Michael Steinberg

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-5942 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: mstein5@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Louisiana State University 1999.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Cultural and Political Ecology
Endangered Species
Biogeography and Conservation of Crop-Plant Diversity
Land Cover Changes
Latin America
American South
West Africa
Peace Studies in Indigenous Landscapes

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:
Cultural and Physical Expositions: Geographic Studies in the Southern U.S. & Middle America. 2002. Co-edited with P. Hudson. Geoscience and Man 36. Geoscience Publications. ISBN 0938909061.

Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes. Co-edited with J.J. Hobbs, and K. Mathewson. Oxford University Press. 2004. ISBN 0195143191.

Bottomland Ghost: The Southern Obsession with the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. University of Georgia Press. Expected in late 2004.

Journal Articles and Chapters:
Steinberg, M.K. and M. Taylor (in press). Public memory and political power: competing views of the past in Guatemala's post-conflict landscape. Geographical Review.

Steinberg, M.K. 2004. The marijuana milpa: globalization of an indigenous landscape. In Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes. Edited by M.K. Steinberg, J.J. Hobbs, and K. Mathewson. Oxford University Press.

Mathewson, K.M. and M.K. Steinberg. 2003. Geographic dimensions of drugs and terrorism: contexts, cases, and connections, with Kent Mathewson. In The Geographical Dimensions of Terrorism: A Research Agenda for the Discipline, Routledge Press. Pp. 59-66.

Steinberg, M.K. 2002. The second conquest: religious change and the erosion of the cultural ecological core among the Mopan Maya. The Journal of Cultural Geography, 20 (1):91-105.

Steinberg, M.K. and M. Taylor 2002. The impact of cultural change and political turmoil on maize culture and diversity in highland Guatemala. Mountain Research and Development, 22 (4):344-351.

Steinberg, M.K. 2002. The globalization of a ceremonial tree: the case of cacao (Theobroma cacao) among the Mopan Maya. Economic Botany 56(1):58-65.