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Reflections on a Four-phase Career:

Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN, March 2018

 

• Autobiographical Annotations: Tribute to My Professors

• Public Eulogy of Note: Prof. Allan Pred, University of California, Berkeley

• Public Eulogy of Note: Prof. David Hooson, University of California, Berkeley

Below, I cite names of my peers during the years I was at Berkeley.

In Green are my peers during the five years of my doctoral studies under Prof. Allan Pred, Advisor.

Prof. Michael Watts served as my Advisor while Prof. Allan Pred was on Sabbatical, a major supporter and a well wisher, his optimism in the Academic sphere had touched the life of many students.

The three signatures on my doctoral dissertation, are:

• Prof. Allan Pred [died in 2007 at 70]
• Prof. Richard Walker, and
• Prof. John Freeman in the Business School [died in 2008 at 63]

List of PhD Dissertations @Geography, University of California Berkeley, 1980 – 1985.

1985

Beck, Joanna Eunice. “Environmental Determinism in Twentieth Century American Geography: Reflections in Professional Journals.” (Laney College, Oakland, California)

1984

Hale, George Robert. “Reassessment of the Death Valley-Colorado River Overflow Hypothesis in Light of New Evidence.” (Oakland, CA)

Nelson, Kristin Louise. “Back Offices and Female Labor Markets: Office Suburbanization in the San Francisco Bay Area.” (Berkeley, CA)

Bassett, Thomas Joseph. “Food, Peasantry and the State in the Northern Ivory Coast: 1898-1982.” (Department of Geography, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois)

Godfrey, Brian John. “Inner-City Neighborhoods in Transition: The Morphogensis of San Francisco’s Ethnic and Nonconformist Communities.” (Department of Geography, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York)

Marburg, Sandra Lin. “Man’s Role, Woman’s Place: Images of Women in Human Geography.” (Oakland, CA)

1983

Christopherson, Susan Marie. “Family and Class in the New Industrial City.” [Ciudad Juarez, Mexico] (Department of City Planning, Cornell University) [Died 12/2014]

Groth, Paul Erling. “The Evolution and Exclusion of Hotels, Boarding Houses, Rooming Houses, and Lodging Houses in American Cities, 1880-1930.” (Department of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, California) Murphy, Michael Edward. “Irrigation in the Bajio Region of Colonial Mexico.” (San Francisco, California)

Priestaf, Iris Gail. “Sacramento River Seepage: alternative mitigating measures.” (D.K. Todd Consulting Engineering, Berkeley, California)

Bassin, Mark. “A Russian Mississippi? A Political-Geographical Inquiry into the Vision of Russia on the Pacific, 1840-1865.” (Department of Geography, University College, London, England)

Harms, Richard William. “Cirques of the Marble Mountains, Northwestern California.” (Bethesda, MD)

Heiman, Michael Kenneth. “Regional Planning and Land Use Reform for Conservation and Development in New York State.”  Department of Environmental Studies, Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA)

Lev-Ari, Aviva. “Corporate Growth and Locational Interdependence: Observations on the Production, Location, Merger Activity and Organizational Structure of American Paper Companies.”

Professional Career post UC, Berkeley:

• SRI, Int’l, 1985-1988,
• AMDAHL Corporation, 1988-1989
• MDSS, 1991-1994
• MITRE Corporation, Bedford, MA, 1995-1997,
• PSC, 1997-2001,
• McGraw-Hill, 2002-2003,
• LPBI Group – 2012 – Present

See,

• Data Science is the Greatest Science !!!!! It is the Greatest Science for Women, as well
• Reflections on a Four-phase Career: Aviva Lev-Ari, PhD, RN, March 2018
• e-Scientific Publishing: The Competitive Advantage of a Powerhouse for Curation of Scientific Findings and Methodology Development for e-Scientific Publishing – LPBI Group, A Case in Point
• 2018 CV

 

1982

Michaelsen, Joel Christian. “Large-Scale, Long Period Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in the North Pacific Region.” (Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, California)

Savage, Victor Roger. “Western Cognition of Nature and Landscape in Southeast Asia.” (Department of Geography, University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore)

Yagasaki, Noritaka. “Ethnic Cooperativism and Immigrant Agriculture: a study of Japanese floriculture and truck farming in California.” (Department of Geography, University of Yokohama, Japan)

Hecht, Susanna Bettina. “Cattle Ranching Development in the Eastern Amazon: evaluation of a development policy.” (School of Public Policy and Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, California)

Storper, Michael Charles. “The Spatial Division of Labor: technology, the labor process, and the location of industries.” (School of Public Policy and Planning, University of California, Los Angeles, California)

1981

Kooser, Jaime Claire. “Regulation and System Interdependence: effects of the siting of California electrical energy facilities.”

Lewis, Nancy Davis. “Ciguatera, Health, and Human Adaptation in the Island Pacific.” (Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii)

Liebman, Ellen. “The Evolution of Large Agricultural Landholdings in California.” (Richmond, CA)

1980

Fish, Merle Gerald, Jr. “EL CULTIVO DE ROZA: shifting cultivation in a dry forest of northwest Mexico.” (Department of Biology, Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina)

Henderson, Krimhilde Trescher. “Farm and Forest on the Dorrigo: a historical-ecological study of land use conflict in northern New South Wales.” (7 Banvard Place, Chapman, A.C.T. 2611, Australia)

Lochhead, Elspeth Nora. “The Emergence of Academic Geography in Britain in its Historical Context.” (PIEDA [Planning, Econ and Devel. Consultants] 52 Queens Rd, Reading, UK)

SOURCE

Geography at Berkeley – PAST DISSERTATIONS – PRE-2000

http://geography.berkeley.edu/graduate-studies/past-dissertations-pre-2000/