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Judith Carney

Prof. Dr. Judith Carney

Carson Fellow

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Judith Carney is professor of geography at UCLA. Her research centers on African ecology and development, food security, gender and agrarian change, and African contributions to New World environmental history. She is the author of nearly 100 scholarly articles and two books: Black Rice: The African Origins of Rice Cultivation in the Americas (Harvard University Press, 2001) and In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World (University of California Press, 2009), for which she was awarded the Melville Herskovits Book Award, and the Frederick Douglass Book Prize respectively. Carney has received numerous professional honors, including being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2017, and being made a fellow of the Association of American Geographers in 2018. Her research has been supported by the National Geographic Society and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, among others. Collaboration with geneticists and plant scientists resulted in two articles published in Nature. Her current research focuses on human use of West African mangrove ecosystems in the context of climate change and conservation initiatives. This forms part of a projected book on the environmental history of mangroves in the Black Atlantic.

RCC Research Project: Mangroves: Habitat of African Survival in the Atlantic World

Lunchtime Colloquium Video - Mangroves: Habitat of African Survival in the Atlantic World


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