Institute of International Studies; University of California, Berkeley

Michael J. Watts

Director
Institute of International Studies
Professor of Geography
University of California, Berkeley

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, University of Michigan 1979

Bachelor of Science, First Class Honors, University College, London 1972

Positions

Chancellor's Professor of Geography and Development Studies

Chair, Berkeley-Stanford African Studies Center, 1980-1984

Visiting appointments held at the Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Bergen, the University of Bologna, Pennsylvania State University

Service to the Social Science Research Council, African Studies Committee (1980-87); the National Science Foundation , 1987-89, (Geography and Regional Planning).

Fellowships and Awards

Guggenheim Fellow, 2003

Resources for the Future, Gilbert White Fellowship 1987

The Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio residency, 1996

Social Science Research Council/MacArthur Foundation, Peace and Security Fellow 1992-1994

Association of American Geographers, distinguished research award, 1996.

Research Grants

The MacArthur Foundation, International Peace and Co-operation Program, "Multilateralism and Cultural Identity in the Late Twentieth Century," 1997-2000

The Rockefeller Foundation, African Dissertation Workshop Program, 1995-1998

The University of California Systemwide Biotechnology Research and Education Program, "Agricultural Biotechnology and Systems of Innovation," 1998-2000.

Books

Globalizing Agro-Food. Edited with David Goodman, Routledge, 1997.

Liberation Ecologies. Edited with Richard Peet, Routledge, 1995.

Geographies of Global Change. Edited with Peter Taylor and Ron Johnston, Blackwell, 1995.

Reworking Modernity. Rutgers University Press, 1992.

Silent Violence. University of California Press, 1993.

See article, Message from the IIS Director (1994)

See interview, The Local-Global Dialectic: A Geographer's Perspective (2001)