Recently, a conference on teaching world history and world geography was held in Austin, Texas.  Dubbed World 2000, the conference was designed for secondary, college, and university instructors.  When I was asked last year to organize a session on South Asia for this conference, I was reluctant to do it.  Given the fact that the perception and place of South Asia stands at the bottom of the American agenda, my thinking was: why waste my time?  It ain’t going to make any difference anyway.  It was a poor attitude, especially for a geography professor, one of whose fundamental academic missions is to promote geography in general and Asian/South Asian geography in particular.  Anyway, with some prodding from Jim Petersen who spearheaded the geography segment of the conference, I finally relented and organized a session on South Asia.
   To my pleasant surprise, it turned out to be a great conference, in fact the most satisfying geography conference I have ever attended anywhere.  Every session was fully attended, including the South Asia session.  The room was packed with geography instructors.  I have never seen any AAG South Asia session attracting so many participants.  At AAG meetings, the average attendance for South Asia sessions rarely exceed 15-20 people.  It is usually 10-15.  It was not so much the attendance, however, that was most gratifying about the Austin conference.  What was so comforting about the conference was the revelation that there are still enough secondary and college instructors in many urban trenches and rural fringes, teaching geography, namely regional geography, including South Asia.  So I returned to Tallahassee, feeling assured that regional geography lives on.  South Asia is still alive on the map of secondary and college level geography.
   But this euphoria did not last long, not because what I observed there was a tantalizing mirage.  No, it was not; it was real.  But there was irony in that reality of the Austin conference as it made me see where regional geography could be and where it currently is.  Why is regional geography witnessing a gradual decline within AAG and in high-powered geography departments, when its vibrancy lives on at the secondary and college levels?  Are they doing anything concrete to lend support to those instructors, to fuel their enthusiasm, and to entice their young students to pursue geography at the graduate level?  My fear is that they are not. 
   In his recent column (AAG Newsletter, February 2000), AAG President Golledge lamented the deepening trend toward segmentation, particularism, and destructive bickering with geography, and the loss of synthesis among its three components: human, physical, and technical.  While we dance around the periphery, arrogantly displaying our segmented (or should I say demented) prowess, we are losing our core as a field.  This “discipline-destruct mentality,” as Golledge puts it, is a disturbing trend, but it is a trend which, I believe, is directly attributed to the decline of regional geography.  It was regional geography after all that neatly held together the three components of geography, thereby elevating its power of synthesis as its distinct disciplinary identity.  Now they are fragmented precisely because regional geography is increasingly denigrated. 
   “If we are to survive as a discipline in an increasingly competitive world,” argues Golledge, “we must put forth a united front.  To perpetuate the schisms that have developed in the past between physical, human, and technical components of geography is a course of self-destruction.”  There is no question about the urgent need to put forth a united front, but I don’t believe such a front is likely to materialize until and unless we put forth concerted efforts to vigorously revive regional geography at the top level.  I say this, not because I am making a claim to yet one more particularism, treating regional geography as an all-too-important segment of geography.  No, regional geography is no more important than other aspects of geography.  It does, however, form the core of human, physical, and technical synthesis that Golledge is speaking of, and with which we are all familiar.
   Let me take Golledge’s clarion call one step further.  In addition to his call for horizontal integration, we direly need vertical integration and cooperation within geography if we are to insure its growth (AAG membership has declined from a peak of 7,381 in 1995 to about 6,500 in 1999).  What I mean by vertical integration is that AAG and university-level geography departments must bring into their orbit of networks secondary and college instructors, thus extending the boundary of geography’s family circle.  No more elitism. No more schisms.  We must reward those instructors with their due place in geography.  We must show those instructors proper respect rather than treat them as if they are clearly beneath their program’s dignity.  Much too often these departments (and their professors) refuse to admit that those instructors are the true torch carriers, the praetorian guards of geography, staunchly defending its territory at the grassroots level.  Yet they have been left out there in their urban trenches and rural fringes with very little external support to fend for themselves.  If we are to solidify our base, we must stand by them, constantly lending necessary moral as well as material support and fueling their enthusiasm and instruction of geography in their respective schools and colleges.  This is the only way to keep the pipeline of geography flowing, fill our classrooms, and fulfill the mission(s) of geography.  The motto is simple: Grow or die.
 
