|
|
Eric Carter is a human geographer with research interests in the political ecology of development, health geography, and environmental history, with an area focus on Latin America . Born and raised in California, he received his B.A. in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994, and his M.S. (1999) and Ph.D. (2005) in Geography from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He joined the Grinnell faculty in 2007, after teaching for two years at Millersville University of Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. thesis, co-winner of the 2006 Jacques May Thesis Prize in Medical Geography, examined the social and environmental dynamics of malaria control in Northwest Argentina from 1890 to the present. Portions of this thesis have been revised and published in the Journal of Historical Geography, Journal of Latin American Geography, and Geoforum. In addition to this research project, he has also studied the political ecology of shrimp farming in Ecuador (for M.S. thesis), agricultural biodiversity conservation in Mexico, and conservation policy trends in Latin America. He is currently pursuing two major new research projects. One will investigate the land use/land cover change drivers of an array of vector-borne diseases in the Yungas ecoregion of northwestern Argentina and southern Bolivia. The other project will analyze changing modes of environmental governance in Latin America under neoliberalism, with special focus on new international development zones and transportation corridors. In addition, he is writing a chapter on the Argentine province of Misiones for an edited volume entitled Border Anomalies. He also serves on the Editorial Board of the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. |
||
