Office Hours, Fall 2009: 

Teaching:  

Winter and Spring, 2009:
What is Asia?  (ASIA 350)
Geography of Globalization (GEOG 342)
Food in Asia:  Economy and Society (ASIA 410/510) 

Fall 2009:
What is Asia?  (ASIA 350)
Society, Space, Nature (GEOG 607) 

Winter 2010: 
Geography of Pacific Asia (GEOG 205)
Geography of Globalization (GEOG 342)

Research Interests: 

Fields:  political economy; political ecology; development; economic geography; agrarian, urban, and area studies, China, East Asia.  My research combines these approaches to explore the mutual constitutions of society, space, and nature, and I have published on the following topics:  industrial network restructuring in urban and rural Shanghai; China’s urbanization and transition to capitalism through the prism of 19^th-century Europe and America; peak oil through the relationship between natural resources, technology change, and capitalism; the agrarian roots of flexible production networks in Taiwan; and the political economy of organic agriculture.  More information at: 

Curriculum Vitae

Last updated:  06/12/09
Department of Geography, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR  97403-1251