Visiting Assistant Professor, Dr. Kathryn (Katie) Tanner will be teaching a graduate level seminar in the Fall 2009 semester, entitled “Gender and Environment”. Katie is a CES alum (class of 2000), who worked with Caroline Karp on topics of international environmental policy (focusing on Madagascar) as an undergraduate. Since graduation, Katie has worked as a Fulbright Fellow (Madagascar 2000/1) and Tanzania Program Coordinator for the GSC project of Earth Island Institute (2001/2). In 2002, Katie started her M.Phil. & Ph.D. programs at the University of Cambridge in the Department of Geography and Darwin College, where she was an active participant in the Political Ecology of Development research group. More recently, Katie was a Visiting Assistant Professor in environment & development geography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York (2006-8). Currently, she is a research fellow in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge and a research associate at Darwin College. For more information, please see her current website: http://www.ppsis.cam.ac.uk/soc/staff/ktanner.htm