Job title:
Professor Emeritus
Department:
Geography Department
Bio/CV:
Michael Watts is Class of 1963 Professor of Geography and Co-Chair of Development Studies, at the University of California, Berkeley where he has taught for over twenty-five years. He served as the Director of the Institute of International Studies from 1994-2004. His research has addressed a number of development issues especially food security, rural development, and land reform in Africa, South Asia, and Vietnam.
Research interests:
Political economy and political ecology; energy and the environment; Africa; famine; risk and vulnerability; violence and dispossession.
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