Antoinette M.G.A. WinklerPrins
Associate Professor of Geography
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On leave from MSU 2010-2012
Biography: At the University of Michigan I was one of the last Geography majors in 1983. I proceeded immediately to Urban Planning, obtaining a M.U.P. in 1985 with a specialization in International Development. After graduating in 1985 I tried out the real world and worked a number of jobs, including being the Bicycle Coordinator for the City of Ann Arbor, an Associate at Community Systems Foundation, a Regional Planner in Connecticut, and a manager of a Williams-Sonoma store. After a cross-country bicycle trip in 1989, I recommitted to the academy and have been there since. I chose the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and proceeded with coursework for a master's and then a Ph.D. in Geography with a minor in Soil Science. My dissertation was completed in 1999 under Karl S. Zimmerer and is entitled, Between the Floods: Soils and Agriculture on the Lower Amazon Floodplain, Brazil.Research Interests: My research interests sit at the intersection of human and physical geography. My training at the undergraduate level was in urban geography, but at the Ph.D. level gravitated more toward physical, especially soil geography and geomorphology. My minor was soil science (pedology). I describe myself as a cultural/ political/historical ecologist working on issues of landscape transformation and changing livelihoods. I am most interested in how people have and continue to transform their landscapes as they continually adapt and adjust both themselves and their environment to changing socio-economic circumstances.
E-mail: antoinet@msu.edu Office: |