Contributor Biographies
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Forrest Bowlick is a Ph.D. candidate at Texas A&M University. He graduated with his master's degree in geography from the University of Idaho, and his bachelor's degree in geography-GIS from the University of Northern Colorado. His dissertation work focuses on determining what constitutes expert knowledge and state-of-the-art instruction in CyberGIS. He currently resides in College Station, Texas, with his wife and three cats, teaching physical geography courses while finishing his dissertation.
Donna Ruiz y Costello is a master’s candidate in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences of Arizona State University. Her research interests are in the fields of ethnographic, geographic, and historic documentation of Mexican and Hispanic settlements in a major U.S. southwestern city. The specific focus of her master’s project is the cultural production and consumption of the varied religious imagery found in Mexican yerberías and botánicas in the greater Phoenix area of Arizona.
Ron Davidson is a cultural geographer at CSUN, committed non-hobbyist, and failed vegetarian. He is undergoing his third mid-life crisis. He is currently damp as a shower sponge in rainy-season Tokyo, working on a paper about public space in Japan.
Olga Govdyak is at the tail end of her graduate studies in geography at California State University, Northridge. During this time, she has completed two life-altering internships—with Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission and the National Park Service. Her interest in lifestyle migration in Belize was manifested in a recent trip to Belize, where she pursued data collection for her thesis work on the Perceived Effects of Residential Tourism in Belize.
Edward L. Jackiewicz is a professor of geography at CSUN. His recent research interests explore the dynamics of lifestyle migration in Central America and the Caribbean. He is also the co-editor of Placing Latin America. [End Page 11]
Young-Il Kim is currently serving on the board of directors at Dong Busan University, Busan, Korea, and is vice president of the UN Association of Korea, where he is promoting steps to combat desertification in Northeastern Asia, particularly the Gobi Desert. He is also serving as the Honorary Consul General of Pakistan.
Scott Warren is a doctoral candidate in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning of Arizona State University. His research interests are in the American West, Latin America, and the Mexico-U.S. borderlands. Broadly, his dissertation explores the social and economic transformation of the Mexico-U.S. borderlands in the context of a “hardening” boundary line and increasing militarization.
Wan Yu is a doctoral candidate in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning of Arizona State University. Her research interests are in the fields of ethnic settlements, highly skilled migrants, international students, return migration, and Chinese American experiences. Specifically, her dissertation focuses on Chinese international students and highly skilled migrants in the U.S., as well as Chinese highly skilled returnees from the U.S. back to China. [End Page 12]
