kansas, Provost’s Award for Leadership in International Education, 2003

($1000)

• University of Kansas, Kemper Foundation Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 2000

($5000)

• University of Kansas Center for Teaching Excellence, Teacher Appreciation award for

graduate teaching in Geography, 1999

• University of Kansas Geography Department, Departmental Nomination for Kemper

Foundation Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, 1999

• AAG Cultural Geography Specialty Group Award 1993 Best Student Paper (for “Power,

Faith and Custom”)

• AAG Political Geography Specialty Group Award 1991 Best Student Paper (Honorable

Mention, for “Taking Malindi Apart”)

• Graduate Division Award for Thesis Research 1986 University of California, Los Angeles

• Goodwin Commencement Speaker Prize, O'Brian Graduate Fellowship, Brown Composition

Prize, Forbes-Rickard Poetry Prize, 1984, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.

Fieldwork and Research Experience

• Archival Research and Interviewing, Hartford, Summer and Fall 2018.

• Fieldwork, Shenzhen, China, March 2018.

• Fieldwork and Archival Research, Trinidad and Jamaica, July-August 2017.

• Fieldwork, Zanzibar, January 2017, August 2018 and January 2019.

• Team Teacher, Trinity College course on Cities of the Pearl River Delta, China, June 2016.

• Technos College Study Tour, Tokyo, June 2014.

• Research in Lusaka, June 2013.

• Research in Pikine and Dakar, Senegal, January 2013.

• Preliminary Research in Nairobi, July 2012.

• Study Tour, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, June 2012.

• Leader, KU Study Abroad course at the International School, Rhodes University,

Grahamstown, South Africa, June-July 2009.

• Research in Helsinki, Finland, May 2007.

• Research in Zanzibar and Dodoma, Tanzania, June-July 2006, 2007 and 2008.

• Research on and with Tanzanians in Wichita and Kansas City, June-October 2005.

• Research in Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar, Tanzania, May-August 2003 (3 months total).

• Research in Lusaka, Zambia, July 2000, January 2002, May-June 2002, December 2002-

January 2003, and June 2004 (five months total).

• Fieldwork in Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1999-2000 (four months total).

• Archival Research and Fieldwork conducted in Malawi and Tanzania, 1997 (one month).

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• Archival Research in Oxford and London, 1996 (one month).

• Research for Columbia Gazetteer of the World on toponyms of Mauritius and Seychelles,

1996.

• Fieldwork in Zanzibar, Tanzania, 1995 (three months).

• Dissertation Fieldwork and Archival Research in Tanzania and the United Kingdom, 1991-2

(one year).

• Pre-dissertation Fieldwork and Language Training in Kenya and Tanzania, 1989 (two

months).

• Research Assistant, UCLA African Studies Center Development Institute, 1984-6.

• Research Internship, St. Lawrence University in Kenya, 1982.

Memberships and Professional Service

National and International

❑ Review Panelist for East Africa, Fulbright program, 2018-2020.

❑ Review Panelist for the Humanities and Social Sciences, German Research Foundation,

Bonn, June 2018.

❑ Association of American Geographers: member since 1988, Chair of the Cultural Geography

Specialty Group (CGSG), 1998-2000; Secretary-Treasurer of the CGSG, 1995-8.

❑ Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers, Fellow since 2001.

❑ American Geographical Society: member 1999-2011.

❑ African Studies Association: member since 1988, member of Association of Concerned

Africa Scholars from 1990-1995; and Tanzania Studies Association since 1996; Program

Committee, 2017 Annual Meeting.

❑ Association of African Studies Programs, University of Kansas representative, 2004-08.

❑ Co-Editor, Historical Geography, 2006-14; Member, Editorial Board, 2005-06.

❑ Member, Editorial Board, Cultural Geographies (formerly Ecumene), 1999-2009.

❑ Member, Editorial Board, African Studies Review, 2018-.

❑ Book Review Editor for the Americas, Cultural Geographies, 2003-2009.

