ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Agricultural Biotechnology Reconsidered: Western Narratives and African Alternatives. (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2005).

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“Risking Regulation, Regulating Risk: Lessons from the Trans-Atlantic Biotech Dispute.” Review of Policy Research.  Vol. 24, No. 4 (September, 2007).

“Contesting Privatization: NGOs and Farmers’ Rights in the African Model Law.”  Global Environmental Politics.  Vol. 7, No. 1 (February, 2007).

“Biodiversity, Ownership, and Indigenous Knowledge: Exploring Legal Frameworks for Community, Farmers and Intellectual Property Rights in Africa.”  Ecological Economics.  Vol. 53, No. 4 (June, 2005): 493-506.

“Feeding the Famine? American Food Aid and the GMO Debate in Southern Africa.” Food Policy. Vol. 29, No. 6 (December, 2004): 593-608.  

“Contested Ownership: TRIPs, CBD, and Implications for African Biodiversity.” Perspectives on Global Development and Technology. Vol. 1, No. 3-4 (December, 2002): 294-321.  

“Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Despair: Towards a Political Economy of the Seed Industry in Southern Africa.” Third World Quarterly. Vol. 22, No. 4 (August, 2001): 657-73.  

“Review of Scavengers and Solid Waste Management in Indonesia.” Journal of Third World Studies. (Co-authored with Dr. Robert Watson) April, 1997.

Working Papers & Book Chapters

“Local Governance in Post-Apartheid South Africa.”  (Review essay).  African Studies Review.  (March, 2007).

“From Impasse to Renaissance? Review of Historical Materialism's Symposium on Marxism and African Realities.”  ACAS Bulletin.  (August 2005).

“Biodiversity Conservation and Protection of Indigenous Knowledge: Analyzing the Emergence of a Legal Framework for Access to Biodiversity, Benefit Sharing, and Intellectual Property in Africa.” Center for Philosophy of Law (CPDR), Université catholique de Louvain. Working Paper. 2003.  

“Sustainability Impact Assessment: Policy Paper.” Trade, Societies and Sustainable Development (SUSTRA) Network Working Paper. (Co-authored with Dr. Tom Dedeurwaerdere). 2003.  

“Update on the OAU Model Legislation.” Africa-Europe Faith and Justice Network. (March, 2003). 

 “Biotechnology and Rural Development: Promise and Peril for Southern Africa.” Center for Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) Rural and Community Development Group Working Paper. 2002.  

“An Inquiry into the Causes of Urban Political Violence in Africa: Lagos and Johannesburg.” In Peter Gizewski, ed. Urban Flashpoints: Urban Political Violence in the Third World, Washington DC: Office of Transnational Issues, 2000.

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS & INVITED LECTURES

International Studies Association 48^th Annual Meeting.  “Biotechnology’s Uncertain Future?  Trans-Atlantic Debates over Risk, Regulation, and Property.”  (Chicago: February 2007). 

African Studies Association 49^th Annual Meeting.  “Negotiating Biopolicy in Zimbabwe: The Uses and Limits of Participatory Governance.”  (Oakland: November 2006).

International Studies Association 47^th Annual Meeting.  “Risking Regulation, Regulating Risk: Agricultural Biotechnology in International Trade.”  (San Diego: March 2006). 

African Studies Association 48^th Annual Meeting.  ““NGOs as Intermediary Organizations in the African Model Law.”  (Washington DC: November 2005). 

Western Regional Political Science Association Annual Meeting. “Biotechnology, Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture: Negotiating Policy Discourse in Zimbabwe.” (Oakland: March 2005).  

African Studies Association 47th Annual Meeting. “Feeding the Hungry While Starving the Farmer? US Food Aid and Agricultural Biotechnology in Southern Africa.” (New Orleans: November 2004).  