 

   The Sixth Asian Urbanization Conference was held in Madras (Chennai), Jan 5th – 9th, 2000.  Its running theme was 21st Century Challenges of Urbanization.  The sponsors of the conference included the Depts. of Geography at the University of Madras and Ball State University, The Indian Geographical Society, Asian Urban Research Association (headquartered at the Department of Geography and Planning, The University of Akron), Technical Teachers Training Institute, Madras, and Centre for Japanese Study and Research, University of Madras.  The opening session started with a ritual and was chaired by Ashok Dutt and inaugurated by the Madras Metropolitan Development Authority Commissioner.  There were over seventy participants in the conference.  Apart from the Indian participants, delegates came from Australia, Japan, South Korea, Germany, The Netherlands, England, Canada and USA.  The participants from US included, Jack Benhart, Ashok Dutt, Jan Nijman, George Pomeroy, William Rinse, Bheru Sukhwal, Jack Williams, G. Venugopal and Yeong-Kyun Kim.  Ten sessions, held during the five days, were on Urbanization, Urbanization in India, City and Gender, Urban Policies, Urban Development, Urban Rural Mix, Urban Development, Urban Ecology, Urban Decision Making and Urban Analysis.  The conference site was the Technical Teachers Training Institute in Madras, and the participants had the opportunity of getting briefed by the Madras Metropolitan Development Authority experts at their office followed by a tour of the city.  A field trip was also organized to visit the ancient city of Mahabalipuram.  In a special session, chaired by Bheru Sukhwal of the University of Wisconsin - Platteville, the book “Geographic and Planning Research Themes for the New Millennium – Felicitation in Honour of Professor Ashok K. Dutt”, was presented to Dr. Dutt.

Dutt, Ashok K. & Geib, Margaret, M.; Atlas of South Asia: A Geographical Analysis by Countries, Oxford and IBH Publishing Co. India, New Delhi, 1998, pp. 322, $35.00.  ISBN 1-886106-71-1.  (Orders for this book from American may be directed to Department of Geography and Planning, University of Akron, Akron, OH  44325, Tel.:330-972-7620, Fax 330-972-6080).

   The authors are commended for bringing out the revised version of a very useful reference in the form of this Atlas of South Asia.  The present volume has tremendous re-orientations over the previous one published in 1987 (Boulder & London: Westview Press).  In this volume the authors elaborated the format of the publication through their scholarly attempts to infuse great awareness of the changing scenario of the South Asian realm to readers and general public.  This Atlas depicts the characteristics till 1990s.  The Atlas encompasses seven chapters; one leading with exploring contemporary issues of South Asia in general followed by geographic exposition of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.  The authors have tried to project and analyze geographic, socio-economic, cultural and other related issues including political, administrative and historical perspectives on the basis of diverse data and sources.  A good deal of synthesis has been provided through maps, diagrams and intensive analyses which places the Atlas not merely a compilation of maps, but it gives a strong textual analysis on various synchronous themes.  Quite interesting is the gamut of analytical parameters like the countries’ historical setting from ancient to modern integrating geographical importance and manifestation.
   Fifty pages are devoted to interpret general characteristics i.e. geography and historical setting of the region with 39 maps.  Political and administrative systems, socio-economic, demographic and planning issues are covered in 142 pages with 178 maps and diagrams exclusively for India.  Other countries, vix, Bangladesh is covered in 36 pages with 43 maps and diagrams; Pakistan in 278 pages (34 maps and diagrams), Nepal (10 pages with 7 maps and diagrams).  In addition, a note in the form of an addendum written in 1998 is presented at the end of the book highlighting contemporary situation and conflicts in specific countries, current internal situation and assessing the role of SARC.  Maldives has not been included in maps and analysis in the volume.  A list of bibliography is included for the entire volume.  These are mostly topical researched articles, besides reports and documents of the International Agencies that served as sources for materials.
   The readers and technicians in the field of interest can enhance their knowledge by utilizing a large gamut of data that have gone into the production at one place which is not available elsewhere.  Some of the main maps are without linear scales, which, of course, do not deter the details of the themes, represented on them.  More or less, all single-variable illustrations (4 on a sheet; often 2 or 3 on one sheet of the page) also do not show scales.  The content and quality of maps are well crafted with clarity and cognizance by themes revealing even their microscopic distribution patterns.  Photographs and line sketches of temples and ancient monuments are nicely placed for interest.
   The volume combines geographical interpretation and mapping and presents the text lucidly on issues of agriculture, livestock, economy, habitat, population, food, minerals, industry, culture, planning and human responses of the South Asian countries.  It is a total geographical treatise of the sub-continent.  One can guess how much and diversified statistics have been synthesized in building-up this book.  As these countries try to integrate more and more with the global economy, there is a wide range of population aspiring for better life, which is constrained by lack of safe drinking water, illiteracy, disease, and vagaries of nature.  This leaves them in a precarious hold on their lives and above all dampens their zeal to scale-up to further development.  All these reflections are strongly manifested in this book in the form of maps, analyses and statistical transformations.
   The Atlas of South Asia is designed to cater to the needs of a large section of scholars, students, managers, administrators, regulators, legislators and translators.  Every institution and home concerned with this realm of the world should have this publication on the desk all the time.  In the age of information technology (IT), it is suggested that the publishers give a thought to creating an electronic medium of this work, so that it may reach every home capable of enlarging the patterns for ease of display in the new millennium.

