Dr. Radel joined USU in 2005, after receiving her PhD in Geography from Clark University. Her research explores the changing nature of natural resource-based livelihood strategies for individuals, households, and communities in the rural global south. She is interested particularly in how gender ideologies and practices both shape and are changed by these strategies. her research also examines the gendered nature of resource access, control, and decision-making. Current projects include (1) research on gender, conservation, and agriculture in communities surrounding Mexico's Calakmul Biosphere Reserve; (2) research on gendered labor out-migration and its relationship to environmental change in southern Mexico; and (3) research with pastoral women's savings and credit cooperatives in southern Ethiopia. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Radel worked as a community development consultant in Barranquilla, Colombia. She holds an MPA and Certificate in Science, Technology, Environment and Policy from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where she studied international development. She received her AB degree from Brown University in Environmental Studies and in Comparative Development Studies. Dr. Radel has spent time living and working in various countries in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa, including a year attending the University of Zimbabwe as a Rotary scholar in a graduate program in tropical resource ecology.
Articles
Extending a geographic lens towards climate justice, part 1: climate change characterization and impacts (with Morey Burnham, Zhao Ma, and Ann Laudati), Geography Compass (2013)
There has been a recent increase of interest within the academic literature on the justice...
Gendered mobility and morality in a south-eastern Mexican community: Impacts of male labour migration on the women left behind (with J. McEvoy, P. Petrzelka, and B. Schmook), Mobilities (2012)
Based on research conducted in a migrant-sending community in south-eastern Mexico, we find that male...
Keeping Them in Their Place: Migrant Women Workers in Spain’s Strawberry Industry (with Susan E. Mannon, Peggy Petrzelka, and Christy M. Glass), International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture and Food (2012)
The idea of guest-worker migration has resurfaced in recent decades as the global agri-food industry...
Labor migration and gendered agricultural relations: The feminization of agriculture in the ejidal sector of Calakmul, Mexico (with Birgit Schmook, Jamie McEvoy, Crisol Mendez, and Peggy Petrzelka), Journal of Agrarian Change (2012)
Migración, género y tenencia de la tierra: Identidades femeninas complejas en el sector rural de Calakmul (with B. Schmook, C. Mendez, J. McEvoy, and P. Petrzelka), Género y Migración en México (2012)
Contributions to Books
Nature / Environment: Natures, Gendered, International Encyclopedia of Human Geography (2009)
The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography provides an authoritative and comprehensive source of information on...