Contributor Biographies
- Contributor Biographies
Clark Akatiff was born in San Francisco in 1937. He attended San Jose State College (1955–60), where he studied art, history, and philosophy, and ultimately was recruited into geography by Professor Michael McIntyre. As a graduate student he attended UCLA, where he completed a master’s thesis on the relevance of Ellsworth Huntington. An ABD, his dissertation on the San Joaquin Valley was never completed. At UCLA he studied under Joseph E. Spencer, Howard Nelson, and Norman Thrower. After a brief academic career (1966–72), he worked at various jobs, such as archeological mitigation and construction laborer. He has lived in Palo Alto, California, since 1971; and since 1983 has worked for the City of Palo Alto in the field of Waste Management. He retired from full-time work as supervisor of the Landfill in 2003, at which time he returned to geography.
Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities in the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oklahoma. There, he directs the Experimental Geography Studio. He is author of Enchanting the Desert: A Pattern Language for the Production of Space (Stanford University Press 2016) and A Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise (University of California Press 2016).
Jennifer M. Bernstein is a Ph.D. candidate in geography at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. She received an M.A. in geography at UC Santa Barbara and an M.S. in science education at UM Bozeman. Formerly she was the senior data analyst at American Environics, an opinion research and political strategy firm. She teaches at Santa Barbara City College and Hawai‘i Pacific University. Her research interests include environmental attitudes and values, American environmentalism, the environmental history of the U.S. West, and online and interdisciplinary education.
Ron Davidson is a cultural geographer at California State University, Northridge. This summer he witnessed the release of “Pokemon Go” in Tokyo, Japan, on a Sunday, in a freak spell of mild and dry weather in what [End Page 11] was otherwise a savage if late-blooming rainy season, from the vantage point of downtown’s most popular park, Ueno Koen. He hopes that somebody made a fortune.
Martha Henderson is a member of the faculty at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. She recently served the college as director of the Graduate Program on the Environment and provided support for students earning a master’s in Environmental Studies. Now a member of the undergraduate faculty, Martha teaches introductory geography courses and upper-division regional courses, including multi-quarter classes on Polar Regions and the Middle East. Her research areas include public lands and cultural landscapes. She is a past president of APCG.
Kristine Hunt is a master’s candidate in Historical Resources Management in the Department of History at Idaho State University. Her work focuses on architectural history, economic class, the Arts and Crafts Movement, print culture, and material culture, and using cartography to illuminate these subjects. She has also been a freelance editor of scholarly nonfiction in the humanities and social sciences for the past 15 years.
Brenda Kayzar is an urban social justice geographer affiliated with the University of Minnesota. Her main field of interest is inequality in the built landscape, which she studies through the lens of housing provision and revitalization policy and practice.
William A. Koelsch is Emeritus Professor, Clark University, He holds an M.A. in geography from Clark and a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago. He taught in the Graduate School of Geography, the Department of History, and the Program in Ancient Civilization at Clark for thirty-one years before retiring to Southern California in 1998. Most of his research combines his twin interests: the history of geography and the history of higher education.
Chris Lukinbeal holds a B.S., M.A., and Ph.D. in geography. He is an associate professor and the director of Geographic Information Systems Technology programs in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. He has published books on The Geography of Cinema...
