CO-DIRECTORS
ANANYA ROY >>
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Ananya Roy is Professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning where she teaches in the fields of comparative urban studies and international development. Roy also serves as Education Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies. Roy holds a B.A. (1992) in Comparative Urban Studies from Mills College, a M.C.P. (1994) and a Ph.D. (1999) from the Department of City and Regional Planning at the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (University of Minnesota Press, 2003), co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (Lexington Books, 2004), and co-editor of The Practice of International Health (Oxford University Press, 2008). Her upcoming book, based on research funded by the National Science Foundation, is titled Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Frontiers of Millennial Development (Routledge). She is currently working on a co-edited book with Aihwa Ong titled Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global. Roy is the 2006 recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award, the highest teaching honor UC Berkeley bestows on its faculty.
RICHARD WALKER >>
RICHARD WALKER is Professor of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1975. He received a B.A. in Economics from Stanford University in 1969 and a Doctorate in Geography and Environmental Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 1977. He has taught and advised a large number of students over the years, many of whom are well-known scholars in their own right around the country and abroad. He is a past recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships.
Walker has written on a diverse range of topics in economic, urban, and environmental geography, with scores of published articles to his credit. He is author, with Michael Storper, of The Capitalist Imperative: Territory, Technology and Industrial Growth (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989) and, with Andrew Sayer, of The New Social Economy: Reworking the Division of Labor (Cambridge USA: Blackwell, 1992).
Most recently, his focus has been on California, including recent books on agriculture, The Conquest of Bread: 150 Years of California Agribusiness (New Press, October 2004) and environmentalism, The Country in the City: The Greening of the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Washington Press, 2007). A third volume, Portrait of a Gone City: The Urbanization of the San Francisco Bay Area, is in is the works. He has also published articles on California’s economy, natural resources, immigration, and politics.
Walker has served as Chair of Geography at Berkeley, of the statewide California Studies Association, and of the California Studies Center at UC Berkeley.
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