Faculty
Karl Zimmerer
Karl is again serving as chair of the Department following his appointment as an advanced research fellow at Yale University while on sabbatical leave. His research fellowship was sponsored by Yale's Agrarian Studies Program in conjunction with the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, the Department of Anthropology, and the International Studies Program. Karl used the extraordinary Yale collections in order to complete library and archive research, in addition to field research trips to Peru and Bolivia, and made steady progress on various research articles and a couple book manuscripts while he was at Yale.
Toward the end of last year Karl published a pair of articles, "Globalization and multi-spatial trends in the coverage of protected-area conservation (1980-2000)" (in Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment, 2004) and "Cultural and political ecology: Placing households in human-environment studies---the cases of tropical forest transitions and agrobiodiversity chance" (in Progress in Human Geography, 2004). The Ambio article was co-authored with Ryan Galt, a Ph.D student in the Department and Margaret Buck, a Ph.D student in the Land Resources Program of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies on campus. Karl's new book, Globalization and the New Geographies of Environmental Conservation, is scheduled for publication release at the University of Chicago Press within the next few months.
While on research leave at Yale Karl gave a number of invited research seminar presentations, including on "Hybridity and the cultural and political ecology of biodiversity in agriculture" (Latin American Anthropology and Studies Center, Yale University); "Human-ecological dynamics of agrobiodiversity and conservation" (School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University); "From natural history to environmental science: Mapping landscape and nature in the Andes." (Colloquium of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University); ""Landscapes, local spatial dynamics, and human-environmental change in Andean peasant communities of Bolivia and southern Peru" (Department of Anthropology, Yale University); "Agricultural change dynamics and cultural use of seed size variation in Peru." (Seminar in Culture and Ecology, Columbia University); and "Environmental change, conservation, and agriculture under neoliberalism in Latin America" (Symposium on "Beyond Neoliberalism? Experiences, Responses, and New Directions in Latin America and the Caribbean." Program on Latin America and the Caribbean, Syracuse University).
Karl also continues to edit the Nature-Society section of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, where he works closely with Eric Carter (PhD '05), who has been appointed as Assistant Editor.
Yi-Fu Tuan
Yi-Fu Tuan writes: The big new venture for me was the trip to China (May 28-June 15), after an absence of 64 years, with A-Xing Zhu and his family. I spoke on "Time, Space, and Architecture" to an international conference on "Topophilia and Topophobia" on June 1; on "Humanistic Geography" to Beijing Normal University on June 4; on "A Problem in Human Geography" to the Institute of Geographical Research and Environmental Information System" on June 6; and on "Coming Home--After 64 Years" to fourteen- and fifteen-year olds at Nankai Middle School, Chongqing, on June 9. I give you these dry bones because they are expected in a longer story soon to be published on the department website. For the rest of the story, log onto my website, or, better yet, come and see me!
Yi-Fu Tuan publishes his current "Dear Colleague" letters on his personal website at http://www.geography.wisc.edu/~yifutuan/.
Lisa Naughton
Lisa Naughton recently received a 2005 Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship to study environmental governance in Ecuador's protected areas and a 2005 Fulbright-IIE, 8 month research and teaching grant for Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She is currently on sabbatical in Uganda.
Lisa Naughton's research on wolves in Wisconsin and human-wildlife conflicts has a new website. The "Living with Wolves" project ( http://www.geography.wisc.edu/livingwithwolves ) features a public opinion survey on wolves in Wisconsin and publications related to or published for the project. Naughton frequnetly is called on to lecture and present the latest research on wolves to a wide variety of government and private groups who are managing human-wildlife conflicts.
Jack Williams
Jack Williams and wife Sarah welcomed a new daughter Eliza on November 16. They send thanks to all for your well-wishes and offers of support.
Jamie Peck
Jamie Peck 's plans for the summer were altered dramatically following an unpleasant encounter with a drunk driver while on a bike ride in late May. After recovering from six broken bones and an almighty shock to the system, he is now back at work on a part-time basis and hopes to make a full recovery by the New Year. What he hopes will be his last paper on the temp industry, "Constructing markets for temporary labour: employment liberalisation and the internationalisation of the staffing industry," Global Networks 5(1) 3-26 (with N. Theodore and K. Ward), was published earlier in the year. He also published an extended theoretical paper on the relationship between geography and sociology, "Economic sociologies in space," Economic Geography 81(2) 129-176, which if nothing else holds the record for the longest article published in the 80 years of this journal! Jamie is now getting back to work on his long-term project on free-market think tanks and is currently working on a paper looking at conservative responses to Hurricane Katrina. He is also riding his bike again, though somewhat more gingerly than before.
Dan Doeppers
One of our Emeritus faculty, Dan Doeppers, called the department to announce the birth of his 3rd grandchild. Gradey Doeppers was born December 9th at 3:00 a.m and weighed 7.7 lbs. Mom and Dad are both doing well, and Dan is very proud of his new grandchild! Congratulations to the whole family!
