JEFFREY, Craig
Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography
Office: 408 A Smith
Box: 353550
Phone: (206) 543-5843
email: cjj3@u.washington.edu
Education
- B.A. The University of Cambridge,
- Starred First (Distinction) B.A. Hons. in Geography, 1995
- M.A. The University of Cambridge,
- Ph.D. The University of Cambridge,
Employment
September 2005 -
Assistant Professor, Jackson School of International Studies,
University of Washington, USA
September 2005 -
Assistant Professor, Department of Geography,
University of Washington, USA
2004 - 2005
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth,
Delhi University, Delhi, India
2000 - 2002
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Economic Growth,
Delhi University, Delhi, India
1999-2005
Lecturer, Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences,
University of Edinburgh
Publications
Books and Edited Journal Collections:
Submitted and Under Review
- 2006 Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
Voicing Modernity: Education, Underemployment and Young Men in India Manuscript completed, under review
at University of California Press.
- 2006 Craig Jeffrey and Colin McFarlane "Everyday Cosmopolitanism in a Global
Perspective" Special Issue under review at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Books and Edited Journals Collections:
Published
- 2005 Craig Jeffrey and Linda McDowell "Youth in a Comparative Perspective:
Global Change, Local Lives" Special issue of Youth and Society 36(2)
Articles in Refereed Journals:
Submitted and Under Review
- 2006 Craig Jeffrey "Caste, class and the everyday cosmopolitan: the politics of
being worldly in modern North India" Submitted to Environment and Planning D: Society and Space
Articles in Refereed Journals:
Published
- 2005 Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery "Reproducing Difference?
Schooling, Jobs and Empowerment in Uttar Pradesh, India" World Development 33(12): 2085-2101
- 2005 Craig Jeffrey, Roger Jeffrey and Patricia Jeffery "When Schooling Fails:
Young Men, Education and Low Caste Politics in North India" Contributions to Indian Sociology 39, 1-38.
- 2005 Craig Jeffrey, "How to Ignore Corruption: Reporting the Shortcomings of
Development in Southern Africa: A Reply" Current Anthropology 46(1): 114-115
- 2004 Craig Jeffrey and Linda McDowell "Youth in a Comparative Perspective:
Global Change, Local Lives" Youth and Society 36(2): 131-142.
- 2004 Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery " A Useless Thing! or
Nectar of the Gods ? The Cultural Production of Education and Young Men s Struggles for Respect in Liberalizing
North India" Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94 (4), 961-981.
- 2004 Craig Jeffrey, Roger Jeffrey and Patricia Jeffery "Degrees Without Freedom:
Assessing the Social and Economic Impact of Formal Education on Dalit Young Men in North India" Development and
Change 35 (5): 963-986.
- 2004 Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey "Islamisation, Gentrification
and Domestication: a Girls Islamic Course and Rural Muslims in Western Uttar Pradesh" Modern Asian
Studies38 (1): 1-52.
- 2003 Craig Jeffrey "Bridging the Gulf: Reflections on Organising a Teachers
Conference in Edinburgh, UK" Journal of Geography in Higher Education 27 (2), 201-216.
- 2002 Craig Jeffrey "Caste, Class and Clientelism: a Political Economy of Everyday Corruption
in Rural North India" Economic Geography 78 (1), 21-42.
- 2001 Roger Jeffery, Craig Jeffrey and Patricia Jeffery "Social and Political
Dominance in Western UP: a Response to Sudha Pai" Contributions to Indian Sociology 35 (2), 213-236.
- 2001 Craig Jeffrey "A Fist is Stronger the Five Fingers: Caste and Dominance in Rural
North India" Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 25 (2), 1-30.
- 2000 Craig Jeffrey "Democratisation without Representation? The Power and Political
Strategies of a Rural Elite in North India" Political Geography 19, 1013-1036.
- 2000 Craig Jeffrey and Jens Lerche "Stating the Difference: State, Discourse and Class
Reproduction in Uttar Pradesh, India" Development and Change 31 (4) 857-878.
- 1997 Craig Jeffrey "Richer Farmers and Agrarian Change in Meerut District, Uttar
Pradesh, India" Environment and Planning A 29, 2113-2127.
Articles in Books
- 2006 Craig Jeffrey "Foreword" in Childhoods in South Asia edited by
D.K. Behera. Oxford: Pearson Education Limited. Forthcoming.
- 2006 Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery "Zamir" in Mukulika
Bannerjee (ed.) Muslim Portraits. New Delhi: Penguin. In press
- 2006 Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey "Afrozi" in Mukulika
Bannerjee (ed.) Muslim Portraits. New Delhi: Penguin. In press
- 2006 Craig Jeffrey, Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery "Urbane Geographies:
Education, Unemployment and Gender in Rural Uttar Pradesh" in Stuart Corbridge, Satish Kumar and Saraswati
Raju (ed.s) Colonial and Postcolonial Geographies of India. New Delhi: Sage.
- 2006 Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey "The First Madrasah:
Learned Mawlaw+s and the Educated Mother", in Jan-Peter Hartung and H. Reifeld (eds): Islamic Education,
Diversity and National Identity: D+n+ Madris in India Post 9/11 New Delhi: Sage pp. 227-251
- 2005 Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey "Patterns and Discourses of
the Privatisation of Secondary Schooling in Bijnor, UP", in Joachim Psterheld and Krishna Kumar (ed.s):
Education in Modern South Asia. New Delhi: Sage.
- 2005 Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey "The Mother s Lap and the
Civilising Mission: Madrasah Education and Rural Muslim girls in Western Uttar Pradesh" Zoya Hasan and
Ritu Menon (ed.s): The Diversity of Muslim Women s Lives in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
- 2004 Roger Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery and Craig Jeffrey "Social Inequality and the
Privatisation of Secondary Schooling in North India", in Radhika Chopra and Patricia Jeffery (ed.s):
Educational Regimes in Contemporary India. Sage: New Delhi. Pages 256-275.
- 2004 Craig Jeffrey, Roger Jeffrey and Patricia Jeffery "Broken Trajectories:
Dalit Young Men and Formal Education" in Radhika Chopra and Patricia Jeffery (ed.s): Values in Contemporary
Education
- 2003 Craig Jeffrey "Soft States, Hard Bargains: Rich Farmers, Class Reproduction
and the Local State in Rural North India" in Jens Lerche and Roger Jeffery (ed.s) Social and Political
Change in Uttar Pradesh: European Perspectives. New Dehli: Manohar. Pages 225-246.
- 2001 Craig Jeffrey "A Fist is Stronger than Five Fingers: Caste and Dominance
in Rural North India" in Robert Bradnock and Glyn Williams (ed.s) South Asia in a Globalising World:
a Reconstructed Regional Geography. Harlow, Essex: Pearson Education (revised version published in Transactions of
the Institute of British Geographers). Pages 205-228.
- 2001 Craig Jeffrey and Jens Lerche, "Dimensions of Dominance: the State and
Class Reproduction in Uttar Pradesh, India" in Chris Fuller and Veronique Benei (ed.s) The Everyday State
in Modern India, London: Hurst and Company (revised version of an article published in Development and Change).
Pages 91-114.
- 1999 Craig Jeffrey Dictionary definitions of "Border/Borderlands,"
"Categories/Categorical", "Deterritorialisation", "Third Space", "Travelling Theory",
"The West/Westernization" in Linda McDowell and Joanne Sharp (ed.s) A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography.
London: Arnold. Pages 20-21, 27, 55-56, 274-275, 281-282, 292-293.
Book Reviews
- A review of "Entanglements of Power: Geographies of Dominance/Resistance" Joanne Sharp, Paul Routledge,
Chris Philo and Ronan Paddison (ed.s) 2002 Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92 (2) 352-353.
- A review of "Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India" A. Gupta 2001
Progress in Human Geography 25 (2) 324-325.
