Oliver Frohling is a Kentucky geographer in self-imposed exile in Oaxaca, Mexico. With a background in environmental studies and GIS, he is at the moment feverishly working on finishing his Ph.D. dissertation on Indigenous Autonomy in Mexico, one of the important political issues in Mexico ever since the 1994 Uprising in Chiapas. In the meantime, he has gotten involved in a variety of other activities, like working with local NGOs involved in issues of Ecology and Indigenous rights as well as pursuing an affiliation with the Universidad Autnoma "Benito Jurez" de Oaxaca. He is currently developing the geography summer program in Oaxaca in conjunction with the Centro Intercultural de Encuentros y Dialogo, where he hopes to show to Kentucky students the beauty of this region that has captured his soul. Academically, he maintains his interests in political ecology, indigenous people, GIS and Social Theory.