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.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

West Africa; gender, environment, and agricultural development; African Diaspora

AWARDS

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005
Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio research residency, 2005
American Council of Learned Societies fellowship, 2004
James M. Blaut Publication Award, Association of American Geographers for Black Rice, 2003
Melville Herskovits Book Award, African Studies Association, for Black Rice, 2002
Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award, 1996

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

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): 127-34.

J. Carney. The Bitter Harvest of Gambian Rice Policies, Globalizations, 5, no.2 (2008): 129-42.

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. "Gender Conflict in Gambian Wetlands," R. Peet and M. Watts (eds.) Liberation Ecologies: Environment, Development, Social Movements (Routledge: New York, 2004),pp. 316-335.

J. Carney. "'With Grains in Her Hair': Rice History and memory in Colonial Brazil," Slavery and Abolition, 25, no.1 (2004): 1-27.

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

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