Academic Background

BA (Trent), MA (York), PhD (Cornell)

Biography

My main research interests are in international political economy, Japanese politics, the political economy of East and Southeast Asia, environmental politics, the history of capitalism, and the political economy of land and agriculture. I am willing to supervise graduate students interested in any of these themes.

I am currently working on three main research projects: a comparative historical study of land and property in East and Southeast Asia, a study of certification and regulation in the global shrimp and salmon aquaculture sectors (with Dr. Peter Vandergeest of York University), and an analysis of food traceability in Japan.

I hold a cross-appointment to the Balsillie School of International Affairs.

I am on sabbatical for the 2009-10 academic year as an S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup Visiting Research Fellow in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the University of California, Berkeley.

Selected Publications (for a fuller list, see the link to the left):

“Japanese Lessons and Transnational Forces: ODA and the Environment” in David Leheny and Kay Warren, Japanese Aid and the Construction of Global Development: Inescapable Solutions. London and New York: Routledge, 2009, 163-82. (Forthcoming.)

“The 2008 World Development Report and the Political Economy of Southeast Asian Agriculture”, Journal of Peasant Studies 36(3), July 2009, 615-21. (Forthcoming).

“Pollution Export as State and Corporate Strategy: Japan in the 1970s”, Review of International Political Economy 16(2), May 2009, 260-83.

“Regional Shrimp, Global Trees, Chinese Vegetables: The Environment in Japan-Asia Relations” in Peter J. Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi (eds), Beyond Japan: East Asian Regionalism. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006, 188-210.

“Smallholders and the Spread of Capitalism in Rural Southeast Asia”, Asia Pacific Viewpoint 45(3), December 2004, 401-14.

“Explaining the Diversity of Southeast Asian Shrimp Aquaculture”, Journal of Agrarian Change 4(3), July 2004, 315-35.

“Japanese Spirit, Western Economics: The Continuing Salience of Economic Nationalism in Japan”, New Political Economy 9(1), March 2004, 79-99.