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Thomas Park

Associate Research Anthropologist | Member of the Graduate Faculty | Professor, Anthropology | Associate Professor, Near Eastern Studies | Associate Professor, Arid Lands Resources Sciences - GIDP

School of Anthropology

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Research

Grants(4)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program
2017·$0 / $90.4K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
international education, dissertation research, fulbright program, cross-cultural exchange, global research collaboration
Contesting Participatory Governance: Social Movements, Service Access, and Citizenship in Cape Town's Informal Settlements
2013·$20K·
External
Principal Investigator (PI)
governance, social movements, service access, citizenship, informal settlements
Rumor, Disease and Behavior: Aids and Buruli Ulcer in Benin
2010·$4.8K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
infectious diseases, public health, social behavior, rumor spreading, epidemiology
"Desertification" or "Greening"? Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability: Case Studies in Mauritania and Senegal
2008·$140K / $400K·
External
Co-Investigator (COI)
desertification, climate variability, human-environment relationships, greening, case studies

Publications(20)

Recent

RiVan Winkle and the Pluriverse

2020

literary analysis, fictional worlds, time travel, fantasy literature, altered realities

Social Transformations and West African Forms of Slavery

2010

Development of Sampling Procedures Based Upon Satellite Derived Land Cover History for the NSF Digital African Cities Project

2003

Research on Urbanization in the Developing World: New Directions

2003

Urbanization Past and Future

2003

The Six Cities Project: developing a methodology of surveying densely populated areas using social science assisted and diachronic remote sensing based classiﬁcation of habitation

2003

SOURCES FOR THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY OF RURAL MOROCCO

2001

Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco by Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. 166 pages, map, endnotes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin rsquo;s Press, 1999. 49.95 Cloth) ISBN 0-312-21152-X

2000

Historical Dictionary of Morocco

1998

Moroccan Migration and Mercantile Money

1992

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Thomas Park

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Timothy Finan

Mamadou Baro

Ivy Pike

Stefanie Herrmann

Elizabeth Oglesby

Grants(4)

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program

Contesting Participatory Governance: Social Movements, Service Access, and Citizenship in Cape Town's Informal Settlements

Rumor, Disease and Behavior: Aids and Buruli Ulcer in Benin

"Desertification" or "Greening"? Human-Environment Relationships in the Face of Climate Variability: Case Studies in Mauritania and Senegal

Publications(20)

RiVan Winkle and the Pluriverse

Social Transformations and West African Forms of Slavery

Development of Sampling Procedures Based Upon Satellite Derived Land Cover History for the NSF Digital African Cities Project

Research on Urbanization in the Developing World: New Directions

Urbanization Past and Future

The Six Cities Project: developing a methodology of surveying densely populated areas using social science assisted and diachronic remote sensing based classiﬁcation of habitation

SOURCES FOR THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC STUDY OF RURAL MOROCCO

Serving the Master: Slavery and Society in Nineteenth-Century Morocco by Mohammed Ennaji. Translated by Seth Graebner. 166 pages, map, endnotes, bibliography, index. New York: St. Martin rsquo;s Press, 1999. 49.95 Cloth) ISBN 0-312-21152-X

Historical Dictionary of Morocco

Moroccan Migration and Mercantile Money