Judith A. Carney
Department of Geography
1255 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1524
t: 310.825.1216
f: 310.206.5976
email: CARNEY@GEOG.UCLA.EDU
office: 1255 BUNCHE

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Geography, University of California, Berkeley 1986.

SUBFIELDS

African botanical legacies in tropical America

RESEARCH INTERESTS

African components of the Columbian Exchange; Africa and the African diaspora; political ecology; environmental history; sub-Saharan Africa; food and agriculture; critical development studies

AWARDS

2012 Distinguished Scholarship Honor, Association of American Geographers

2012 Robert McC. Netting Award in recognition of distinguished research and professional activities that bridge geography and anthropology, Association of American Geographers.

2012 Carl O. Sauer Distinguished Scholarship Award, Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Association of American Geographers.

2010 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, Gilda Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, for In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (University of California Press, 2009).

2005-06 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship

2005 Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residency

2004 American Council of Learned Societies fellowship

2003 James M. Blaut Publication Award, Association of American Geographers for Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2001).

2002 Melville Herskovits Book Award, African Studies Association, for Black Rice

2001 National Geographical Society (for research on quilombos, Brazil)

1997 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (quilombos, Brazil)

1996 UCLA Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award: Eby Award for undergraduate teaching

1988-89 John D. Rockefeller Foundation post-doctoral fellowship

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

J. Carney. The Colombian Exchange, in Joe Miller (ed.) Princeton Companion to Atlantic History (New York: MTM Press), forthcoming.

J. Carney. African Plant and Animal Species in Eighteenth-Century Tropical America, in Veronika Hyden-Hanscho; Renate Piper; Werner Stangl (eds.) Cultural Exchange and Consumption Patterns in the Age of Enlightenment Europe and the Atlantic World (Bochum: Winkler Verlag), pp. 97-115.

H. Rangan, J. Carney, and T. Denham. Environmental History of Botanical Exchanges in the Indian Ocean World, Environment and History, 18, no.3 (2012): 311-342.

B. Crow and J. Carney. Commercializing Nature: Mangrove Conservation and Female Oyster Collectors in The Gambia, Antipode, 45 (2) (2013): 275-293.

J. Carney. "Landscapes and Places of Memory: African Diaspora Research and Geography," in Tejumola Olaniyan and James H. Sweet (eds.), The African Diaspora and the Disciplines (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010), pp.101-118.

W. Moseley, J. Carney, and L. Becker “Neoliberal Policy Reform, Food Production, and Household Livelihood Security in West Africa: A Comparative Study of the Gambia, Côte d’Ivoire, and Mali," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)107,March 25, 2010: 5774-5779.

J. Carney and R.N. Rosomoff. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa's Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009).

J. Carney. Reconsidering Sweetness and Power through a Gendered Lens, Food and Foodways, 16, no.2 (2008):127-134.

J. Carney and M. Elias. "Revealing Gendered Landscapes: Indigenous Female Knowledge and Agroforestry of African Shea," Canadian Journal of African Studies, 40, no.2 (2006): 235-267.

J. Carney. "Rice and Memory in the Age of Enslavement: Atlantic Passages to Suriname," Slavery and Abolition, 26, no.3 (2005): 325-347.

J. Carney. ‘With Grains in Her Hair’: Rice History and Memory in Colonial Brazil, Slavery and Abolition, 25 (1): 1-27 (2004).

J. Carney and R. Acevedo. Saberes agrícolas dos escravos africanos no Novo Mundo, Ciência Hoje, 35, no.205 (2004): 26-33.

J. Carney. Navegando Contra a Corrente: O Papel dos Escravos e da Flora Africana na Botânica do Período Colonial, África: Revista do Centro de Estudos Africanos, 22/23, no. 1 [1999-2001] (2004): 25-47.

J. Carney and R. Voeks. "Landscape Legacies of the African Diaspora in Brazil," Progress in Human Geography, 27, no.2 (2003): 139-152.

J. Carney. African Traditional Plant Knowledge in the Circum-Caribbean Region, Journal of Ethnobiology, 23, no.2 (2003): 167-185.

J. Carney. African Rice in the Columbian Exchange, Journal of African History, 42, no.32 (2001):377-396.

J. Carney: Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001).

J. Carney and R. Acevedo Marin. Aportes dos escravos na história do cultivo do arroz africano nas Américas, Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, 12 (1999): 113-133.

J. Carney. The Role of African Rice and Slaves in the History of Rice Cultivation in the Americas, Human Ecology, 26, no.4: (1998): 525-545.

J. Carney and M. Hiraoka. Raphia taedigera in the Amazon Estuary, Principes, 41, no.3 (1997): 125-130.