Bio

Joshua Muldavin, PhD, University of California-Berkeley. Professor of Geography and Asian Studies, Sarah Lawrence College. I am currently on sabbatical working on a book manuscript — ‘China’s Rise and Global Integration: The Environmental and Social Impacts’. Current research is on global resource acquisitions and development conflicts via China’s and Japan’s capital and aid flows to Africa, Latin America, and South/Southeast Asia. Thirty years of field research, primarily in rural China as well as the greater Himalayan Region.