- A review of "Democracy, Development and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India"
A. Varshney 2000 Progress in Human Geography 24 (1) 169-170.
- A review of "The Rise of Network Society" M. Castells 1999 International Journal for Urban and
Regional Research 25 (2) 397-398.
- A review of "Peasant Moorings: Village Ties and Mobility Rationales in South India"
Jean Luc Racine (ed.) 1999 Journal of Rural Studies 15 (2) 229-230.
Interviews
- "Education in North India" Interview with Mike Wooldridge on the BBC World Service. March 2001.
- "Election Fever" Interview with BBC World Service India office. August 1997.
Other Publications
- 2005 with Sandra Baxter, Institute of Development Studies, Dalit schooling in India
on id21 development database, http://www.id21.org/education/e2cj1g1.html
- 2003 with Tom Armitage "Uncertain Transitions: Youth in a Comparative Perspective"
website http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/~cjj/youth.html
- 2003 with Tom Armitage "Household Strategies, Schooling Regimes and Social Exclusion
in Western Uttar Pradesh, India" website http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/upproject/
Research Grants
- 2006 Global Futures Institute of Transnational Studies, University of Washington, $1700
[with Ann Anagnost, Andrea Arai and Lisa Hoffman]
- 2005 Internationalizing Education Grant, Office of Undergraduate Education,
University of Washington, $3,000
- 2004-2005 Principal Investigator "Democracy, Higher Education and Youth Cultures:
Student Politics in North India." Economic and Social Research Council £45,443.
- 2004 Principal Investigator "The Politics of GM Food in India" Carnegie Trust £1,180.
- 2003 Principal Investigator "Education and the Social Strategies of Untouchable Young Men"
Carnegie Trust £1,360.
- 2001 Co-Principal Investigator with Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery "Muslim Girls
Education in India" Ford Foundation £2,500.
- 2000-2002 Co-Principal Investigator, with Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery "Household
Strategies, Schooling Regimes and Social Exclusion in Western UP" Economic and Social Research Council £177,256.
- 2000-2001 Principal Investigator "Reimagining Corruption in India: Public-Sector
Recruitment and Social Inequality." HSBC Holdings Small Research Grant Award administered by Royal Geographical
Society with the Institute of British Geographers £1,400.
Professional Meetings
Convened
- 2006 "Comparative Geographies of Youth Insecurity" Association of American
Geographers Annual Conference, Chicago, USA This consists of four separate paper sessions and a discussion panel.
- 2005 with Jane Dyson "The Politics of Youth in South Asia", at the 34th Annual Conference
on South Asia, Wisconsin - Madison University, USA. Speakers included Manuela Ciotti, Roger Jeffery and Filippo Osella.
- 2005 with Colin McFarlane "Rethinking Cosmopolitan Identities" Association of American
Geographers Annual Conference, Denver, USA. Speakers included Alexander Jeffrey and Eleonore Kofman.
- 2003 with Susan Smith and Donna Easterlow "Spaces of Inequalities: an Interdisciplinary
Research Workshop" Part of the Society, Space and Environment Initiative, University of Edinburgh.
- 2003 with Linda McDowell "Uncertain Transitions: Youth in a Comparative Perspective
An Interdisciplinary Symposium" Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK. Sponsored by the
Economic and Social Research Council, Moray Endowment Fund and Developing Areas Research Group of the Royal
Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers. Speakers included Thomas Blom Hansen, Gill
Valentine, Ann Phoenix, Rob MacDonald and Harriet Bradley.
- 2003 with Jane Jacobs "Postgraduate Conference in Geography" Institute of Geography,
University of Edinburgh.
- 2000 Panel "Working the Fields: the Organising Practices of Rural South Asians" 16th
European Conference on Modern Asian Studies, Edinburgh.
- 2000 "Teachers Conference" Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh.
- 1998 "Soft States, Hard Bargains: Governance, Corruption and Institutions in the
Third World: an Inter-disciplinary Workshop" Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Sponsored by the
Developing Areas Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers. Speakers
included Barbara Harriss-White, Bhaskar Vira, Jens Lerche and Sarah Radcliffe.
