Teaching Associate, Ph.D. Student
Department of Geography and Regional Development
University of Arizona

M.A. Geography, 2004 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
B.A. International Studies, 1997 Ohio University, Athens, OH

Phone: (520) 621-2904
FAX: (520) 621-2889
E-mail: kmbishop@email.arizona.edu
Office: 424 Harvill Building
Mailing Address:
Box 210076 Box 2
Tucson, AZ 85721-0076 USA

My research takes a political ecology approach to examining relationships between households livelihood strategies and health. I work in rural South African households affected by HIV and AIDS and am interested in how land access mitigates the effects of sickness in these rural areas, as well as how such changes impact household relations.

I have also studied the history of plantation forestry in South Africa. I have examined how afforestation in Mpumalanga Province historically was conducted in part, through forced removals of native Africans from their land. This, in turn, created a new, cheap, labor force of displaced people. The impacts of these processes can be seen in the current geography in parts of Mpumalanga Province today.