Harold Thomas
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MUEP Program |
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Education: |
Sustainable Development, MA. School for International Training. Brattleboro, Vermont Spanish, BA. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona Liberal Studies, BA. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona |
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Research Interests: |
Disaster preparedness, spatial analysis, democritization of natural resource management, indigenous knowledge |
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Research Activities: |
I completed my Sustainable Development MA Capstone on the links between patriarchy and natural resource management from data collected through interviews with Burmese refugees along the Thai-Burma border in 2007. |
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Publications: |
Counter-Hegemony as a Tool for Political Defiance in the Burmese Environmental Movement: A Neo Gramscian Approach, 2008 |
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Courses Taught: |
Business Spanish. Chiang Mai, University. Chiang Mai, Thailand Natural Resource Management. School for Shan State Nationalities Youth. Chiang Mai, Thailand Ecology. School for Shan State Nationalities Youth. Chiang Mai, Thailand Community Development. School for Shan State Nationalities Youth. Chiang Mai, Thailand. |
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Professional Experience: |
I moved back to the USA a year and a half ago from Thailand where I was collaborating on several environmental and human rights projects, including: an anti-gas pipeline campaign, buddhist and muslim reconcilitaion workshops and advocacy for Burmese refugees. . When I returned I worked as an anti-violence educator and crisis advocate in Tucson, Arizona. Lastly, I worked on economic development programs for the Carribean and Central America via the Organization of American States in Washington, D.C. |
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Community Outreach: |
Anti-violence programming, Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault. Tucson, Arizona |