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BARBARA LOUISE ENDEMAÑO WALKER

Associate Project Scientist
Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-3576

Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences
Office of Research
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
(805) 893-3576


EDUCATION


1998 Ph.D. Geography, University of California at Berkeley
1994 M.A. Geography, University of California at Berkeley
1990 B.A. Anthropology, Minor in African Studies, University of California at Los Angeles
1988-1989 UC Education Abroad Program, University of Nairobi, Kenya

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

2006 - present

Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Office of Research, University of California at Santa Barbara
2006-present Associate Project Scientist, Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California at Santa Barbara
2000-2006 Assistant Research Geographer, National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, University of California at Santa Barbara
2002-present Lecturer, Department of Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
1998-2000 Post-Doctoral Researcher, the Institute for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Research, University of California at Santa Barbara
1992-1996 Graduate Student Instructor, University of California at Berkeley (Departments of Geography, History, and Political Economy of Industrial Societies)
1992 Graduate Student Researcher, University of California at Berkeley (Departments of Conservation and Resource Studies and Environmental Design)

RESEARCH GRANTS

2003 UC MEXUS Travel Grant. Entitled: "Livelihood and Migration Strategies of Mexican Fisherpeople in California, USA and Baja California, México" ($1,500).
2002-2006 National Science Foundation ADVANCE Fellows Award (SBR-0137458). Entitled: "Mapping Marine Space: Marine-Protected Areas, Geographic Information Science, and Civil Society" ($383,141).
2001-2003 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Grant; Initiative on Population, Consumption and the Environment; Program on Global Security and Sustainability (Grant # 00-65195-GSS). Entitled: "Balancing Conservation, Subsistence, and Economic Growth in French Polynesia's Lagoons" ($210,000).
1999-2000 National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA), Public Participation GIS Seed Grant. Co-PI Paul McNab, Department of Geography, St. Mary's College, Nova Scotia. Entitled: "Mapping Marine Space: The Effects of GIS on Small-Scale Fishing Communities and Fisheries Degradation" ($3,000).
1998-2000 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social, Economic, and Behavioral Sciences (SBR-9806256). Entitled: "Catching the Wave of Capitalism in the Wake of the Nuclear Age: Gender and Political Ecology in Moorea, French Polynesia" ($80,000).
1996-1999 UC Berkeley Institute for International Studies/MacArthur Foundation Program on Multilateral Governance Workshop Grant, 1996-1999. For meetings of the UCB Working Group on the Political Ecology of Marine Resources, and the "Conference on Multilateral Ocean Governance and the Globalization of Marine Resources" at UCB ($12,000).
1998 UC Berkeley Humanities Social Science Research Grant ($3,000).
1997 UC Berkeley Dean's Social Science Research Grant ($2,500).
1995-1996 National Science Foundation Dissertation Improvement Grant (SBE-9506062) ($12,500).

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND HONORS

2000 Association of American Geographers Nystrom Dissertation Competition Finalist.
1997-1998 UC Berkeley Graduate Division Dissertation Award Fellowship ($16,000, tuition, and fees).
1997-1998 Carl Sauer Memorial Fellowship ($5,000).
1997 UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research Fund Award ($3,000).
1996-1997 UC Berkeley Graduate Division Dissertation Award Fellowship ($16,000, tuition, and fees).
1995-1996 UC Berkeley Institute for International Studies Simpson Fellowship ($5,000).
1995 U.S. Department of Education Title VI Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. (To study Fanti Twi at the University of Florida) ($3,500).
1994-1995 UC Berkeley Mentored Research Award for Minority Graduate Students ($13,000, tuition, and fees).
1993-1994 Social Science Research Council International Predissertation Fellowship ($31,000).
1993 Social Science Research Council Africa Program Summer Predissertation Fellowship ($3,000, declined).

PUBLICATIONS

Walker, B.L.E. and M. Robinson. forthcoming 2008. "Economic Development, Marine Protected Areas, and Gendered Access to Fishing Resources in a Polynesian Lagoon," Gender, Place, and Culture.

Robinson, M., Miller, C., Hoeflinger, C., and Walker, B. 2005. "Problems and Recommendations for Using GIS to Improve Decision-Making in California's Channel Islands Marine Reserves," MPA News 7(5): 4-5.

Walker, B.L.E. 2002. "Engendering Ghana's Seascape: Fanti Fishtraders and Marine Property in Colonial History," Society and Natural Resources 15(5):389-407.

Walker, B.L.E. 2001. "Mapping Moorea's Lagoons: Conflicts over Marine Protected Areas in French Polynesia," Proceedings of the Inaugural Pacific Regional Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Common Property, Brisbane, Australia, September 2-4, 2001 (http://dlc.dlib.indiana.edu/archive/00001047/).

Walker, B.L.E. 2001. "Sisterhood and Seine-Nets: Engendering Development and Conservation in Ghana's Marine Fishery." The Professional Geographer 53(2): 160-177.

Walker, B.L.E. 1998. Sisterhood and Seine-Nets: Engendering the Development, Science, and Conservation of Ghana's Marine Fishery. Ph.D. Dissertation. Berkeley: Department of Geography, University of California.

Walker, B.L.E. 1998. "Review of Stock, R. Africa South of the Sahara" in Environment and Planning A 30(3):560-561.

Walker, B.L.E. 1998. "Fisheries, African" in Afropaedia. Cambridge: Microsoft Encarta Africana, Microsoft Corporation. http://encarta.msn.com/africana/home2.asp.

Walker, B.L.E. 1997. "Production Systems: Fishing" in Middleton, John, ed. Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 504-508.

Walker, B.L.E. 1997. "Côte d'Ivoire: Geography and Economy" in Middleton, John, ed. Encyclopedia of Sub-Saharan Africa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 372-375.

INVITED AND PEER-REVIEWED PAPER PRESENTATIONS

"Woman with Mango, Woman with Fish: Gender and Development in Moorea, French Polynesia," Department of Geography Colloquium, University of Hawaii, March 3, 2004.

"Marine Protected Areas and Multilateral Governance: Participation and Politics in Moorea, French Polynesia," Department of Geography Colloquium, University of Hawaii, December 4, 2003.

"The Politics of Participation in PPGIS: Mapping Marine Protected Areas in French Polynesia," Department of Geography Colloquium, University of California at Santa Barbara, May 22, 2003

"Mapping Moorea's Lagoon: Understanding The Effects of the Plan de Gestion de l'Espace Maritime (PGEM)" (with Eric G. Edlund), International Coral Reef Workshop: Restoring and Sustaining Diversity of Tropical Pacific Coral Reef Fish Communities, Moorea, French Polynesia, April 2-6, 2002

"Mapping Moorea's Lagoon: Marine Protected Areas and the Politics of Place in French Polynesia," Nicholas School of the Environment Marine Laboratory, Duke University, February 11, 2002

"Mapping Moorea's Lagoons: Conflicts over Marine Protected Areas in French Polynesia," International Association for the Study of Common Property Pacific Regional Meeting, Brisbane, Australia, September 2-4, 2001

"Public Participation in Designing Marine Protected Areas in Moorea, French Polynesia," Second Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology, San Francisco, CA, June 21-26, 2001

"Sisterhood and Seine-Nets: Engendering Development and Conservation in Ghana's Marine Fishery," Nystrom Dissertation Competition, The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Pittsburgh, PA, April 5-8, 2000

"Dividing and Conquering the Sea: The Colonial History of Marine Fishing and Property Rights in Ghana," The Conference on Marine Environmental Politics in the 21st Century, MacArthur Program on Multilateral Governance, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, April 30-May 2, 1999

"Catching the Wave of Capitalism in the Wake of the Nuclear Age," NCGIA Specialist Meeting on Empowerment, Marginalization, and Public Participation GIS, Santa Barbara, CA, October 14-17, 1998

"Engendering Environmental Science," Department of Geography, University of California at Los Angeles, May 18, 1998

"Sisterhood, Seine-Nets and Starkist: The Gender Dimensions of Legal and Environmental Change in Ghana's Marine Fishery," The Conference on Gender, Power, and Difference in African Societies, James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, June 6, 1997

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

"Differential Access to Marine Resources and the Inequitable Nature of Marine Protected Areas in Moorea, French Polynesia," The Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Meeting, Portland, OR, September 17-20, 2003

"The Politics of Mapping Marine Protected Areas in the Pacific," The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March 2002

"Contentious Social and Physical Geographies in the Establishment of Marine Protected Areas in the Pacific," The Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Meeting, Santa Barbara, CA, September 12-15, 2001

"Engendering the Lagoon in French Polynesia," The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Honolulu, HI, March 1999

"Woman with Mango, Women Without Fish: Engendering Development in Moorea," The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA, March 1998

SERVICE

Grant Reviewer for the National Science Foundation (Geography and Regional Sciences and Office of Polar Programs), and The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation.

Manuscript Reviewer for The Professional Geographer; Gender, Place and Culture; and Coastal Management Journal.

Invited Participant, Regional MPA Social Science Research Workshop: Pacific Islands, convened by the NOAA Marine Protected Areas Center, Institute for Marine Protected Areas Science. Waikoloa, HI, April 2004.

Session Organizer and Chair, "GIS and Marine Environmental Management in the Pacific," Annual Meeting of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Portland, OR, September 2003.

Invited Participant, Channel Islands Marine Protected Areas Socioeconomic and Biological Monitoring Workshop, convened by the NOAA Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary. UC Santa Barbara, March 2003.

Invited Participant, Marine Protected Areas Social Science Workshop, convened by the NOAA Marine Protected Areas Center, Institute for Marine Protected Areas Science. Monterey, CA, April 2002.

Session Organizer and Chair (with Dawn Wright), "GIS in Support of Marine Protected Areas," The Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA, March, 2002.

Committee on Affirmative Action, UC Santa Barbara Academic Senate, 2001-2002.

Rapporteur, Specialist Meeting on Inequality and Equity, The Center for Spatially-Integrated Social Science (CSISS), University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, November 2000.

Conference Organizer and Chair, "Conference on Multilateral Ocean Governance and the Globalization of Marine Resources", UC Berkeley, April 1999, (http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/macarthur/marine/).

Leader, Working Group on the Political Ecology of Marine Resources, UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies/MacArthur Foundation Program on Multilateral Governance, 1996-99.

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