❑ Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Historical Geography, 2005-14.

❑ Member, Editorial Board, Africa Insights book series, Zed Books, 2016-

❑ Book Series Co-Editor, Africa Connects, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2009-

❑ USIA University Affiliations Grant Faculty Panel for Environment Proposals, 1997.

Regional

❑ Mid-America Alliance for African Studies: member 1995-2012, Secretary-Treasurer 1997-9,

Assistant Secretary-Treasurer, 1999-2003; Vice-President/President-Elect, 2005-06 and

2009-10; President, 2006-07 and 2010-11, Past President, 2007-08 and 2011-12. Keynote

Speaker, 2014.

❑ Regional Council for African Studies and Connecticut Consortium for African Studies, Yale

University, 2011-14.

❑ Affiliate, Urban Africa Graduate Student Research Group, MIT Department of Urban Studies

and Planning, 2012-14.

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University, College, and Departmental

Trinity College

Director, Urban Studies Program, 2013-. Chair, Search Committee, Urban Studies Faculty

Position, 2017-18

Member, Academic Freedom Committee, 2017-19, Chair, 2017-18

Member, Implementation Group, Trinity Strategic Plan, 2017-

Member, Working Group on Community Engagement, Spring 2018.

Member, review committees for Tim Landry (Religion) and Rachel Moskowitz (Public Policy)

For reappointment, Spring 2018

Member, Appointments & Promotions Committee, 2013-17, Chair, 2016-17

Search Committee, CUGS Postdoctoral Fellowship, Spring 2016 and Spring 2018

Moderator, Panel on Hartford, CUGS 10th Anniversary Symposium, October 2017

Advisory Board, Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS), 2011-15

Faculty Advisory Board, Communications, 2013-15

Search Committee, Faculty Position in Public Policy & Law, 2014-15; Advisory Board, Public

Policy & Law, 2015-

Faculty Committee, NEASC Accreditation, 2015-17

Member, Title IX Compliance Sub-Committee, 2015

Member, Committee for 200 Constitution Plaza Planning, 2015-16

Moderator, “Connecting to the City” Academic Symposium for the Inauguration of Joanne

Berger-Sweeney as Trinity College President, October 24, 2014.

Faculty Representative, Technos College International Week, Tokyo, June 2014

Lecture to the National Alumni Association Board, New York, April 2014

Self-Study Committee 2011-12; McGill Visiting Professorship Search Committee, Spring 2013;

International Studies Program

Advisory Board, Environmental Sciences Program, 2012-15

Advisory Board, Career Development, 2012-14

Study Abroad Faculty Advisory Committee, 2012-14

Levy Fellowship Award Committee, CUGS, 2012-14 and 2016-

Coordinator, Urban Studies Minor, 2011-

Co-Author, Urban Studies Major proposal, 2011-13

Co-Director, Co-Curricular Initiative on “Cities”, 2012-13

Lecturer, Class on the Quad Alumni College, June 2012

Outside Member, Search Committee, Political Science, 2012-13

Member, Search Committee, Dean of the Faculty, 2013

University of Kansas

Director, University of Kansas African Studies Center, 2006-11; Secretary of Executive

Committee, 1998-2000, Associate Director, 2002-03 and 2004-06, Acting Director, Spring 2004;

Director, University Affiliation Program with the University of Zambia, 2000-2004.

Department of Geography Student Affairs Committee, 1995-8; Colloquium Committee, 1998-

2000 and 2008-09 (Chair 1998-2000); Undergraduate Affairs Committee, 2000-02; Faculty

Affairs Committee, 2003-05; Curriculum Committee 2005-07 (Chair 2005-06).

Department of African and African American Studies Faculty Affairs Committee, 1996-2009.

Faculty Mentor, Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams, 2005-11. (NCAA Champions, 2008)

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University Honors Fellowship Proposal Evaluation Committee, 1998.