Presentations
- 2005 "Making Do in Meerut: Student Politics in North India" in the "The Politics
of Youth in South Asia" panel session at the 34th Annual Conference on South Asia, Wisconsin - Madison University,
USA.
- 2005 "World Apart: Cosmopolitan Identities and Student Politics in North India" in
"Rethinking Cosmopolitan Identities" Panel Session at the Association of American Geographers Annual
Conference, Denver, USA.
- 2005 Discussant for panel session on "Geographies of Education" at the Association
of American Geographers Annual Conference, Denver, USA.
- 2004 "A Useless Thing or Nectar of the Gods? The cultural production of Education in north
India" presented at the Institute of British Geographers and Royal Geographical Society Conference, Glasgow, UK
- 2003 "When schooling fails: schooling, jobs and empowerment in north India" presented
at the 32nd Annual Conference on South Asia, Wisconsin - Madison University, USA.
- 2003 "Degrees without freedom: assessing the social and economic impact of formal education
on Dalit young men in north India" at the Values in Contemporary Education Conference, Neemrana Fort, Rajasthan,
sponsored by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Economic and Social Research Council.
- 2002 "From textbook to timepass: education and unemployment in rural north India"
presented at the 17th European Conference on Modern South Asian Studies, Heidelberg, Germany.
- 2002 "Timepass cultures: education and unemployment in the lives of young men in rural
Uttar Pradesh." South Asian Anthropologists Group, Edinburgh.
- 2000 "Grin revolution: corruption and sugar cane marketing in rural north India"
paper presented on the panel "working the fields: the organising practices of rural South Asians"
16th European Conference on Modern Asian Studies, Edinburgh.
- 2000 "What is sifareesh and why is it important? Class reproduction and the local state
in India" presented at the Institute of British Geographers and Royal Geographical Society Conference, University
of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
- 1999 "A teacher s day for Geographers" presented at the Scottish Association of
Geography Teachers Annual Conference, Dynamic Earth Centre, Edinburgh.
- 1998 "Money, power and class in north India" presented on the Uttar Pradesh 2000
Panel of the 15th European Conference of Modern Asian Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 1998 "Soft states, hard bargains: class and corruption in the north Indian countryside"
presented at the Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, USA.
- 1998 "Conflict, complicity and setting: richer farmers and the Indian state" presented
at the Institute of British Geographers and Royal Geographical Society Conference, Kingston, UK.
- 1995 "Fieldwork strategy in north India" presented at Ph.D. training course, "The
spatial dimensions of development interactions between the local, national and global" University of Copenhagen,
Denmark.
Invited Lectures and Presentations
- 2006 "Masculinity on a shoestring: the cultural production of education in India"
South Asia Seminar Series, Cornell University, USA
- 2006 "Unravelling Development: The Cultural Production of the Educated Person in Modern
North India" SACPAN annual conference, Vancouver, Canada
- 2005 "Education and inequality in India" Presentation to the Department of Geography
Visiting Committee, University of Washington, Seattle, USA
- 2005 "Polarization: an Indian perspective" Washington State Council for Education, Edmonds
High School, Seattle, USA
- 2005 "Waiting for Work: Schooling, Youth and Power in India" Department of Geography,
University of Washington Colloquium series, Seattle, USA
- 2005 "The Cultural Politics of Making Do : Education, Jobs and Power in India," Seminar
Series, Department of Geography, University of Durham, UK
- 2005 "Young Blood: Student Politics in Meerut, North India" Special Seminar, Institute
of Economic Growth, Delhi, India.
- 2005 "Between Two Worlds: Student Politics and Cosmopolitan Styles in India"
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Sociology Colloquium Series. Delhi University, India.
- 2004 "Politics and polish: The cultural production of education in India" presented
at the Ethnographies of the Political Workshop, Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, USA.
