Andrew Nicholas Grant
E-mail: angrant at ucla.edu
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EDUCATION

B.A. Geography, UW-Madison 2006

Certificate - Center for Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies, UW-Madison 2006

SUBFIELDS

Development, Social, Cultural, Humanist Geography; Western China, Tibet

RESEARCH

Works in progress:

Dissertation (proposed): Contemporary development in Western China's Qinghai Province: Its reasons, sources, targets, and implications for populations involved.

MA Thesis: 2008 Olympic Beijing Torch Relay and its symbolic implications for the various ethnic, national, and political groups involved.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Departmental Fellowship 2008-09

ADVISORS

Michael Curry, Nick Entrikin

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2010: AAG: Film, Fantasy, and Tibet
2009: APCG: Globalizing Place in Missionary Work in Qinghai Province, China