University Faculty Rights, Privileges and Responsibilities Committee, 2000-2003.

College Committee on Sabbatical Leaves, 2003-6 (Chair, 2004-05 and 2005-06).

Center for Global and International Studies, Steering Committee, 2008-09.

University Committee on Sabbatical Leaves, 2006-07.

University Dissertation Fellowship Committee, 2005 and 2008.

International Programs Provost Award (Woodyard Award) Committee, 2004-05 and 2007-08.

Fulbright Evaluation Committee, 2003-5.

Humanities General Research Fund Evaluation Committee, 1998.

Graduate Council Standing Committee on Graduate Faculty Appointments, 2001-2002.

Dean’s Review Committee, MA Program in International Studies, 2005-2006.

College Graduate Program Review Committee, 2005-2006.

Senior Administrative Fellows program, 2007-08.

Search Committee, Associate Vice-Provost for International Programs, 2007-08.

Chancellor’s Task Force on Innovation, Sub-Committee on ‘Raising the Research Bar’, 2008

Executive Committee of the Graduate Faculty, Office of Graduate Studies, 2008-09.

Leader, International Area Studies Centers’ Strategic Initiative on “Immigration, Migration, and

Diaspora,” 2011.

Graduate Student Supervision

PhD:

Jack Livingston (PhD 2001) Associate Professor, Slippery Rock University; Fulbright to Trinidad

Peter Sam (PhD 2002) Senior Scientist, US Environmental Protection Agency

Mohamed A. M. Dosi (PhD 2003) Assistant Professor (2007-11), East Stroudsburg University;

University of Memphis (2004-7); Immigration Officer, Lincoln NE and

Washington DC (2013-)

Mark Carper (PhD 2004) Assistant Professor, Northeastern State University, Oklahoma (2011-13);

University of Alaska-Anchorage (2005-11); Community Organizer, Ohio

(2013-); Fulbright to Bulgaria

Cameron McCormick (PhD 2004) Associate Professor, Spokane Falls Community College (2007-); Central Washington University (2004-7); Fulbright to Cameroon

Sarah Smiley (PhD 2007) Associate Professor, Kent State University (2010-); Morgan State

University (2007-10); KU Self Fellowship, Fulbright to Tanzania

Joshua Long (PhD 2008) Associate Professor, Southwestern University, TX (2011-); Franklin

College Switzerland (2009-11); Mount Holyoke College (2008-09)

Angela Gray (PhD 2009) Associate Professor, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (2008-)

Fulbright to Zambia, 2007-08 Dissertation Fellowship at KU Makame Muhajir (PhD 2011) Minerva Fellow, US Military Academy (West Point) (2012-13);

Community Organizer, Seattle (2014-) Shimantini Shome (PhD 2011) Assistant Professor, Concord University, WV (2011-)

Hilary Hungerford* (PhD 2012) Associate Professor, Utah Valley University (2015-); South Dakota State

University (2012-15); FLAS Fellow, KASC (Hausa), Baumgartel Peace &

Justice Award; Fulbright to Niger, Hall Center Summer Fellow, 2011

Courtney Miller* (PhD 2012) Fieldwork in Rwanda, 2011, Development Trainer, Church of the

Nazarene

Emmanuel Birdling* (PhD 2013) Archival Research in Oxford and Fieldwork in Nigeria, 2011-12;

Visiting Assistant Professor, McPherson College, McPherson, KS (2015-17)

John Oakes* (PhD 2014) FLAS Fellow, KASC (Hausa, Afrikaans), Fieldwork in South Africa,

2011, Novelist, 2014-

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Almokhtar Attwairi* (PhD 2015) Fieldwork in Tripoli, Libya, Summer 2012, Professor and Chair,

Geography Department, Zawia University, Libya, 2015-

Nouri Elfarnouk* (PhD 2015) Fieldwork in Tripoli, Libya, Summer 2012; urban planning professor,

Libya, 2015-

Megan Holroyd* (PhD 2017) FLAS Fellow, KASC (KiSwahili), Oswald Fellowship to Tanzania

Jane Goodall Institute Fellowship to Tanzania, 2009-10.