- 2004 "A Useless Thing or Nectar of the Gods? The cultural production of Education in north
India" presented at the Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi, India
- 2004 "The politics of education in north India" presented at the Department of
Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
- 2003 "When schooling fails: schooling, jobs and empowerment in north India" presented
at Political Science Seminar Series, Duke University, USA.
- 2003 "Reproducing difference under liberalization: education and empowerment in north India"
presented at Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2003 "Why working class kids get working class jobs in north India" presented at the
Department of Geography, University of Dundee, UK.
- 2003 "Research ethics" presented at the University of Edinburgh Expeditions Committee
Seminar, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2003 "Pierre Bourdieu in India" presented at a Summer Workshop meeting, Institute of
Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 2002 "Household strategies, schooling regimes and social exclusion: a report on work in
progress" with Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery at the Department of Sociology, Delhi University, India.
- 2002 "An introduction to South Asia" presented to the HELP organisation, University
of Edinburgh, UK
- 2001 " Kaun banega mazdur? Schooling and the reproduction of social difference in rural
Bijnor: preliminary thoughts on work in progress" presented with Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery at the
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India.
- 2001 " Even dogs don t approach the empty-handed : social capital and young men s search
for secure employment in rural Bijnor" presented at The politics of cultural mobilisation workshop , convened
by the Political Studies Association South Asia Group, University of Bristol, UK.
- 2001 "The local state in India" guest lecture at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi,
India.
- 2000 "Incredible or inedible: the great GM food debate" presented at the Edinburgh
International Science Festival, Edinburgh, UK
- 2000 "Bob Business" presented at the Beath and Newbattle scheme workshops, University
of Edinburgh, UK
- 1999 "Dimensions of dominance: the state and class reproduction in Uttar Pradesh,
India" presented at the Anthropology of the state workshop, London School of Economics and Political Science,
London, UK.
- 1999 "The wandering men: in search of naukri in north India" Seminar series, Department
of Geography, University of Edinburgh, UK
- 1999 " He became cheeky so we punched out his teeth : class and corruption in rural north
India" Geography Society Seminar Series, Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham, UK.
- 1999 "Rich farmers, agrarian change and the local state in India" Centre for South
Asian Studies Seminar Series, University of Cambridge, UK.
- 1998 "Class power in the north Indian countryside" Queen Elizabeth House Seminar
Series, University of Oxford, UK.
- 1997 "Agrarian change in north India" Four lectures convened as part of a South Asia
undergraduate course at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK.
- 1996 "Agricultural developments in Meerut district, UP" Presentation to undergraduate
students at the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK.
- 1996 "Rethinking nature : grottoes in the eighteenth century landscape garden"
presented to the Purchas Society, St. John s College, University of Cambridge, UK.
- 1995 "Sublime to the ridiculous: garden grottoes in the English landscape gardening
movement" Postgraduate Seminar Series, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, UK.
Teaching
University of Washington
Geography 270
Topics include development theory, sustainable development, participatory development, post-development, agrarian
change in North India, Genetically modified crops, the politics of development, critical development geographies
Fall Quarter 2005
In student evaluations, course as a whole ranked at 4.6 (with an adjusted median of 4.8), instructor s input
Advising
Graduate Students Committee: Jeff Masse (Geography 2005), Tapoja Chaudhry (Anthropology 2005-), Matt Bunt
(South Asian Studies 2005-), Rowan Ellis (Geography 2005-), Gregory Simon (Geography 2005-) Phelps Feeley
(Anthropology 2005-)
Graduate Student Chair: Annie Bartos (Geography 2005-)
Rachel Heilman (South Asian Studies 2005-)
University of Edinburgh
Courses
Undergraduate
Geography 1
Topics: critical development theory; agrarian change in the global South; global environmental transformations;
new geographies of food production; spaces of consumption.
Autumn Term 1999
Autumn Term 2002
Autumn Term 2003
Individual ranking for my instructor s input unavailable, but consistently received exceptionally good informal
feedback and peer evaluations.
South Asia
Topics: the political economy of India; caste, class and power; agrarian change and the environment; geographies
of education and employment.
