Graduate Students

David Walker

M.A. Latin American Studies,
    San Diego State University
B.A. Latin American Studies,
    University of California - Berkeley

8 Miller Hall
Tel.:(859) 257-8237
Fax: (859) 323-1969
email: dwalk2@uky.edu

Profile

David received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley in Latin American Studies with a minor in Spanish and Portuguese, and earned an MA in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky. While at SDSU he wrote his thesis on changes to Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution and the privatization and urbanization of the Ejido sector in Mexican Border cities. David's research interests incorporate a theoretical approach to urbanization and spaces of resistance, neoliberalism and the restructuring of urban spaces, and race/gender and identity within the milieu of Mexican Cities. His current dissertation topic concerns the neoliberalization of space and gentrification as economic and cultural globalism in the Historic District of Downtown Mexico City.