EDUCATION
Ph.D.- Geography, UCLA (expected 2014)
M.B.A.- University of Arizona (2008)
B.A.- Government, Cornell University (1998)
SUBFIELDS
Political Geography, Chinese-Latin American relations, contemporary China, contemporary Latin America, environmental politics
RESEARCH
Interested in China's political and economic role in Latin America and Latin American responses to China's presence in the region. Research also involves the environmental impacts of emerging relations between these two regions. Also interested in the geopolitics of entryways (seaports, canals, airports, rail lines) and their role in understanding globalization.
PUBLICATIONS
Peer Reviewed Publications
Narins, T. (Forthcoming) Dynamics of the Russia-China Forest Products Trade (1993 to 2010), Growth & Change.
Narins, T. 2013. Ecuadorian State-Capacity Building through Territorial Strategic Asset Management, Journal of Latin American Geography, March 2013, volume 12, Issue 2.
Muellerleile, C., Strauss, K., Spigel, B. and Narins, T. 2013. Economic Geography and the Financial Crisis: Full Steam Ahead?, The Professional Geographer. February 2013: 1-7.
Narins, T. 2012. Chinas Eye on Ecuador: What Chinese trade with Ecuador reveals about Chinas economic expansion into South America, Global Studies Journal. Volume 4, Issue 2, pp. 295-308.
Other Publications
Narins, T., Pavri, F., Quynh, N., and Zappa, M. 2010. Global Climate Change case study: Where are rising sea levels threatening human and natural environments? In Solem, M., Klein, P., Muniz-Solari, O., and Ray, W., eds., AAG Center for Global Geography Education. Available from http://globalgeography.aag.org.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
UCLA Anderson School Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER) student research grant, 2011
UCLA Graduate Student Research Mentorship Award, AY 2009-2010
UCLA Graduate Student Research Mentorship Award, Summer 2009
Alice Belkin Memorial Award for International Relations, 2008
University of Arizona Merit-Based Scholarship, 2006
ADVISORS
Dr. John Agnew (Committee Chair, Geography)
Dr. David Rigby (Geography)
Dr. Cindy Fan (Geography)
Dr. James Tong (Political Science)
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Presentation Title: Dynamics of the Russia-China Forest Products Trade (1993 – 2010), Annual Meeting of the Los Angeles Geographical Society – Los Angeles, CA – May 3, 2013.
Presentation Title: Contemporary Latin America and the Geopolitics of Change: A Comparison of National and Sub-National Institutional Responses to the Geographic Expansion of Chinese interests in Bolivia and Chile (1990 to 2010), Annual Meeting of the Los Angeles Geographical Society, Los Angeles, CA, May 4, 2012.
Presentation Title: Contemporary Latin America and the Geopolitics of Change: A Comparison of National and Sub-National Institutional Responses to the Geographic Expansion of Chinese interests in Bolivia and Chile (1990 to 2010), Annual Meeting of the California Geographical Society, Davis, CA, April 28, 2012
Presentation Title: Thoughts on Chinese interests in South America (with emphasis on Bolivia), Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New York, NY, February 25, 2012
Presentation Title: Chinas Eye on Ecuador: What Chinese Trade with Ecuador Reveals about Chinas Economic Expansion into Latin America, 4th Annual Global Studies Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 19, 2011
Presentation Title: What does Port Infrastructural Development Tell us about Chinas emergence in Latin America?, From the Great Wall to the New World: China and Latin America in the 21st Century Conference sponsored by the China Quarterly,
Los Angeles, CA, April 15, 2011
Presentation Title: Global Climate Change case study: Where are rising sea levels threatening human and natural environments?, Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Seattle, WA, April 13, 2011
Presentation Title: On Track and Online: The People�??s Republic of China�??s advance in Latin America, Annual Association of Asian Studies/International Conference of Asian Scholars Joint Conference, Honolulu, HI, April 2, 2011
Presentation Title: On Track and Online: The People�??s Republic of China�??s advance in Latin America, Texas Asia Conference Austin, TX, February 12, 2011
Presentation Title: Humiliation Maps and the mapping of China's future: A bio-political explanation for modern day Chinese expansion, International Conference on China and the Future of Human Geography, Guangzhou, China, August 27, 2010
Poster Title: Surprising Development: Conserving natural resources for economic growth and improved international relations, Global Initiatives-Symposium in Taiwan 2010, Taipei, Taiwan, July 13, 2010
Presentation Title: Assembling Modern China with World Trade Centers not Empire State Buildings, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, April 15, 2010
Presentation Title: Winning Twice: China�??s Natural Forest Protection Program and the Russian Far East, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, October 3, 2009
Presentation Title: Winning Twice: China�??s Natural Forest Protection Program and the Russian Far East, UCLA China Undisciplined Conference, Los Angeles, CA, May 22, 2009
Presentation Title: Impacts of Trade on Wage Inequality in Los Angeles: Using Matched Employer-Employee Data based on a paper of the same name written by David Rigby (Department of Geography, UCLA) & Sebastien Breau (Department of Geography, McGill University), The Process of Integration in North America: Challenges under a New Regional Agenda, a conference on North American Integration, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa, Culiacan, Mexico, March 26, 2009
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