EDUCATION
PhD candidate;
MA, 2002: CSU Northridge, Geography [w/ distinction];
BS, 1992: CSU Northridge, Health Sciences [w/ Biology minor]
SUBFIELDS
Cultural Geography, Historical Geography of North America, esp. with regard to medical topographies.
NOTES
Special interests: roots and uses of the theory of evolution and the ecological model; 19th century visual images of the Colorado Plateau; emergence of disease following U.S. settlement/agricultural patterns.
PUBLICATIONS
Barbara Yablon Maida & Carl A. Maida. “Quality Of Life, Sustainability, and Urbanization of the Oxnard Plain, California,” in Carl A. Maida, ed. Sustainability and Communities of Place. Berghahn Books, Oxford and New York (2007).
GRANTS AND AWARDS
Alumni Association Fellowship (UCLA), 2009-2010
Graduate Funding (UCLA Department of Geography), 2009-2010
James and Sylvia Thayer Fellowship (UCLA Library), 2007
Summer Research Support Grant (UCLA Dept. of History), 2005
Thesis Research Award (CSUN), 2001
Newcomb Fellowship Award (CSUN Dept. of Geography), 2000
Kosciuszko Foundation Scholarship, 1999
ADVISORS
Hartmut Walter, chair
Stephen A. Bell
Tom Gillespie
Dora B. Weiner, History of Science and Medicine
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Darwin's Orchids: Cross-Pollination from Two or Three Perspectives; Darwin and Culture Symposium, AAAS Pacific Division, San Francisco, California 2009 [Honorable Mention, General and Interdisciplinary Studies/History and Philosophy of Science Sections].
Past and Future Malarial Landscapes in California’s Great Central Valley; Paradise Lost and… Recoverable?: New Humanities and Science Convergences IV, AAAS Pacific Division, Waimea, Hawai’i 2008
A Century of Misbelief: Milk Sickness in the American Midwest, 1828-1928; The Greening of the Disciplines: New Humanities and Science Convergences III, AAAS Pacific Division, Boise, Idaho 2007
Natural Selection, Taxonomy and Hierarchy: Casta Painting in 18th Century New Spain; New Humanities and Science Convergences Symposium II, AAAS Pacific Division, San Diego, California 2006
The New Ethnobotany: Complexities of Commerce and Health; New Humanities and Science Convergences Symposium, AAAS Pacific Division, Ashland, Oregon 2005
Quality of Life, Sustainability, and Development Pressures in Ventura County, California; XVth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Florence, Italy 2003
Images of Bounty and Scarcity: The Region West of the 100th Meridian; The Bioregional Vision in Science and Art Symposium, AAAS Pacific Division, San Francisco, California 2003
Temporal and Spatial Documentation of Epidemic Disease: The Strengths of Writing as a Geographer; APCG, Reno, Nevada 1999
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