Spring Term 2000
Spring Term 2003
Ranked at 3.7 and 3.8 on a scale of 1 to 4 in student evaluations
Philosophy of Geography
Topics: post-development theory, capabilities approaches, development ethics.
Spring Term 2000
Spring Term 2003
South Asian Studies
Topics: caste, class and power in north India.
Spring Term 2000
Spring Term 2003
Graduate
Frontiers 1
Topics: Research design and methodologies in Geography.
Autumn Term 2002
Autumn Term 2003
Frontiers 2
Topics: Nature/culture debates in human geography, including actor-network theory, political ecology and
global environmental change.
Spring Term 2003
Advising
Graduate Students
2005 Alexis Peters M. Sc. by Research First supervisor
Title: Young women's social relationships in north Indian universities
2000 Anna Lake, M.Sc. by Research. Second supervisor
Title: Environmental regulation in Brazil: the case of protected areas
Undergraduate
Supervised eighteen extended undergraduate dissertations (1999-2000, 2002-2003, 2003-2004)
Professional Activities and Service
Extramural
Associate Managing Editor of Journal of Peace and Democracy in South Asia. 2003-2004.
External examiner for Kuheli Mookeree s Ph.D. thesis: Re-placing home: Displacement and Resettlement
in India s Narmada Valley Dam Project , Department of Geography, University College London, 2003
Review work for the Economic and Social Research Council, 2003
Contributed to Global Youth programme proposal for the Economic and Social Research Council, 2003.
Review work for Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2005, 2006), Contemporary South Asia
(2005), Economic Geography (2004), Gender Place and Culture (2004, 2005), Geoforum (2000, 2005), Journal of
Peace and Democracy in South Asia (2003), Journal of Urban and Regional Research (2000), Political Geography
(2003, 2004), World Development (2005)
Member of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers: Developing Areas Research Group
and Political Geography Research Group.
Member of the Association of American Geographers.
University of Washington
2005-2006 Awards coordinator for the Department of Geography
2005-6 Member of the Fellowships Committee, South Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies
2005-6 Member of the MA Curriculum Committee, South Asia Center , Jackson School of International Studies
2005-6 Member of the Fieldwork Committee, South Asia Center, Jackson School of International Studies
2005 Reviewer for the Royalty Research Fund Faculty Grant
University of Edinburgh
2003-4 Member of University of Edinburgh Expeditions Committee
2003-4 Member of Geography Curriculum Review Committee
2003-4 Director of Studies for 64 students
2003-4 Founder and Chair of Early Career Geographers Group
2003 Member of interview panel for three research studentships in Geography
2003 Internal Examiner for M.Sc. by Research thesis, Innes Keighren A Scot of the Antarctic: the reception
and commemoration of William Speirs Bruce , Institute of Geography, University of Edinburgh
2003 Internal Examiner for M.Sc. by Research thesis, Sophie Carver Powerful Tool or Puppet of the Powerful?
The Politics of GIS in Development Policy: the Case of Tsetse Eradication , Institute of Geography, University
of Edinburgh
2003 Member of interview panel for two posts in Geography
2002-4 Convenor of Frontiers in Geography course
2002-3 Director of Studies for 76 students
1999-2004 Member of the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh
1999-2000 Staff representative on the Postgraduate Affairs Committee
1999-2000 Department of Geography Student Liaison Officer
1998-1999 with Bela Bhatia, Chair of Cambridge South Asia Network
Academic Awards and Distinctions
- 2006 Nominated for the University of Washington s Distinguished Teaching Award
- 2000 Professional Certificate in University Teaching, University of Edinburgh
- 1995-99 Economic and Social Research Council Studentship
- 1995 Smuts Memorial Fund Fieldwork Grant
- 1995 Starred First Class (distinction) in Geography
- 1995 Trinity Hall Board of Governors Prize for Outstanding Academic Achievement
- 1995 Vaughan-Lewis Undergraduate Geography Dissertation prize
- 1994-5 Bateman Scholar, Cambridge University