Society for Socialist Studies 2002 Annual Meetings. “Biotechnology in the Age of Monopoly Capitalism: Towards a Political Economy of the ‘Life Sciences’ Industry.” (Toronto: May 2002).  

Centre for Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) Rural and Community Development Working Group. “Biotechnology and Rural Development: Promise and Peril for Southern Africa.” Invited Lecture (Toronto: April 2002).  

International Studies Association 43rd Annual Convention. “Building Life? Political and Economic Foundations of Modern Biotechnology.” (New Orleans: March 2002).  

International Studies Association 43rd Annual Convention. “Comparative Advantage or Public Trust? Seed Exchange in Zimbabwe.” (New Orleans: March 2002).  

African Studies Association 44th Annual Convention. “TRIPs and CBD: Implications for African Biodiversity.” (Houston: November 2001).  

International Studies Association 42nd Annual Convention. Panel discussant, "Investment, Entrepreneurship, and Development in Comparative Perspective." (Chicago: February, 2001).

International Studies Association 42nd Annual Convention. "Seeds of Hope, Seeds of Despair: Globalization and Seed Production in Southern Africa." (Chicago: February, 2001).

 

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Federal Work Study Graduate Assistance Grant  for project entitled “Regulating Biotechnology: Southern Africa in a Global Context.” 2006-07.

HSU Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity Grant for project entitled “Risking Regulation, Regulating Risk: Agricultural Biotechnology and the GMO Debate in Northern California.” 2005-06.

President Alistair McCrone Promising Faculty Scholar Award. April, 2005.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS

SELECTED COMMUNITY & UNIVERSITY SERVICE (HSU ONLY)

Current Thesis Committee Service: Shannon Brundle, Gretchen Burak; Maggie Donnovan-Kaloust; Kim Rollins (chair); Liz Stuart; Kelcy Young.   

Completed Thesis Committee Chairs:

• Rachelle Curran, The Water Privatization Debate: A Critique of and Alternative to the International Financial Institutions' Promotion of the Private Provision of Water Services  (2006).

• Christine Currant, Framing is Important, but It's Not Everything: A Comparison of the Success and Failure of the Anti-GE Campaigns in Mendocino County and Butte County, California (2006).

• Jay Wright, A Policy Analysis of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's Hydroelectric Relicensing Process (2006).

Completed Thesis Committee Service:  Jyl Barnett, Becky Price-Hall.

University Service: 

• Affiliated Programs: Department of Government and Politics (Home Department); Environment and Community Graduate Program faculty; Interdisciplinary Program in International Studies faculty; Interdisciplinary Program in Postcolonial African Studies faculty.

• University Faculty Development Committee (2004-07)

• University Sexual Health Advocacy/AIDS Policy Committee (2004-07)

• General Faculty’s Nominating and Elections Committee (2004-07)

• Environmental Science Curriculum Working Group (2005-2006)  

• International Development Technology Curriculum Working Group (2005-2006)

• Chair of Search Committee for American Politics position (2006-2007)

• Faculty Mentor (2007-08)

External Referee for Food Policy, Ecological Economics, Human Organization, Blackwell Press, Thompson Wadsworth, Houghton Mifflin, Pearson-Prentice Hall, AB Longman, and Oxford University Press.

Reader, AP Comparative Politics Exam (2006).

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Comparative Politics. Questions relating to land and agrarian reform, rural development, and alternative development paradigms. Regional focus on Southern Africa.  

International Political Economy/International Relations. Debates over governance structures in science and technology policy and trade. Theoretical background in critical political economy.  

Environmental Politics and Policy. Specifically issues of agricultural technologies and development, biodiversity access and benefit sharing, seed patenting and the impact of intellectual property rights on hunger and rural development.  

Political Economy of Science. Issues relating to the social, political and economic implications of new technologies and conceptualizations of risk, particularly in agricultural biotechnologies.

AREAS OF TEACHING EXPERTISE
(* Denotes courses previously taught)

REFERENCES

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