*Co-Chair of the Committee after my departure from Kansas, with Steve Egbert (Attwairi, Elfarnouk and

Holroyd), Chris Brown (Hungerford, Miller and Oakes) and So-Min Cheong (Birdling)

MA:

Craig Flowers (MA 1997) Special Studies, Instructor, USMA, West Point, 2003-7.

Craig Davis (MA 2000) Professor, Geography, Sacramento City College, 2000-.

Rachel Saifullah (MA 2003)

Sarah Smiley (MA 2003) PhD at KU in Geography, 2007

Angela Gray (MA 2003) PhD at KU in Geography, 2009

Julie Morris (MA 2004) PhD student at KU in Geography, 2015-

Drew Bednasek (MA 2005) PhD at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, 2011

Edmond Mara (MA 2005) International Studies

Octave Mugabowineza (MA 2005) International Studies

Ray Agyemang (MA 2006) International Studies

Amy Potter (MA 2006) PhD at Louisiana State University, 2012; Assistant Professor, Armstrong

Atlantic University, GA, 2013- Ryan Lash (MA 2007) Cartographer, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA (2007-09)

Hilary Hungerford (MA 2007) Outstanding Thesis Award 2007; PhD at KU 2012

Victoria Downey (MA 2007) Professor, Anoka-Ramsey Community College, MN (2011-)

Karen Wetugi (MA 2007) International Studies

Levi Gahman (MA 2008) PhD in Geography, University of British Columbia, 2014; Assistant

Professor, University of the West Indies, Trinidad (2015-)

Abdirahman Gutale (MA 2008) International Studies FLAS Fellow, KASC, Arabic

Luke Struckman (MA 2009) FLAS Fellow, KASC, Arabic; PhD in Geography, Carleton (ONT) 2016

Emmanuel Birdling (MA 2009) International Studies PhD in Geography, KU 2013

Jamie Shinn (MA 2010) FLAS Fellow, KASC, KiSwahili, PhD in Geography, Penn State,

2015, Fulbright to Botswana, 2012-13, Asst Prof, Geography, Texas A&M

University (2015-16), West Virginia University (2016-)

Dylan Bassett (MA 2010) International Studies FLAS Fellow, KASC, Wolof

Courtney Roach Public Policy MA Program, Trinity College

Other Graduate Committee Service

External Member, PhD Dissertation Committees (8): Grete Benjaminsen (Norwegian University of

Life Sciences, 2018 – “Opponent”); S.A. Roux (Geography, University of Cape Town, 2018), Orly Bass

(Geography, University of Cape Town, 2006), Noah Hysler-Rubin (Urban Planning, Hebrew University

of Jerusalem, 2007), Erin Dean (Anthropology, University of Arizona, 2007), Mary Lawhon*

(Geography, Clark University, 2011), Warren Smit, University of Cape Town (2015), Cathy Oelofse

Sutherland (Geography, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2016).

KU PhD Dissertation Committees, 1995-2018 (40): Geography: John Bauer, Maggie Book, Cristin

Burke, Scott Campbell, David Cochran, David Fox, Aaron Gilbreath*, Andrew Hilburn, Mark Hummer,

Matthew Koeppe, Soren Larsen, Iwake Masialeti*, Blake Mayberry, Julie Morris* (ABD 2018), Michael

Noll, Brent Piepergerdes, Chris Post, Heather Putnam, Lisa Rausch, RJ Rowley, Steven Schnell, Langdon

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Smith, Derek Smith, Henry Way. Other Fields: Ken Aikins (Political Science), Heather Aldersey

(African Disability Studies), Cathy Collins (Ecology and Evolutionary Biology), Paula Console-Soican

(English), Dustin Crowley (English), Pelle Denabo (Philosophy), Melissa Filippi-Franz (Anthropology),

Ryan Gibb* (Political Science), Peter Gitau (Higher Education Administration), Massissou Hathoura

(Higher Education Administration), Stan Moore (Anthropology), Mona Mwakalinga (Film), John

Ringquist (History), Hadi Ali Shateh (Architecture), Michael Stigman (English), Mary Sundal

(Anthropology).

