PhD

University of California, Berkeley

Political Science, expected May 2009

Politics Where the Wild Things Are: Nature Tourism, Property Rights, and Traditional Leadership in Rural Botswana and South Africa

David K. Leonard (Chair), Louise Fortmann, Kevin O'Brien, and Robert Price

Fields: Comparative Politics, African Politics, Methodology

MA

Political Science, May 2002

Creating Communal Governance: the Case of the Pafuri Triangle

Masters in Social Science

University of Cape Town, South Africa

Political Studies/African Politics with Distinction, December 1999

Changing Constructions of Citizenship in South Africa

BA

Duke University

Magna cum Laude with Distinction in Public Policy Studies, May 1995

Certificate in Women’s Studies

Communities, Wildlife Conservation, and Tourism-based Development: Can Community-based Nature Tourism Live Up to Its Promise? Journal of International Wildlife Law and Policy 7: 161-182, 2004. Co-published in the University of California International and Area Studies Digital Collection, 5, 2006, after separate review and revision.

2008

“Embodiment, Positionality and Self-presentation: Informant Perceptions and Fieldwork Strategies in Southern Africa.” On co-organized panel, “The Nuts and Bolts of Challenging Fieldwork,” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 2008.

“Historical Dispossession and Contemporary Politics: Divergent Nature Tourism Trajectories in Rural Southern Africa.” Berkeley Tourism Studies Working Group Symposium on Celebrity, Politics, and Conservation: Examining Tourism in Southern Africa, Berkeley, CA, April 2008.

 “Nature Tourism, Property, and Local Politics in Southern Africa: A Comparative Analysis.” Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Diego, CA, March 2008.

“Doing Fieldwork in Challenging Contexts.” Professional Development Workshop, Department of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley, March 2008.

2007

 “Conditions Not of their Choosing: Understanding Local Involvement in Nature Tourism.” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, New York, NY, October 2007.

“Historicizing Nature Tourism: Property regimes, land, and natural resource management in Botswana and South Africa.” Center for African Studies Lecture Series, University of California, Berkeley, April 2007.

2006

“The Political Economy of Livestock Policy in Uganda: Constraints and Opportunities for Rural Livestock Producers.” Panel Presentation for the Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley, December 2006.

“Farming to Nature: Displacement without Resistance in Northernmost Limpopo?” Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, November 2006.

“Recognizing and Eradicating Racism in Environmental Commons: The Environmental Justice Movement, White Privilege and Commons Scholarship.” University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society Seminar, Durban, South Africa, May 2006.

2004

“Liberalization and Domestic Politics: The Case of Livestock Policy Reform in India” Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September 2004.

with Diana Pei Wu. “Recognizing and Eradicating Racism in Environmental Commons: The Environmental Justice Movement and Commons Scholarship.” 10th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Oaxaca, Mexico, August 2004.

“Communities, conservation, and tourism-based development: Can community-based nature tourism live up to its promise?” Breslauer Graduate Student Symposium on Natural Resource Issues in Africa, University of California-Berkeley, March 2004.

2003

with Diana Pei Wu. “Environmental Justice: Social Movement and Analytical Framework.” Center for Race and Gender, University of California-Berkeley, May 2003.

1997

“Emerging Conceptions of Citizenship in South Africa: An examination of Curriculum 2005.” International Sociological Association Research Committee on Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations Conference: Multicultural citizenship in the “new” South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa, December 1997.

Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods, Institute for Qualitative Research Methods, 2004

University of California, Berkeley, Summer Institute for Preparing Future Faculty, 2007

Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, Washington, DC.

Program Associate, May 2000-July 2001. Directed research project on increasing engagement in arts and cultural activities among racial and ethnic minorities and provided support to Office of Research.

Research Analyst, November 1998- October 2000. Assisted residents of the Scarboro community in Oak Ridge, TN to understand and respond to environmental health concerns arising from their close proximity to the U.S. DOE’s Y-12 nuclear processing facility: provided information on relevant environmental and health studies, prepared educational materials on hazardous substances used at the Oak Ridge site, conducted a household survey, and helped residents to voice their concerns to decision-makers.

Environmental Monitoring Group, Cape Town, South Africa.

Volunteer, March 1997- January 1998. Helped to facilitate a response to the Green Paper on Minerals Policy from mining communities. Assisted in organizing and implementing the first evaluation of the First Aid Fund, a small grant program assisting communities facing serious environmental problems.

Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation, Winston-Salem, NC.

Junior Program Officer, August 1995- July 1996. Assisted with Organizational Development and Community Problem-Solving grant programs and managed the Opportunity Fund, a staff discretionary grant program.

Reviewer, Journal of Sustainable Tourism

Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics: Advisory Board Member, 2003-200

Political Science Graduate Student Association: Diversity Committee Chair, Spring 2007 & 2007-2008

Tourism Studies Working Group: Co-Chair 2007-2008, Core Group member 2006-2008

 “Celebrity, Politics, and Conservation: Examining Tourism in Southern Africa” Symposium Organizer

Racialized Environments, Naturalized Differences Graduate Working Group: 2001-2003, Co-Founder

American Political Science Association

African Studies Association

International Association for the Study of Common Property

National Conference of Black Political Scientists

David K. Leonard (Dissertation chair)

Professor Emeritus of Political Science,

University of California, Berkeley &

Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies

University of Sussex

Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RE United Kingdom

Telephone: +44 (0) 1273 87 2539

E-Mail: D.Leonard@ids.ac.uk

Louise Fortmann

Rudy Grah Professor of Forestry and Sustainable Development

University of California

121 Giannini Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-3312

Telephone: (510) 642-7018

E-Mail: fortmann@nature.berkeley.edu

Robert Price

Professor of Political Science

University of California

119 California Hall #1500

Berkeley, CA 94720-1500

Telephone: (510) 642-1049

E-mail: rprice@berkeley.edu

Gloria Chun (Teaching)

Graduate Diversity Director, Social Sciences

University of California

201 Campbell Hall, #2920

Berkeley, California 94720-2920

Telephone: (510) 642-5565

E-Mail: gloria_chun@ls.berkeley.edu