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Professor Michael Watts, Distinguished Geographer, to Lecture on Oil and Africa
Posted: March 28, 2007
Dr. Kairn Klieman of the University of Houston Department of History and the Houston Area African Studies Group (HAASG), will host Professor Michael Watts, Director of African Studies, Chair of Development Studies, and Class of 1963 Chair at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Watts will present a talk on "Rethinking the Resource Curse: Oil Insurgency and Conflict in the Niger Delta." The lecture will be held on 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 29, 2007, in Room 103 SEC, at the University of Houston. His research has focused on development issues such as food security, resource development and land reform in Africa, South Asia, and Vietnam. Over the last twenty years he has written extensively on the oil industry in West Africa and the Gulf of Guinea. He is currently completing a book on the natural and social history of oil in Nigeria entitled "Black Gold: Oil, Nation, and
Violence in Nigeria." The author of 8 books and over 100 articles, he
has received numerous awards and fellowships (Social Science Research
Council, MacArthur Foundation, National Science Foundation, Guggenheim
Foundation). Watts was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2003, and was awarded the
Victoria Medal by the Royal Geographic Society in 2004.
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