Naomi Y. Shanguhyia, Ph.D

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1 Curriculum Vitae Naomi Y. Shanguhyia, Ph.D Postdoctoral Faculty Fellow College of Arts and Sciences Syracuse University EDUCATION Ph.D., Geography - West Virginia University Dissertation Title: Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Landscape Change in Western Kenya Dissertation Chair: Dr. Brent McCusker M.A., Geography West Virginia University M. Ed. - Kenyatta University (Kenya) B.Ed. (Hons.) Kenyatta University (Kenya) TEACHING AND ADVISING Fall 2014 Humanities Faculty Fellow, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University CAS 100 (SEC M001 & M006) Food, Society and Environment CAS 100 (SEC M003) Gender and Nature Fall Summer 2014 GEOG 100 GEOG 103 GEOG /SOC/ENVS 251 GEOG 234/WMST 234 GEOG 286 ENVS 397 Lecturer SUNY Oneonta, Geography Department Introductory Geography Introduction to Environmental and Sustainability Studies Food, Society and the Environment Global Perspectives in Gender and Nature Geography of Africa Environmental Internship Summer 2008 & Graduate Instructor, West Virginia University, Department of Geology and Geography Course GEOG 102 World Regional Geography Page 1 of 5

2 Aug 2005 May Graduate Teaching Assistant, West Virginia University, Department of Geology and Geography GEOG 102 World Regional Geography GEOG 107 Introduction to Physical Geography GEOG 108 Introduction to Human Geography GEOG 199 Orientation to Geography GEOG 241 European Geography GRANTS AND AWARDS 2011 WVU Office of International Programs: Global Education Opportunities Grant 2010 National Science Foundation - Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant 2010 WVU Eberly College Dissertation Travel Grant 2010 WVU Geology and Geography Department Dissertation Travel Supplementary Grant 2007 WVU Eberly College HERF Supplementary Fellowship Award RESEARCH WORK September 2010 March 2011 Dissertation Fieldwork in western Kenya Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Landscape Change in Western Kenya December 2008 January 2009 Research Assistant NSF Collaborative Project, Mulanje, Malawi Project title Re-conceptualizing the Genesis of Change in Rural African Societies: Exploratory Research on the Co-production of Land Use and Livelihood Change (PI: Brent McCusker) August 1998 March 1999 M.Ed Thesis Fieldwork western Kenya PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS 2013 Shanguhyia N. & McCusker B.: Chronic Food Insecurity in Kenya s ASAL Areas: Naturalizing Uneven Development through Depeasantization and Deproletarianization. Human Geography: A Radical Journal Vol. 6. No. 3 Manuscripts in Progress Capital Penetration, Commodification of Nature and the Production of Rural Space: Examining Land Use and Land Cover Change in Western Kenya Living like we are in the City : Changing Rural Livelihoods during a period of Rapid Economic Change: The Case of Vihiga County - Western Kenya Page 2 of 5

3 A Political Economy of Rural Change: Neoliberal Economic Policies and Rural Development in Vihiga County, Western Kenya Dissertation and Theses 2013 Dialectics of Rural Change: A Political Economy of Livelihoods and Landscape Change in Western Kenya, Doctoral Dissertation, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University 2008 State Policy and Food Insecurity in Kenya s ASAL Areas, MA Thesis, Department of Geology and Geography, West Virginia University 2001 Improved Woodstove Use and Intra-household Resource Allocation among Rural Households in Vihiga Kenya, M.Ed. Thesis, Home Economics Department, Kenyatta University, Kenya Professional Presentations 2013 Divergent Narratives of Environmental Change: The Case of Forest Loss and Reforestation Efforts on the Maragoli Hills, Western Kenya, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers April Disparate Perceptions of Environmental Change: Who is Right and Does it Matter? SUNY College at Oneonta Faculty Convivium, April Mapping Rural Change Trajectories: Land Use and Land Cover Change in rural Western Kenya, Life of the Mind Faculty Showcase, SUNY Oneonta October Reversed Roles: Markets, Peri-urban expansion and Food Insecurity in rural Kenya, Joint Annual Meeting and Conference of the Agriculture, Food and Human Values (AFHVS), Association for the Study of Food and Society (ASFS) and Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN), New York University, NYC, June (with Martin Shanguhyia) 2010 Resource Extraction and the Production of Regulatory Space: The Case of West Virginia, Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers April 14 18, Washington DC (with Jennifer Smith, Paul O Keefe, Christopher Napier, Lindsey Felton, Brent McCusker, Phil O Keefe) 2008 The State and Uneven Development: The Case of Kenya s ASAL Areas. Critical Geography Conference, Ohio University, Athens, October The State and Food Insecurity in Kenya s ASAL Areas, Poster Presentation West Virginia University, Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Research Horizons Day, March 13 Page 3 of 5

4 2001 The Influence of Improved Woodstove Use on Intra-household Resource Allocation in Rural Vihiga, Kenya, Kenyatta University Postgraduate Seminar October, Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya Invited Presentations 2014 Social and Environmental Contexts of Food, SUNY Oneonta Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) Diversity Series Program, April Food Security vs. Food Sovereignty: GMOs and Africa s Moral/Ethical Dilemma, SUNY Oneonta, Department of Africana and Latino Studies, Dr. Ralph Watkins Lecture Series, November Rural Women and Environmental Change: Anecdotes from Kenya and Malawi, SUNY Oneonta, Department of Women s and Gender Studies, Gender Out of Bounds Seminar, October Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai Documentary Discussant, SUNY Oneonta Gender Equality and Rights Society, February The Refugee Crisis in Kenya Heshima Project, Dining For Women, Oneonta Chapter January Neoliberalism and Livelihood Change in rural Western Kenya, Eduardo Mondlane Brown Bag series of the Africa Initiative, Syracuse University, April Taking Root: The Vision of Wangari Maathai Documentary Discussant, SUNY Oneonta Students for Global Education, December Gender and Rural Development in Kenya, Geography of Gender Class, West Virginia University March 11 SERVICE Service to the University Sept 2013 May Geography Department Representative SUNY Oneonta College Library Committee Service to the Department Student Advisor Service to the Community Jan 2012 Feb 2014 Secretary - United Women of Africa Organization (Central New York) Page 4 of 5

5 American Association of Geographers Association for the Study of Food and Society Kenya Scholars and Studies Association PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION Page 5 of 5