MA Thesis Committees at KU (21): Geography: Nate Brinson*, Tim Brock, Cristin Burke, Jennifer

Claybrook, Ben Coles, Stephanie Day*, Audrey Fusco, Lucius Hallett*, Tom Pratt*, Heather Putnam,

Nicole Reiz, Carleen Roberts, Bjorn Sletto*, John Teeple*, Jason Woods, Shawna Wright. Other Fields:

Roy Dietzmann (International Studies), Megan Holroyd* (International Studies), Abdulrahman Idrissa*

(Political Science), Denzyl Janneker (Journalism), Danielle Monty-Mara* (International Studies).

External MA Thesis Committee at McGill University, 2018-2019: Geography: Joanna Ondrzek-Roy.

(* Substantial advisory role for this student)

Post-Doctoral Fellowship Supervision At the University of Kansas: Hassan Sachedina, PhD, University of Oxford (Geography), 2008-09

At Trinity College: Mary Lawhon, PhD, Clark University, Urban Studies Foundation Fellow, 2014; Emily

Cummins, PhD, Northeastern University, CUGS Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2016-18 (co-supervisor with

Xiangming Chen); Emily Yen, PhD, UCLA, Kelter Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2018- (co-supervisor with

Xiangming Chen)

Honors Undergraduate Thesis Supervision Jeremy Lind, KU Environmental Studies, 1998 (MA SOAS 1999, PhD, King’s College London, 2006,

Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex (UK))

Tom Buller, Morgan Browning and Rachel Saifullah, KU Geography, 1999

Anton Menning, KU Geography, 2003 (MA, School of Journalism)

Justin Schmalberg, KU AAAS, 2004 (DVM, University of Wisconsin Veterinary School)

Ryan Good and Zachary Hucheson, KU Geography, 2006

Nate Blum, KU Geography, 2007

Sarah Madden and Raha Greenham, KU AAAS, 2008

Julia Guard, KU Geography, 2011 (National Geographic Intern, 2011)

Jessica Brooks, KU Environmental Studies, 2012 (w/ Chris Brown; Yale MA in Envir Std; PhD student,

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Maggie de Chaumont Quitry, Trinity, International Studies, 2013

Alexie Kozol, Trinity, International Relations, 2014

John Ambler, Malcolm Lloyd, Reshoketswe Mapokgole and Madeleine Shukurani, Trinity, International

Studies (Africa), 2014

Avery Dwyer, Trinity, International Studies (Global Studies), 2014

Alex Gray and Shaun McGann, Trinity, Urban Studies, 2014

Amanda Gurren, Chloe Shiras, Salima Etoka and George Denkey, Trinity, Urban Studies, 2015

Katherine Gagen, Simona Fried, and Abigail Siebert, Trinity, Urban Studies, 2016

Alex Perez, Maggie Brown, Joy Kim, Jennifer Tran, Austen Peterson, and Caroline Feeney, Urban

Studies, 2017; Chinmay Rayarikar, International Studies and Urban Studies, 2017

Eun-Sol Lee, Eavan Flanagan, and Katherine Kelter, Urban Studies, 2018

Languages I am fluent in Kiswahili. I have minimal knowledge of French, German, and Chinyanja.

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References

❑ Thomas Klak, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of New England, Biddeford,

ME, email: tklak@une.edu.

❑ Martin Murray, Professor, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of

Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, email: murraymj@umich.edu

❑ Jennifer Robinson, Professor of Geography, University College London, email:

Jennifer.robinson@ucl.ac.uk.