Contributor Biographies
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Jeff Baldwin serves as an associate professor of geography and chair of the newly formed Department of Geography, Environment, and Planning at Sonoma State University. His research focuses upon the implications of nonhuman agency for environmental ethics and for land management in the face of changing climates.
Elisa Bignante is senior lecturer in Political and Economic Geography at the Department of Culture, Politics and Society, University of Torino, Italy. She is keenly interested in the analysis of local development processes, international aid policies, Indigenous knowledges, and natural resources management. She has extensive experience in using participatory visual research methods and ethnographic research for community engagement in the definition of community-owned solutions in the Global South.
Bess Bookout is an undergraduate student at Principia College who will graduate in May 2018 with a BS in biology with a focus in ecology. Her current research focuses on tallgrass prairie ecosystems, including assessing relative success of prairie restorations and studying habitat selection of small mammals in prairie plantings. She enjoys learning about all ecosystems but has focused on grassland and wetland ecology, where dendrochronology has been helpful in assessing the encroachment of woody species on grassland areas.
Soheil Boroushaki is an associate professor in geography at California State University, Northridge. His specialties include Web-based mapping and GIS, quantitative methods, multicriteria decision analysis, and location theory and analysis.
Stephen F. Cunha a professor of Geography at Humboldt State University. He holds BS and BA degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MA/PhD in geography from the University of California, Davis. He previously spent ten seasons as a park ranger in Yosemite and Alaska, and ten years on the faculty at Cosumnes River College. Consulting assignments include the World [End Page 14] Bank, Asian Development Bank, the United State Agency for International Development, National Geographic Society, and the World Conservation Union.
Suzanne Dallman is an associate professor of Geography and Environmental Science & Policy at California State University, Long Beach. She teaches a variety of courses related to environmental management, water resources, and watershed science. Her research interests are broadly focused on nature-society relations and the impacts of human development and policy on natural resources. Her recent research is focused on rainwater harvesting and other local water supply sources that may reduce Southern California’s dependence on imported water, as well as drought response in California and Australia.
Ron Davidson is a cultural geographer with a yen for well-written regional geographies, if anybody’s selling.
Christine Elowitt is a graduate student in geography at California State University, Northridge. Her research interests include detecting changes in arctic vegetation due to climate change, using remote-sensing satellite data. She has a BA from Georgetown University and an MBA from California Lutheran University. She currently works in Geographic Information Systems for Burbank Water and Power.
Aquila Flower is an assistant professor of geography at Western Washington University, where she teaches physical geography and GIScience courses. She received a PhD in geography from the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on understanding the complex, interactive effects of climate variability, human land-use patterns, and natural disturbances on forest ecosystems. She uses dendrochronological, ecological, statistical, and geospatial methods to study forest dynamics over multiple spatial and temporal scales in western North America.
Steven M. Graves holds degrees in political science (The Ohio State University), education (Ohio University), and geography (Miami University, University of Illinois). Recently, he has been teaching economic, cultural, and methods courses in the Geography Department at California State University, Northridge. His research interests are eclectic but have been loosely focused around questions of social justice and popular culture. Most of his publications have addressed the spatial dynamics of short-term, high-cost lenders, but others have examined hip-hop, gentrification, crime, cultural landscapes, and pedagogy. [End Page 15]
Ben Hagedorn recently received a BA in geography from Western Washington University. He is in the process of applying to graduate programs, with the intent of using dendrochronology in his research. He currently works for Wilderness Awareness School as...
