Afton Clarke-Sather 

　　(formerly Sather-Knutsen)
　　Department of Geography of University of Delaware
　　223 Pearson Hall, Newark DE 19716
　　302-831-2344 Office · 302-384-0732 Mobile

　　afton@udel.edu

Education

　　2012   Ph.D. in Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO Subfields: Political Ecology, Political Geography, and Geography of China         

　　2007   M.S.  in Environmental Policy, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI                                                  

　　2004   B.A. in Politics with Honors in Major Study, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA  

Appointments　　  

    2012-Present Assistant Professor, Dept. of Geogra phy, University of Delaware, Newark, DE.
    2009-2010 Visiting Scholar, Scientific Information Center for Environment and Resources,Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China
    2009-2011 Instructor, Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
    2007-2012 Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO　  

Peer Reviewed Publication　　  

    Clarke-Sather, A. (in review) State Power and Domestic Water Provision in Semi-arid Northwest China: Towards an Aleatory Political Ecology Political Geography
    Clarke-Sather, A. (in review). Hydrosocial Governance and Agricultural Development in Semi-Arid Northwest China. In Negotiating Water Governance: Why the politics of scale matter. Ed. E. Norman, C. Cook, and A. Cohen. London: Ashgate.
    Clarke-Sather, A. 2012 “State development and the rescaling of agricultural hydrosocial governance in semi-arid Northwest China.” Water Alternatives 5 (1) pp 98-188.
    Clarke-Sather, A. and B. Solomon. 2012.“Grantocracy: Conservation grant-making and the territorialization of neoliberalism in Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula.” Geoforum 43 (1) pp. 68-80.

Professional Service

　　2014 Reviewer for Energy Policy
　　2013 Reviewer for Energy Policy, Energy Efficiency
　　2013 Panelist for National Science Foundation, Directorate of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences
　　2012 Reviewer for Water Alternatives