Bret Wallach (February 5, 1943) is an American cultural

geographer A geographer is a physical scientist, social scientist or humanist whose area of study is geography, the study of Earth's natural environment and human society, including how society and nature interacts. The Greek prefix "geo" means "earth" a ...

, and professor at

University of Oklahoma , mottoeng = "For the benefit of the Citizen and the State" , type = Public research university , established = , academic_affiliations = , endowment = $2.7billion (2021) , pr ...

. He graduated from

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

with an A.B. in 1964, M.A. in 1966, and Ph.D. in 1968. He taught at the

University of Victoria The University of Victoria (UVic or Victoria) is a public research university located in the municipalities of Oak Bay and Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The university traces its roots to Victoria College, the first post-secondary insti ...

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania. Founded in 1855 as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, Penn State becam ...

University of California, Riverside The University of California, Riverside (UCR or UC Riverside) is a public land-grant research university in Riverside, California. It is one of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The main campus sits on in a suburban dist ...

, and

University of Maine at Fort Kent The University of Maine at Fort Kent (UMaine Fort Kent or UMFK) (French: ''Université du Maine à Fort Kent)'' is a public college in Fort Kent, Maine. It is the northernmost campus of the University of Maine System. It is an academic center ...

Awards

* 1984

MacArthur Fellows Program The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and commonly but unofficially known as the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation typically to between 20 and 30 indi ...

Works

''Understanding the Cultural Landscape''
New York: the Guilford Press, 2004. *''Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development'', Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1996. *''At Odds with Progress: Americans and Conservation''. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1991.

References

External links

"Bret Wallach", ''Google Scholar''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wallach, Bret American geographers Living people University of Oklahoma faculty University of California, Berkeley alumni MacArthur Fellows Cultural geographers Academic staff of the University of Victoria Pennsylvania State University faculty University of California, Riverside faculty University of Maine at Fort Kent faculty 1943 births