Brad D. Jokisch
Office Hours
By appointment
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Education
Ph.D., Clark University, 1998
Research
- Cultural/political ecology agriculture
- Population
- Migration
- Latin America
My research interests lie at the nexus of population, environment, and development, mostly in Latin America. I am most interested in how migration and other population changes affect the environment, and in turn how development affects population change.
My research in the Ecuadoran Andes has focused on land-use/cover change and the impact of transnational migration on landscapes and livelihoods. I followed Ecuadoran migrants to Spain (and metro New York) and conducted research in Ecuador’s Upper Amazon on demographic change and health among Shuar.
I supervise graduate students on numerous environmental and migration related topics, and I am very involved in Latin American Studies, Development Studies, and to a lesser extent, Environmental Studies.
Courses Taught
- Population Geography (3210/5210): every year
- Geography of Latin America (3350/5350): every year
- Introduction to Human Geography (1200): every year
- Agricultural Ecosystems (3440/5440): every other year
- Seminar on Population/Migration and Development: every other year
Representative publications
2019 Jokisch, BD.; Radel, C, Carte, L, Schmook, B. “Migration matters: the importance of migration for contemporary human-environment geography,” Geography Compass. e12460.* pp: (17) https://doi.org/10.1111/gec3.12460
2019 Radel, C.; Jokisch, B., Birgit Schmook, Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Kathleen Hermans, Lindsey Carte, Karl Zimmerer, and Stephen Aldrich, “Migration and displacement as features of land system transitions,” Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability. 38 June: 103-110.* https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2019.05.007
2015 McSweeney, Kendra, Jokisch, Brad D. “Native Amazonians’ Strategic Urbanization: Shaping Territorial Possibilities through Cities” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology. 20(1): 1-21.
2014 Jokisch, Brad D. “Ecuador: From Mass Emigration to Return Migration?” Migration Information Source, The Online Journal of the Migration Policy Institute Washington D.C.
2011 Jokisch, Brad D. McSweeney, Kendra “Assessing the Potential of Indigenous-Run Demographic/Health Surveys: the 2005 Shuar Survey, Ecuador,” Human Ecology. 39(5):683- 698.
2009 Jokisch, Brad D. “Making a Traditional Study Abroad Program Geographic: A Theoretically informed Regional Approach,” Journal of Geography. 108: 105-111.