William Moseley is a human-environment and development geographer with research
interests in political ecology, tropicial agriculture, livelihood security, environment
and development policy, land reform, fair trade, and famine early warning and hunger. He
teaches Introductory Human Geography, People and the Environment, Regional Geography of
Africa, and a senior seminar in Comparative Environment and Development Studies. He is
based in the geography department, teaching cross-listed courses in environmental
studies, international studies and African studies. 

Moseley is widely published in such journals as the Geographical Journal, the
Geographical Review, Ecological Economics, Globalizations, Geoforum and Applied
Geography. He has received external funding from the National Science Foundation and the
Fulbright-Hays program of the US Dept of Education. He is editor of the African
Geographical Review, a national councillor of the Association of American Geographers
(AAG), chair of the AAG's cultural and political ecology specialty group, and a
member of a National Academy of Science commission examining strategic directions for
geography in the coming decade. 

EDUCATION: B.A., Carleton College, 1987; M.S., University of Michigan, 1993; Ph.D.,
University of Georgia, 2001 

William Moseley has been teaching at Macalester College since 2002.

1. Books

2. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

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Making Study Abroad a Winning Proposition for Pre-Tenure Faculty, Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad (2009)
Internationally focused faculty at the nation’s top liberal arts colleges face an increasingly challenging mix...
 

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Beyond Knee-Jerk Environmental Thinking: Teaching Geographic Perspectives on Conservation, Preservation and the Hetch Hetchy Valley Controversy, Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2009)
Attention to scale, use of space and connections between places and regions are general, yet...
 

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The State of African Geography in the North American Academy (with Kefa Otiso), African Geographical Review (2008)
The objective of this article is to examine trends in the production of Africa-related geography...
 

3. Book Chapters

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What I Tell My Students About Peace Corps, Peace Corps at 50: Stories from Volunteers (2011)
 

Understanding Africa in a Global Context, Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa, 3rd Edition (2009)
 

Cotton, Encyclopedia of the Modern World (2008)
 

Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa, Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa (2008)
 

4. Book Reviews

5. Op-eds and Non-Refereed Articles

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Stop the Blanket Militarization of Humanitarian Aid, Foreign Policy (2009)
Op-ed problematizing the involvement of the US military in foreign assistance programs in West Africa.
 

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Let's not pull back on the Peace Corps, Minneapolis StarTribune (2008)
 

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In search of a better revolution, Minneapolis StarTribune (2008)