CURRICULUM VITAE

Eric P. Perramond, Geographer

Assistant Professor of Southwest Studies & Environmental Science

Hulbert Center, #204

Colorado College

14 E Cache La Poudre

Colorado Springs, CO 80903

Phone: (719) 389 6241(office)

 

Education

 

PhD 1999        The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Geography

MA 1994         Louisiana State University, Geography.

BA 1992          Mary Washington College (VA), Geography.

 

Positions and Teaching Experience

 

2005-               Colorado College: Assistant Professor of Southwest Studies & Environmental Science

1999-2005       Stetson University: Assistant Professor of Geography & Environmental Science.  Environmental Science Coordinator, 2000-2005.

 

Refereed Publications

 

Submitted. “Localism as Nationalism in the Eastern Pyrenees” in Political Ecology of the Pyrenees: State, history, and landscape, eds. Ismael Vaccaro and Oriol Beltran. (University of Washington Press).

 

Forthcoming. “The Rise, Fall and Reconfiguration of the Mexican Ejido”, a contributed article, special issue on Land Reform in the Era of Neo-liberalism: Case Studies from the Global South (eds. McCusker and Fraser), for a 2008 Geographical Review.

 

2007. “Localismo Como Nacionalismo en los Pirineos Orientales” in Ecologia Politica de los Pirineos: Estado, historia y paisaje, eds. I. Vaccaro and O. Beltran, pp. 189-205. Tremp (ESP): Garsineu Edicions.

 

2007. Tactics and strategies in political ecology research. Area 39(4): 499-507.

 

2007. Lesson, Outreach, and Research: Three Models of Undergraduate GIS Research at a Liberal Arts College. Co-author with Chris Jackson* and Wade Roberts **. Special issue of Council on Undergraduate Research Quarterly 27(3): 113-18.

 

2005. Melting the Kachinas: Agricultural Hegemony and Indigenous Incorporation at Zuni Pueblo in the Modern Era. Journal of Political Ecology 12: 51-67.

 

2005. The Politics of Ecology: Wild Chili Collection in Sonora, Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography 4(1): 59-95.

 

2004. Desert Traffic: The Drug Corridor in Northwest Mexico. In  Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes, eds. M.K. Steinberg , J. Hobbs and K. Mathewson, pp. 209-17. New York: Oxford University Press.          

 

2002. Grazing the Periphery: The Political Ecology of Private Ranchers in Sonora, Mexico.  In Cultural and Physical Expositions: Geographic Studies in the Southern United States and Latin America, eds. P.H. Hudson and M.K. Steinberg, pp. 51-7. Baton Rouge, LA: Geoscience Publications.

 

2002. Sustaining a Growing Population on an Increasingly Fragile Environment. Co-author (Doolittle, Sluyter, Perramond, Lambert and Crossley) in Latin America in the 21st Century: Challenges and Solutions, ed. G. Knapp, pp. 45-75. Austin: University of Texas Press. 

 

2001. La Ganadería Sonorense y los Cambios Ecológicos: Una propuesta. In Proceedings of the International Conference on the Environmental History of Livestock in the New World, ed. L. Hernández, pp. 108-113.  Xalapa, Mexico: Instituto de Ecología, A.C.

 

2001. Oral History and Partial Truths in Mexico.  Geographical Review 91: 151-7.

 

2000. A Preliminary Analysis of Soil Erosion and Buffelgrass in Sonora, Mexico. Yearbook, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers 26: 131-138.

 

1996. Hot Cows and Green Pastures in the Rio Sonora Country, Mexico. Geographical Review 86(3): 462-4.

 

1995. Zuni Farming and the U.S. Government: The Politics of Biological Diversity. Agriculture and human values 14:2-18. Co-author with Cleveland, Bowannie, Eriacho, and Laahty.

 

* CC alum

** CC faculty

Work in bold: since arriving at CC.

 

Other Publications

 

“Elisée Reclus in Nueva Granada: The Confines of Utopian Anarchism,” a book chapter for the volume Imminent Pasts: Anarchism in Latin American History, ed. Geoffroy de Laforcade. Press TBA.

 

Forthcoming. Borders and Borderlands: Overview. In the Encyclopedia of the Modern World, ed. Erick Langer. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

2003.  In the Footsteps of Sauer, Brand, Hewes and West: Field Trip Guide to the Rio Sonora Valley [Mexico]. W.E. Doolittle and E.P. Perramond, compilers, for the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 2003, in Tucson, AZ. 

