Professor
Department of History
Chair, Geography Graduate Group
The University of California at Davis
Lake Tahoe, Nov. 2018
Research Interests:
Political Ecology; Environmental History; Colonialism;
Pastoral Societies and Arid Lands; Middle East and North Africa;
Environmental Change and Public Health; Ethnoveterinary Medicine
Curriculum Vitae
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Why Veterinary Medicine, Geography
and then History?
- I went to veterinary school to be a better geographer and to be able to work with nomads
and their livestock while conducting geographical fieldwork for my dissertation. Listening
carefully to the nomads led me to research the deep histories of stories told by colonial powers
about the environment and environmental change over time. The resulting historical geography/
political ecology is often thought of as (critical) environmental history. I practiced veterinary
medicine for several years with a variety of patients from cats & dogs to sea birds.
- I went to veterinary school to be a better geographer and to be able to work with nomads
and their livestock while conducting geographical fieldwork for my dissertation. Listening
carefully to the nomads led me to research the deep histories of stories told by colonial powers
about the environment and environmental change over time. The resulting historical geography/
political ecology is often thought of as (critical) environmental history. I practiced veterinary
medicine for several years with a variety of patients from cats & dogs to sea birds.
BOOKS:
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 Related: "Of Deserts and Decolonization" |
 Recipient of: Marsh Prize & Meridian Award |
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Undergraduate Courses:
HIS/SAS 109:
Environmental Change, Disease and Public Health (Fall 2022 Description)
GDB 106: Geographies of (One)Health (Spring 2022 Description)
HIS 107: Medicine's Histories: Human and Veterinary Medicine
From the Ancient World to One Health (Fall 2021)
Graduate Courses:
GEO 200AN: Geographic Concepts: Histories of Geographic Thought (limited to GGG grads)
GEO 260: Global Political Ecology
HIS 201X: Global Environmental History: Critical Perspectives
HIS 201X: Empires of Nature: Imperialism and the Natural World in Africa and Asia
HIS 201X: Nature and Culture: Environmental History & Social Theory
GDB 106: Geographies of (One)Health (Spring 2022 Description)
HIS 107: Medicine's Histories: Human and Veterinary Medicine
From the Ancient World to One Health (Fall 2021)
Graduate Courses:
GEO 200AN: Geographic Concepts: Histories of Geographic Thought (limited to GGG grads)
GEO 260: Global Political Ecology
HIS 201X: Global Environmental History: Critical Perspectives
HIS 201X: Empires of Nature: Imperialism and the Natural World in Africa and Asia
HIS 201X: Nature and Culture: Environmental History & Social Theory
Links:
Middle East and South Asia Program at UCD
American Veterinary Medical History Society (AVMHS)
US Bill of Rights, Constitution, and Declaration of Independence
Fisherman's Wharf, Summer 2008