B.K. Roy
Former Director, National Atlas of India

Chapman, Graham P., Dutt, Ashok K., Bradnock, Robert W. (Editors.), (1999). Urban Growth and Development in Asia. Ashgate, Aldershot, England, Vol. 1: Making the Cities.  Total Pages: 498, Price: $169.

Chapman, Graham P., Dutt, Ashok K., Bradnock, Robert W. (Editors), (1999). Urban Growth and Development in Asia. Ashgate, Aldershot, England, Vol. II: Living in the Cities.  Total pages: 519, Price: $182.

Dutt, Ashok K., Geib, M. Margaret, (1998). Atlas of South Asia – A Geographic Analysis by Countries. Delhi: Oxford and IBH Publishers, Total Pages: 318, Price: $35. (Order in the US, Canada and Europe from the Dept. of Geography and Planning, University of Akron, Akron, OH  44325-5005, Fax: 330-972-6080).

Noble, Allen G., Costa, Frank J., Dutt, Ashok K., Kent, Robert B. (Editors), (1998).  Regional Development and Planning in the 21st Century:  New Priorities, New Philosophies.  Ashgate, Aldershot, England. Price: $69.

Noble, Allen G., Thakur, Baleshwar, Mukherji, A. B., Costa, Frank J., (Editors), (2000). Geographic and Planning Research Themes for the New Millennium – Felicitation in Honour of Professor Ashok K. Dutt. Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, Total Pages: 491, Price: $39, (Order in the US and Canada from the Dept. of Geography and Planning, University of Akron, Akron, OH  44325-5005, Fax: 330-972-6080.)

Li Jianhe and Canute VanderMeer, “Assignments of Agricultural Land Use Rights to Households in Tongan County, Fujian, China”, Asian Geographer, Vol. 17, Nos. 1-2, 1998, pgs. 101-114

Canute VanderMeer and Jianhe Li, “Water Distribution in Farmer Managed Rice Irrigation Systems, Fujian, China”, Geographical Review of Japan, Vol. 71 (Ser.B), No. 2, 1998, pgs. 106-120.

Allen Noble’s Contributions to Geography (Sponsored by Regional Development and Planning, Asian Geography, and American Ethnic Geography Specialty Groups) 
   Organizers: George Pomeroy, Shippensburg University, Ashok Dutt, University of Akron
   Chairs: Ashok Dutt, University of Akron, John Benhart, Sr., Shippensburg University
   Panelists: Frank J. Costa, University of Akron, Debnath Mookherjee, Western Washingotn University, Elisha Efrat, Tel Aviv University, P.P. Karan, University of Kentucky, Clifton W. Pannell, University of Georgia, Brian Coffey, State University College – Geneseo, Hubert Wilhelm, Ohio University, Ramesh C. Tiwari, University of Manitoba

