Dr. Joshua Muldavin
Professor of Asian Studies and Human Geography, Sarah Lawrence College

B.S., M.A., Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley. Special interests in China and East Asia, comparative rural development, international development aid policy, agriculture, environment, political economy and social theory, and political ecology.

Current research projects analyze globalization, changes in national-level policies, and their environmental and social impacts on localities in China; comparative socialist transition; vulnerability and resource use in the Himalayan Region; resource and development conflicts in Central Asia, and international aid to China since 1978. Eighteen-years field research primarily in rural China, but also in Japan, Russia, Hungary, northern Europe, Cuba, and Mexico. Recipient of Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Fulbright, UCLA, and Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation grants.

Invited lectures at Oxford, Johns Hopkins, University of Havana, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Finnish parliament, and the Russian parliament.

Recent journal publications include "Aiding Regional Instability?: The Paradox of Japanese Development Assistance to China," "The Paradoxes of Environmental Policy in Reform Era China," "The Geography of Japanese Development Aid to China, 1978-1998," "The Limits of Market Triumphalism in Rural China," "Assessing Environmental Degradation in Contemporary China’s Hybrid Economy: State Policy Reform and Agrarian Dynamics in Heilongjiang Province," and "The Political Ecology of Agrarian Reform in China: The Case of Heilongjiang Province." Contributor to Economic Geography, Geopolitics, Environment and Planning A, Geoforum, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers. SLC, 2002-