 

 

Book Manuscripts in Progress/Submitted:

 

  1.  “Private Revolutions,” book manuscript for the University of Arizona Press, under contract and revision (June 2007).
  2. Translator, co-editor of Elisee Reclus’ “Voyage a la Sierra Nevada de Sainte-Marthe” (1861), with K. Mathewson. MS to be submitted to the University of Texas Press.
  3. Book Proposal, People and the Environment: An Introduction to Nature-Society Geography, a textbook for Blackwell Publishing. (Third author with Bill Moseley, Macalester and Paul Laris, CSU-Long Beach).

 

Book reviews:

 

Forthcoming. Landscapes of Power and Identity (Duke University Press, 2005) by Cynthia Radding. On H-Net Historical Geography (URL: tba)

 

2006. Pueblo Indian Agriculture (University of New Mexico Press, 2005) by James Vlasich. In Historical Geography 34: 229-231.

 

2006 A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press, 2005) by David Harvey. In Professional Geographer 58 (3): 356-7.

 

2005. Downsizing the State: Privatization and the Limits of Neoliberal Reform in Mexico (The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004) by Dag MacLeod. In Latin American Politics and Society 47: 169-73.

 

2005. Ranching, Endangered Species and Urbanization in the Southwest (University of Arizona Press, 2002) by Nathan Sayre. In Political Geography 24(3): 391-3.

 

2004. Native Peoples of the Southwest: Negotiating Land, Water, and Ethnicities (Greenwood Publishing Co., 2001) ed. Laurie Weinstein. In Historical Geography 32: 194-96.

 

2004. Landscape, Nature and the Body Politic (University of Wisconsin Press, 2002) by Kenneth R. Olwig. In Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(2):437-39.

 

2002.  La Gran Línea: Mapping the United States-Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857 (University of Texas Press, 2001) by Paula Rebert. In Journal of Latin American Geography 1(1): 84-5.

 

2000. Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest & Environs of Northwest Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 1998) edited by Paul Martin, David Yetman, Mark Fishbein, Phil Jenkins, Thomas Van Devender, and Rebecca Wilson. In Journal of Ethnobiology 20 (1): 72-3.

 

1997. Sonora: An Intimate Geography (University of New Mexico Press, 1996) by David Yetman in the Journal of Geography 96(1):45.

 

1996. Essays on the Changing Images of the Southwest (University of Texas A&M Press, 1994) edited by Richard Francaviglia and David Narrett in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers 86(3):596-7.

 

1996. Sharing the Desert: The Tohono O'Oodham in history (University of Utah Press, 1994) by Winston Erickson in the Journal of Historical Geography.

 

1994. The Hispano Homeland (University of Oklahoma Press, 1992) by Richard Nostrand in the Journal of Geography 93(6):292-3.

 

1993. The People: Indians of the American Southwest by Stephen Trimble in the Cultural Ecology Newsletter 24:5-6.

 

1993. Gardens of Prehistory (The University of Alabama Press, 1992) edited by Thomas Killion in the Cultural Ecology Newsletter 22:6-7.

 

Research Interests

Political Ecology & Natural Resources

Latin America, U.S. Southwest, Mediterranean

Environmental Geography

Environment and Development

Field & Research Techniques

GIS, community research & pedagogy

 

Research Grants

 

Colorado College

 

2007-08: Jackson Fellowship funding for field work on water rights in New Mexico (Summer 2007).

2007: Faculty-Student Collaborative Research Grant for student research on water adjudication and land easements in New Mexico. $2500 to Mary (Molly) Dilg, June-August, 2007.

2006-07: Mrachek Fellowship for work on book manuscript, Desert Meadows. (Summer 2006). 

2006 Social Science Executive Committee, funds for research in the libraries of the University of Texas at Austin (summer 2006) and for travel to the American Society for Environmental History meetings in St. Paul, MN (March-April, 2006). 

 

Stetson University

2003 Summer Research Fund, for "Pyrenean Depopulation and the Environmental Degradation of Rural Landscapes." Project began in France/Spain during summer of 2003.

2000 Summer Research Fund, for “Institutions and Environmental Change: Privatizing Ejidos in the region of Guanajuato, Mexico.”  Project began 5/00.

 

During graduate education:

The Historical Geography of Cattle Ranching in Sonora, Mexico project funded by the National Security Education Program for dissertation research, August 1997 - December 1997.

 

IIE J. William Fulbright Award for dissertation research in Sonora, Mexico, September 1996 -July 1997.

 

C.B. Smith Dissertation Enhancement Research Grant - awarded by the Mexican Center of the Institute of Latin American Studies for travel to Mexico City, Summer 1996.

 

Tinker Foundation Fieldwork Research Grant awarded for preliminary research on changes in Sonoran agriculture and ranching, summer 1995.

 

Seed grant from the Center for Francophone Studies of Louisiana State University for translation of Elisée Reclus' account of post colonial Colombia. Co-PI with Dr. Kent Mathewson of the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University, summer 1994.

 

Robert C. West Field Research Grant awarded by the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University for thesis research at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, summer 1993.

 

Teaching & Course Enhancement Grants

 

Stetson University Hand Grant for course improvement and professional development for “GIS Integration & Outreach in the Natural Sciences.” Project period: 6/01-8/01/2004.

 

Stetson University Hollis Mentored Field Experience in Central Mexico, from Latin American Studies committee, summer 2002 travel with 5 students. *3 weeks of student group travel.

 

Stetson University Hand Grant for course improvement and enhancement fund for development of ESS101 (Introduction to Environmental Science) and ESS201 (Environmental Field Methods). Project period: 6/01 – 8/01/2001

 

Teaching Interests & Courses Offered

Colorado College

2007-08

Block 2: SW102 Place, Space and the Southwest

Block 3: EV155 Introductory Earth Systems Science

Block 4: EV499 Senior Theses

Block 6: SW272 Nature, Region and Society in the Southwest (GIS)

Block 7: EV421 Synthesis: Global Climate Change Policy (w/Price-Smith)

 

2006-07

Block 1: Human Ecologies of the Southwest

Block 3: Introductory Earth Systems Science

Block 5: Geographical Inquiry in the Southwest (GIS + field methods)

Block 6: Intro Earth Systems Science (repeat)

Block 7: Jackson Fellow block (independent research on water rights, GIS in New Mexico, 3 students)

Block 8: Senior Research (SW + EV)

 

2005-06

Block 1 – AN208/EV260/SW200: Human Ecologies of the Southwest.

Block 3 – EV155: Introductory Earth Systems Science

Block 4 – HY200/SW250: History and Geography of the Colorado River (w/Hyde)

Block 5 – SW272: Geographic Inquiry of the Southwest

Block 8 – EV311: Water (w/Fricke)

 

Past Courses (8/99 – 5/04):

  • Geography 102: The Natural Environment (Introduction to Physical Geography)
  • Geography 312: Geographic Information Science
  • Geography 313: Environmental Conservation
  • Geography 314C: Latin America in the Modern World
  • Geography 315: Environment & Development
  • Geography 405: Biogeography
  • Geography 497: Senior Research Proposal
  • Geography 498: Senior Research Project
  • Biology 485: Native Landscape Design (co-taught)
  • Environmental Science 101: Introduction to Environmental Science (4 cr, with lab)
  • Environmental Science 201: Environmental Field Methods
  • Environmental Science 370: Environmental Science Internship
  • Geography396/History 390: Empire, Nation and Identity in Geo-historical Perspective (3cr/co-teaching) 
  • Latin American Studies 103-104: Mentored Field Experience

 

Research Presentations

 

2008. Co-author with Molly Dilg (CC student), “Adjudication before neo-liberalism: Water rights in New Mexico.” Paper to be presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, April 15-19, 2008. Boston, MA. Chair & Organizer of session.

 

2008. “Adjudication before Neo-liberalism – Water in New Mexico” – Presentation to be delivered at the Colloquium of the CU-Boulder Department of Geography, Feb 1.

 

2007. Co-author with Molly Dilg (CC student), “Liquid Relations: Water Rights in New Mexico under Adjudication. Poster presentation for the Great Plains/Rocky Mountains divisional meetings of the AAG, September 29th, 2007. Denver, CO

 

2007. “Private Revolutions: Political Ecologies of Cattle Ranching in northern Mexico.” Presentation at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN – September 13, 2007. ACM-funded visit between geographers.

 

2007. “PROCEDE at 15 years: The Geography of Ejido Privatization in Mexico.” Paper presented in the special session Mexico's Reforms at 15: Privatization, Sustainability and Implications for the Future of the Ejido at the Latin American Studies Association meetings in Montreal, Canada, September 6-8, 2007.

 

2007. Chair & Organizer, panel session on Cattle and Capitalism in the Age of Neo-liberalism at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21.

 

2007. “The Devil’s Wire and Neo-liberal Enclosure: Material and Conceptual Privatization in Sonora, Mexico.” Paper presented in the session Cattle and Capitalism in the Age of Neo-liberalism at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA, April 17-21.

 

2006. “Depopulation, degradation and extensification in the Catalonian Pyrénées” Paper presented in the session Political Ecology of Pyrenean Landscapes, at the meetings of the American Society for Environmental History, St. Paul, MN, March 29-April 2, 2006.

 

2006. “Long waves of neo-liberalism and privatization in Mexico.” Paper presented in a special session on Land Reform and Agrarian Change: Experiences from the Global South at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 7-11.

 

2006. Chair, “Participatory mapping and indigenous peoples” at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 7-11, 2006.

 

2006. Panelist, “Environmental Politics and Public Lands” at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL, March 7-11, 2006.

 

2005. “The Rise and Fall of the Mexican Ejido.” Paper presented in the session Geografía Latinoamericana: Economía y sociedad at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Morelia, Mexico, October 27th.

 

2005. “Intermediate Ecological and Post-Structural theories for Political Ecology.” Paper to be presented in special session on Concepts and Theories in Cultural and Political Ecology, at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005. Co-organizer of sessions I and II, Chair of session II.

 

2005. Panelist, “Nature, Politics and Resources in the Arid Realm II” at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.

 

2005. Invited Discussant in session “Politics of Scale: Environment, Community and Justice” at the Annual Meetings of the Association of American Geographers, Denver, CO, April 5-9, 2005.

 

2004. “An Evaluation of Soil Nutrient Variability under Three Dominant Land Cover Types in Southwestern Florida” – Poster by Brenda Brooks-Solveson*, Bennington, and Perramond for the Southeast Divisional meetings of the AAG, Biloxi, MS, November 21-23rd, 2004. * BBS is a former student.

 

2004. “Geographic Contexts for Land Privatization in Mexico: Understanding the environment of the counter-Revolution.” Full-length paper prepared and presented in session “Geographical Perspectives On Change In Mexico” at The Latin American Studies Association meetings in Las Vegas, NV, October 7-9th, 2004. – Research presentation based on student research collaboration in Mexico (2002).

2004. “Human Impact & Ehnoecology of Chiltepín (Capsicum annuum var. aviculare) Collection in Sonora, Mexico.” Paper presented at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Antigua, Guatemala.  May 17-22nd.

2004. "Pyrenean Depopulation and Landscape Degradation in the 20th Century." Paper  presented at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers in special session “Political Ecologies of European Landscapes,” Chair & Organizer: EPP. Philadelphia, PA: March 17th.

2004  “Reclus’ Influence and Contributions to Geographic Theory.” Panel remarks presented at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers in special session “Anarchism and Geography: Past Issues and Contemporary Opportunities,” Organizer & Co-Chair: EPP with Mark Bonta (Delta State U.).  Philadelphia: PA: March 17th.

2004. “Historical materialism and material cultures.” Panel presentation at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers in special session “Roots & Retrospective” of the Cultural and Political Ecology Specialty Group. Philadelphia, PA. March 16th.

2004. “Agricultural Hegemony at Zuni Pueblo and Indigenous Incorporation.”  Paper presented at the Stetson University Faculty Research Forum, on 1.16.04.

2003. "Land Tenure and Environmental Change in Mexico: Examples from the State of Guanajuato.”  Presentation at the Center for The Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. May 23rd.

2003. “Florida Noir and Environmental Education.” Symposium of the Florida Teachers Council (Florida Humanities Council), roundtable with S.V. Date and Tim Dorsey.  April 25th, Holiday Inn, Deland, FL.

2003.  “Institutional Dimensions of Environmental Change in Mexico: Privatization, Ejidos, and soil erosion responses to land-cover changes.” Paper presented in session “Changing Influences on Mexican Human-Environment Relationships” at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers in New Orleans, LA, March 5th.

2003. “Rancher tactics and environmental strategy in the Rio Sonora of Mexico.” Paper presented in the Robert C. West session at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Tucson, AZ, January 5-7th.  *Organizer of sessions.

2002. "Neo-Liberal Landscapes of Agrarian Mexico: Cases from the state of Guanajuato." Paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Los Angeles, CA, March 21st.

2001. "NAFTA and the Tortoise: Privatization of the Mexican Commons in Guanajuato, Mexico."  Paper delivered at the meetings of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Benicassim, Spain, June 14th.

2001. "Digging Up The Dirt: Fieldwork, Oral History, and Partial Truths." Paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in New York, NY, Feb 27-March 3. Special Geographical Review session on "Doing Fieldwork."

 

2000. "Ecology and Ideology: Private Landscapes of Northern Mexico."  Paper to be delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Pittsburgh, PA, date to be announced.  Session: "Mixed landscapes, Mixed methods II."

 

2000.  “Elisée Reclus and Post-Colonial Colombia.”  Paper delivered at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers meeting in Austin, TX, Jan. 6-8. * Chair of session.

 

1999. "Desert Traffic: The Drug Corridor in Northwest Mexico." Paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Honolulu, HI, on April 4th.

 

1998. “Grazing the Periphery: The Political Ecology of Private Ranchers in Sonora, Mexico.” Paper delivered at the Southwestern Division of the Association of American Geographers meeting, in Baton Rouge, LA, October 30.

 

1998. "Buffelgrass, Conservation, and Soil Erosion in Sonora, Mexico." Paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Boston, Massachusetts, on March 27.

 

1997. "Greener Pastures? Trends in the Cattle Industry of Sonora, Mexico." Presentation delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Forth Worth, Texas, on April 3.

 

1996. "Cambios Ecológicos en Sonora durante la Colonia." Paper delivered at the International Conference on the Environmental History of Livestock in the New World, Durango, Mexico, on October 18.

 

1996. "Geographical Problems in the Historiography of Sonoran Cattle Ranching." Presentation delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Charlotte, North Carolina, on April 11.

 

1996. Panel discussant for "Biological Conservation in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands: Science and Policy" organized by the University of Texas Chapter of the Society for Conservation Biology, in Austin, Texas, on April 26.

 

1996. "Problemas Historiográficos en la Geografía de la Ganadería Sonorense." Paper delivered at the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on January 4.

 

1995. "Colonial Landscapes of Cultivation at Zuni Pueblo." Paper presented at the Southwest Association of American Geographers, Las Cruces, New Mexico, on October 6.

 

1995. "A Political Ecology of the Zuni Indian Reservation: 1846-1993." paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Chicago, Illinois, on March 19.

 

1993. "Zuni agriculture in the 20th century." Paper delivered at the Southwest Association of American Geographers in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on October 22.

 

1993. "Beyond the Garden Thing: Zuni agriculture in the twentieth century." Paper presented in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, on October 8.

 

1993. "Ethnicity and Cultural Ecology in Northern New Mexico." Paper delivered at the annual conference of the Association of American Geographers in Atlanta, Georgia, on April 7.

 

1993. "Land Ethics in Northern New Mexico." Paper delivered at the Southwest Social Sciences Association conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 18.

 

Service

 

Service to Colorado College

Information Technology Advisory Board, 2006-07

GIS Committee, 2005-

GIS Technical Director search committee member (July-August, 2005)
Environmental Science Program Committee & Core faculty sub-committee

            EV Candidate Search Committee, Fall 2006

            EV Steering Committee for evaluation of Miro Kummel, 2007-

Southwest Studies Faculty Advisory Committee, 2005-

Latin American Studies ad hoc committee, 2005 -

Study Abroad Faculty Advisor, Augsburg College program in Central America, 2007-

FYE Committee, 2007-08

Math Search Committee, 2007-08

 

Service Presentations (CC)

  1. Faculty Luncheon, December 18th, 2006: “Political Ecology of Ranching in Mexico.”
  2. EV Seminar Presentation, February 23, 2006: “Grazing, Ranching and Environmental Complexity.”
  3. Methods Workshop, Political Science, February 22nd, 2007: GIS and social science research, with Andrew Price-Smith.
  4. Aficionados Luncheon, Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007: “The Devil’s Wire: The Death of the Open Range in Mexico.”

 

Service to Stetson University:

2004 – 05: Faculty Senate, A&S at-large member.

2001 – 05: Environmental Science Program Chair

2001 – 05: Discovery Program Committee Member (1st Year Students)

1999 - 05: Committee member of:

·        Environmental Science

·        Latin American Studies

·        Environmental Responsibility Committee

1999 - 05:

Webmaster, Geography & Environmental Science, Stetson University.

1999 - 05: Gamma Theta Upsilon (geography honor society) Faculty Sponsor, Stetson University.

 

Service to the discipline:

  • “Human Environments, Past and Present,” Visiting Lecture, Department of Geography, Macalester College, St Paul, MN, on September 13, 2007 as part of the Visiting Scholars Initiative of the ACM FaCE Project.
  • Member, Editorial Board, ACME - An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2007-2010. Located @ http://www.acme-journal.org.
  • Conference Organizer, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, hosted at Colorado College, May 31-June 3, 2007.
  • Vice-Chair, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, 2006-2008.
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Latin American Geography, 2004-06
  • Editor and Host, Cultural & Political Ecology Newsletter of the AAG, 2004-05

      http://www.stetson.edu/artsci/cape/

  • Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Board Member, 2001-04. (Publications Committee, CLAG; Membership Committee, CLAG).
  • Journal Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of Latin American Geography (2002-03-04), Historical Geography, 2004 special issue on Historical Political Ecology (Geoscience Publications), World Development (2004), Agriculture, Ecosystems, and Environment (2004); The Southwestern Geographer (2004); Journal of Historical Geography (2004); Journal of Rural Studies (2005); Journal of Geography (2005, 2006); Human Ecology (2005), The Geographical Journal (2006), Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (2007), ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies (2007-09).
  • Book Manuscript Reviews: University of Texas Press (2002), University of Arizona Press (2004); Pennsylvania State University Press (2005).

 

 

 

 

Professional Development & Awards

·       ACM FaCE Visiting Scholars Initiative – Two visits by EPP to Macalester College and Grinnell College, and two geographers making return visits to Colorado College. 2007-2009 – approved 5.25.07

·       Southwest Studies Regional Research Initiative Faculty Development Institute, Colorado College, August 11-13, 2005.

·       Applied for NSF Workshop, Summer 2005, Integrating GIS into Watershed Analysis, 7.29-8.2.2005 at SUNY-Brockport. Declined 5/2005.

·       Geography Faculty Development Alliance, professional workshop, June 19-26, 2004 held at the Department of Geography, University of Colorado-Boulder.

·       May-June 2003 - Summer Fellow, Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and Environmental Change (Indiana University-Bloomington).  CIPEC is a professional development institute on GIS, remote sensing and survey/questionnaire integration for human dimensions of global change research.

·       1998-99 Bruton Fellow - Awarded by the Office of Graduate Studies, The University of Texas at Austin.

·       1998 2nd place in student paper competition – Southwestern Division of the AAG meetings in Baton Rouge, LA

·       1996 2nd place in student paper competition - Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers conference, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

·       1993 3rd place in student paper competition - Southwest Social Sciences Association conference, New Orleans, Louisiana.

·       1992 H. Thompson Straw Award for Academic Excellence - Department of Geography, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, Virginia.

 

Memberships in Professional Organizations

American Geographical Society
Association of American Geographers

American Society for Environmental History
Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (Vice-Chair, 2007-09)

Latin American Studies Association

Quivira Coalition

 

Fieldwork

·       Colorado/New Mexico, 7/2005, 9/2005, 8/2006, 4/2007 – Initial research on agrarian landscapes, water and landscape transformation along the Upper/Middle Rio Grande watershed.

  • Sonora, Mexico 7/02, 1/03– CLAG Board conference-related planning activities and follow-up research.
  • Pyrenees, summers 2000, 2003; October 2006 – Initial research (funded by SU summer research grant) on Pyrenean depopulation in the 20th century and effects on land-use/land-cover changes (France/Spain).
  • Guanajuato - Hollis Mentored Field Experience, 5/02-6/02, Central Mexico.
  • Guanajuato, Mexico 5/00 – 7/00 (funded project)
  • Sonora, Mexico 6/95-7/95 and 9/96-11/97 (Dissertation field research)

 

Languages

French: Bilingual (Dual citizenship)

Spanish: Advanced (oral/reading; written form: good); ACTFL-certified as "Advanced."

 

Technical Skills
(ESRI) ArcGIS 9.1, Macromedia FreeHand, SPSS, MS FrontPage.

 

Revised 10.23.07