South Asia: Economy and Society (Sponsored by Asian Geography and Regional Development and Planning Specialty Groups)
   Organizers: George Pomeroy, Shippensburg University, Firooza Pavri, Emporia State University
   Chair: Firooza Pavri, Emporia State University
   12:00  George Pomeroy, Shippensburg University, A Spatio-Temporal Function Classification of Indian Cities
   12:20  William Noble, University of Missouri, Tarun Chhabra, Tamil Nadu, India, Toda Dairies, Sacred Buffaloes, and Dairy (Temple) Architecture: Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, India
   12:40  Seema Mukherjee, University of Akron, Density Gradient Changes in a Colonial Base City of India – Chennai
   1:00  Jeffrey A. Gritzner, University of Montana, and Firooza Pavri, Emporia State University, Iran: Continuity and Change in a Revolutionary Society

South Asia I (Sponsored by Asian Geography Specialty Group)
   Organizers: Shahalam M.N. Amin, Bloomsburg University, Jayati Ghosh, University of Wisconsin - Whitewater
   Chair: Robert E. Huke, Dartmouth College
   2:00  Michael Emch, University of Northern Iowa, Relationships Between Flood Control and Disease in Bangladesh
   2:20  Belayet Khan, Eastern Illinois University, Assessment of Weather Variability in Bangladesh
   2:40 Bimal K. Paul, Kansas State University, Sujata De, Kansas State University, Arsenic Poisoning Risk Regions in Bangladesh: A Comparison of GIS and Statistical Approach
   3:00  Shahalam M.N. Amin, Bloomsburg University, Environmental Impacts of Solid Waste in Dhaka City: Causes and Mitigation

South Asia II (Sponsored by Asian Geography Specialty Group)
   Organizers: Jayati Ghosh, University of Wisconsin - Waterville, Shahalam M.N. Amin, Bloomsburg University
   Chair: Ramesh C. Dhussa, Drake University
   4:00  Robert E. Huke, Dartmouth College, Per Capita Food Production in India 1962-1992: Spatial Change by District
   4:20  Jayati Ghosh, University of Wisconsin - Platteville, Economic Reforms and Foreign Investments in India, 1991-1999
   4:40  Ramesh C. Dhussa, Drake University, Cultural Geography of India Through Literature
   5:00  Sunita George, Alabama State University, Patterns of Inter-Industrial Occupational Mobility Among Migrants: A Case Study of Migrants to Hyderabad, India

NGOs in Developing Countries: A Critical Evaluation (Sponsored by Asian Geography and Africa Specialty Groups)
   Organizer:  Bimal K. Paul, Kansas State University
   Chair: Lakshman Yapa, Pennsylvania State University
   Panelists:  Lakshman Yapa, Pennsylvania State University, Nanda R. Shrestha, Florida A&M University, Jayati Ghosh, University of Wisconsin - Platteville, Joseph R. Oppong, University of North Texas, Bakama BakamaNume, Texas A&M University, Sujata De, Kansas State University, Kefa M. Otiso, Bowling Green State University

Cultural Politics of Asian Cities: Spaces, Subjects, Ideologies (Sponsored by Asian Geography Specialty Group)
   Organizers: Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto, Katharine N. Rankin, University of Toronto
   Chairs: Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto, Nihal Perera, Ball State University
   Panelists:  Katharine N. Rankin, University of Toronto, Kanishka Goonewardena, University of Toronto, Nihal Perera, Ball State University

Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Uneven Development I (Sponsored by China, Asian Geography, Economic Geography, and Regional Development and Planning Specialty Groups)
  Organizer: Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
   Chair:  Shuguang Wang, Ryerson Polytechnic University
   8:00  Chi Kin Leung, California State University – Fresno, External Investment in China’s Banking and Finance Industry
   8:20  Shuguang Wang, Ryerson Polytechnic University, The Changing Retail Industry in China
   8:40  Candy P.C. Lau, University of Hong Kong, A Tale of Two Provinces: A Comparative Study of Foreign Investment in Guangdong and Fujian, China
   9:00  Victor Sit, University of Hong Kong, Globalization and the Formation of Extended Metropolitan Regions in China
   9:20  Susan M. Walcott, Georgia State University, High-Tech Parks in Metropolitan Shanghai: From the Industrial to the Information Age

Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Uneven Development II (Sponsored by China, Asian Geography, Economic Geography, and Regional Development and Planning Specialty Groups)
   Organizers: Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
   Chair:  Chi Kin Leung, California State University – Fresno
   10:00  Jiantao Lu, University of California – Los Angeles, C. Cindy Fan, University of California – Los Angeles, Foreign Investment and Regional Development in China
   10:20  Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, The Wealth of City Regions: Development of Kunshan, China
   10:40  David W. Edgington, University of British Columbia, National Level Spatial Planning in Japan
   11:00  Jessie Poon, University at Buffalo, Wei-chern Ng, University at Buffalo, Foreign Direct Investment and Regional Development in Vietnam
   11:20  Sanjoy Chakravorty, Temple University, How Does Structural Reform Affect Regional Development? Evidence from India

Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Uneven Development III: Emerging Issues in Asia (Sponsored by China, Asian Geography, Economic Geography,  Regional Development and Planning Specialty Groups)
   Organizers: Yehua Dennis Wei, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Nanda R. Shrestha, Florida A&M University
   Chair:  David W. Edgington, University of British Columbia
   Panelists:  Sanjoy Chakravorty, Temple University, Gil Latz, Portland State University, Chi Kin Leung, California State University – Fresno, Jessie Poon, University at Buffalo, Stanley Toops, Miami University, Nanda R. Shrestha, Florida A&M University, Barney Warf, Florida State University

Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Uneven Development IV:  Japanese Corporations at Home and Abroad (Sponsored by China, Asian Geography, Economic Geography, and Regional Development and Planning Specialty Groups)
   Organizer: David W. Edgington, University of British Columbia
   Chair:  David W. Edgington, University of British Columbia
   4:00  Yuko Aoyama, Clark University, Entrepreneurship and Small Businesses in Japan
   4:18  Paul Parker, University of Waterloo, Japanese Automotive Firms and Environmental Initiatives
   4:36  Kohei Okamoto, Nagoya University, The Regional Impacts of Intelligent Transport Systems and Toyota’s Challenge
   4:54  Tamiko Kurihara, Toyo University, The Economic Activities by Sogo Shosha in the US and Canada in the late 1990s
   5:12  David W. Edgington, University of British Columbia, Japanese Electronics Companies in Malaysia
   Discussant: Yong-Sook Lee, Rutgers University

The most recent issue (Vol. 17, No. 2, 1998) of the Journal of Cultural Geography is devoted to topics on South Asian Sacred Places.  Seven articles are included in this issue.  Professor Allen G. Noble was the guest editor.  Articles and authors are:
 
Mosque Architecture in Bangladesh: The Archetype and Its Changing Morphology – Ishrat Islam and Allen G. Noble

Design of Settlements in the Vaastu Shastras – Amita Sinha

Toda Dairy Sites Apart from Hamlets – William A. Noble

Non-Hajj Pilgrimage in Islam: A Neglected Dimension of Religious Circulation – Surinder M. Bhardwaj

Dancing in the Fire: Ritually Constructing Hindu Identity in a Malaysian Landscape – Carolyn V. Prorok

Hindu Temple Development in the United States: Planning and Zoning Issues – Jay Johnson and Frank J. Costa

The Temple as a Symbol of Hindu Identity in America? – Surinder M. Bhardwaj and Madhusudana N. Rao

CHAIR
Nanda Shrestha
School of Business & Industry
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL  32307-5200
e-mail: snanda@famu.edu
voice: 850-599-8349
fax: 850-599-3533

SECRETARY-TREASURER
Robert E. Huke
Department of Geography
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH  03755-3571
e-mail: huke@dartmouth.edu
voice: 603-646-1260
fax: 603-646-1601

AREA DIRECTORS

South Asia: Barbara Brower
Department of Geography
Portland State University
Portland, OR  97207-0751
e-mail: browerb@geog.pdx.edu
voice: 800-547-8887, ext. 5-8044
fax: 503-725-8044

Southeast Asia: David Kummer
Department of Social Science
SUNY-Westchester Community College
Valhalla, NY  10595
e-mail: david.kummer@sunywcc.edu

East Asia: David W. Edgington
Department of Geography
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
CANADA
e-mail: edgintn@geog.ubc.ca
voice: 604-822-5612
fax: 604-822-6150

Southwest Asia: Shaul Cohen
Department of Geography
1251 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR  97403-1251
e-mail: scohen@oregon.uoregon.edu
voice: 541-346-4500
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~scohen

The titles of sessions, and names of organizers, chairs, and participants are listed below.  The spring edition of The Bulletin will include a more detailed list with names of participants, paper titles, and session times.

Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Uneven Development I (Sponsored by China, Asian Geography, Regional Development and Planning, and Economic Geography Specialty Groups).
Organizer:  Yehua Dennis Wei
Chair:  Shuguang Wang
Participants:  Chi Kin Leung, Shuguang Wang, Candy P.C. Lau, Victor Sit, and Susan M. Walcott

Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Uneven Development II (Sponsored by China, Asian Geography, Regional Development and Planning, and Economic Geography Specialty Groups).
Organizers: Yehua Dennis Wei and David W. Edgington
Chair:  Chi Kin Leung
Participants:  Jiantao Lu, Yehua Dennis Wei, David W. Edgington, Jessie P. Poon, Wei-chern Ng, and Sanjoy Chakravorty

Globalization, Economic Restructuring, and Uneven Development III (Sponsored by Asian Geography, China, Regional Development and Planning, and Economic Geography Specialty Groups).
Organizers: Yehua Dennis Wei and Nanda Shrestha
Chair:  David Edgington
Panelists:  Sanjoy Chakravorty, Gil Latz, Chi Kin Leung, Jessie P. Poon, Stanley Toops, Nanda R. Shrestha, and Barney Warf

Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Uneven Development IV: Japanese Corporate Geography at Home and Abroad (Sponsors: Asian Geography, China, Regional Development and Planning, and Economic Geography Specialty Groups).
Organizer and Chair: David W. Edgington
Participants: Yuko Aoyama, Paul Parker, Kohei Oakamoto, Tamiko Kurihara, and David W. Edgington
Discussant: Yong-sook Lee

NGOs in Developing Countries: A Critical Evaluation (Sponsored by Asian and African Geography Specialty Groups).
Organizer:  Bimal K. Paul
Chair:  Lakshman Yapa
Panelists:  Lakshman Yapa, Nanda Shrestha, Jayati Ghosh, Joseph Oppong, Bakama BakamaNume, Sujata De, and Kefa Otiso

South Asia I (Sponsored b Asian Geography Specialty Group).
Organizers: Shahalam M. Amin and Jayati Ghosh
Chair: Robert Huke

Participants: Michael Emch, Belayet Khan, Bimal Paul, Sujata De, and Shahalam M. Amin

South Asia II (Sponsored by Asian Geography Specialty Group).
Organizers: Jayati Ghosh and Shahalam M. Amin
Chair: Ramesh Dhussa
Participants: Robert Huke, Jayati Ghosh, and Ramesh Dhussa

The following candidates have been nominated for two vacant positions: South Asia and Southeast Asia directors. Please mark your ballot and sent it (via mail, email, or fax) by March 20th, 2000 to:

Dr. Nanda Shrestha
School of Business & Industry
Florida A&M University
Tallahassee, FL  32307-5200
E-mail: snanda@famu.edu
Voice: 850-599-8349
Fax: 850-599-3533
 

South Asia Director

Dr. Jayati Ghosh

Write in _____________________________
 
 

Southeast Asia Director

Dr. Rachel Silvey

Write in _____________________________
 
 

Dr. Jayati Ghosh, who received her M.Sc. Degree from the University of Calcutta and Ph.D. from Wilfrid Laurier University of Canada, is a member of the Geography faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  She teaches various geography courses, including the Geography of Asia.  Dr. Ghosh is the 1997 recipient of the UW-Whitewater Academic Staff Excellence Award.  Dr. Ghosh has published articles in Geography and Wisconsin Geographer.  She is currently co-editing a book on HIV/AIDS in Africa, which will be published by Blackwell Publishers.

A graduate of the University of California-Santa Cruz (M.A.) and the University of Washington (Ph.D.), Dr. Rachel Silvey is Assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  Her articles have been published or are being published in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Gender, Place and Culture, GeoForum, and Women’s Studies International Forum.  Dr. Silvey has recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation.