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

GRANTS

2001-02 National Geographical Society

AWARDS

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

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).