Leslie Gray
Associate Professor, Executive Director
Office Location: 874 Lafayette St. Rm. 203
Phone: (408) 551-7054
Email: lcgray@scu.edu
Ph.D., University of Illinois
Curriculum Vitae
Teaching and Research Vision
Leslie Gray is a geographer who teaches classes that emphasize global environment, development and population issues. Her current research considers the environmental and equity dimensions surrounding global cotton production, focusing on how the agricultural subsidies given to farmers in wealthy countries affect poor farmers in West Africa. She has published articles on environmental policy, land degradation, and women's access to resources in Burkina Faso and Sudan. This research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Fulbright/IIE and the Social Science Research Council. She has also done work for several international organizations, including CARE, Catholic Relief Services, UNDP, ILO and the World Bank.
Teaching
ENVS 147: Third World Environment and Development
ENVS 50: World Geography
POLI 130: Global Environmental Politics
POLI 146: Politics of African Development
Representative Publications
Gray, L., & Moseley, W. (2008). "Hanging by a Thread? The Future of Cotton in Africa," in Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa, Moseley, W., & Gray, Leslie., editors. Ohio University Press.
Gray, L. (2008). Cotton Production in Burkina Faso: "International Rhetoric vs. Local Realities," in Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa, Mosley, W., & Gray, L., editors, Ohio University Press.
Gray, Leslie C. Forthcoming, March 2005. What Kind of Intensification?: Agricultural Practice, Soil Fertility and Socioeconomic Differentiation in Rural Burkina Faso. Geographical Journal.
Gray, Leslie C. Decentralization, Land Policy, and the Politics of Scale in Burkina Faso, forthcoming in 2005, in Globalization and Geographies of Conservation, edited by Karl Zimmerer, Columbia University Press.
Gray, Leslie C. and Philippe Morant. 2003. Reconciling Local Perception with Scientific Assessment of Soil Quality Changes in Southern Burkina Faso, Geoderma, 111: 425-437.
Gray, Leslie C. 2002. Environmental Policy, Land Rights and Conflict: Rethinking Community Natural Resource Management Programs in Burkina Faso, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vol 20(2): 167-182.
Gray, Leslie C. 2003. Investing in Soil Quality: Farmer Responses to Land Scarcity in Southwestern Burkina Faso, in African Savannas: New Perspectives on the Environment and Social Change, Bassett, T and Crummey, D (eds.). UK: James Curry and USA: Heinemann.
Gray, Leslie C. and Michael Kevane. 2001. Evolving Tenure Rights and Agricultural Intensification in Southwestern Burkina Faso (with Michael Kevane), World Development, Vol. 29(4): 573-587.
Gray, Leslie C. 1999. Is Land being Degraded?: A Multi-Scale Examination of Landscape Change in Southwestern Burkina Faso, Land Degradation and Development, Vol. 10: 329-343.
Gray, Leslie and Michael Kevane. 1999. Diminished Access and Diverted Exclusion: Women and Land in Africa, African Studies Review, Vol. 42:2:15-39.
Kevane, Michael and Leslie Gray. 1999. A Woman’s Field is Made at Night: Gendered Land Rights and Norms in Burkina Faso, Feminist Economics, Vol. 5(3): 1-27.
