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, Agriculture and the Environment; Geography of Development; 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 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 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 a national councillor of the Association of American Geographers (AAG). He has served as editor of the African Geographical Review (2006-2010), chair of the AAG's cultural and political ecology specialty group (2008-2010), and a member of a National Academy of Science commission examining strategic directions for geography in the coming decade (2008-2010). 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
The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings (with David Lanegran and Kavita Pandit) (2007)
2. Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Geographers in the Public Square: A Comparative Analysis of Op-Ed Productivity (with Dillon Teske), Applied Geography (2011)
This paper explores three questions. 1) How active are academics in the op-ed pages of...
Lessons from the 2008 Global Food Crisis: Agro-Food Dynamics in Mali, Development in Practice (2011)
High food prices in 2008 touched off food riots around the world, with urban West...
On Engaging with New Economic Geography, Dialogues in Human Geography (2011)
A response to Eric Sheppard's article on New Economic Geography.
Assessing Sub-Saharan Africa’s University-Level Geography Resources:, African Geographical Review (2010)
Remarkably few studies have been undertaken to assess the level of university geography resources within...
3. Book Chapters
What I Tell My Students (About Peace Corps), One Hand Does Not Catch a Buffalo: 50 Years of Amazing Peace Corps Stories (2011)
Advice given to students regarding Peace Corps as well as relfections on my own tenure...
Response to Michael Watts. Whither Development?: The Struggle for Livelihood in the Time of Globalization., Macalester International (2009)
Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa, Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa (2008)
4. Book Reviews
Review of N. Fold and M.N. Larsen (eds). Globalization and Restructuring of African Commodity Flows, Canadian Journal of African Studies (2009)
Review of C.M. Good, Jr. The Steamer Parish: The Rise and Fall of Missionary Medicine on an African Frontier. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, Professional Geographer (2008)
Review of J. Fairhead and M. Leach. Science, Society and Power: Environmental Knowledge and Policy in West Africa and the Caribbean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (with Erika Jerme), African Studies Review (2005)
Review of J. Keeley and I. Scoones. Understanding Environmental Policy Processes: Cases from Africa. London: Earthscan Publications., The Geographical Journal (2005)
Review of W. Beinart and J. McGregor. Social History & African Environments. Oxford: James Currey., Professional Geographer (2005)
5. Op-eds and Non-Refereed Articles
Make farming energy efficient, Atlanta Journal-Constitution (2011)
This op-ed argues that American agriculture must become more energy efficient if it is to...
Area Studies in a Global Context, Chronicle of Higher Education (2009)
In this editorial, the author argues that the study of global processes and a grounded...
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.