Co-leader (with Asuncion Lera St. Clair) of the WUN Critical Global Poverty Studies Research group; Past-President of the Association of American Geographers (AAG); Member of the Committee on Geographical Sciences, U.S. National Academy of Sciences; former Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, and Editor of Progress in Human Geography.  Her work is concerned with the social and economic effects of global economic restructuring in the Americas and with articulating critical alternative conceptions of processes of impoverishment.  Recent publications include: Making Development Geography. (Hodder Arnold UK, 2007).  Special forum section in the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, titled ‘Geographies of Fear and Hope’ 97(2).  She has recent and forthcoming publications in the following refereed journals Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Antipode, Social and Cultural Geography and the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography.