Megan Baumann completed her PhD dissertation on “Irrigation megaprojects and human environment geography: Remaking land-water relationships in the megaprojects of Tolima, Colombia” and is working for Women’s World Banking in New York City. Megan’s new articles include “Agrobiodiversity’s caring material practices as a symbolic frame for environmental governance in Colombia’s southern Tolima” in a special issue of Geoforum that she has co-led and organized with Gabriel Tamariz on “Agrobiodiversity in Conflict and Post-Conflict Landscapes.” As this goes to press, Megan is currently visiting and continuing her close ties to Tolima.
Category Archives: Publications
– Zach passes PhD milestones, initiates research, and publishes new articles
Zach Goldberg passed his PhD preparations with flying colors while publishing three journal articles and a magazine piece. The title of his PhD research, currently underway, is “The rural land resources-justice nexus: utility-scale solar development on agricultural lands in the mid-Atlantic United States.” Zach has published a suite of new articles have appeared in Human Ecology, Agriculture and Human Values, and Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, as well as in the magazine Edge Effects that is published by the University of Wisconsin.
– Karl’s new research on agrobiodiversity, COVID, food systems, and urban agriculture
Karl has expanded new research and publications on COVID and food insecurity, the agrobiodiversity-food system-global change nexus, and urban agriculture. Ongoing work with three research teams has led to publications in Food Security, Geoforum, and Land (a special issue on migration-land system interactions) as well as the Grand Challenges article and founding editorship of Urban Agriculture that resides in the umbrella Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems journal. Urban Agriculture, whose editorial board includes Martha Bell (PhD 2012), is welcoming new submissions. During fall 2021, Karl has been teaching the First-Year Seminar on Food, Environment, and Society as well as the introductory graduate course on Geographic Inquiry (Geog 500), which is pictured below.
– Yooinn’s PhD on home gardens and agrobiodiversity, new article on Korean state’s role in uneven agrarian change
Yooinn Hong completed her PhD dissertation on “Home gardens as agrobiodiversity sites amid agrarian transformations in Jeju, Korea (1960–2016)” while working for the Korean National Institute of Ecology in Seoul. Yooinn’s new publications include “Regionally divergent roles of the South Korean state in adopting improved crop varieties and commercializing agriculture (1960–1980): A case study of areas in Jeju and Jeollanamdo” in the journal Agriculture and Human Values. In August, Yooinn participated in the University-wide Ph.D ceremony.