Dr. Kate A. Berry

University of Nevada , Reno
Department of Geography
Mackay Science Rm. 302
Reno , NV 89557
Tel: (775) 784-6344
Fax: (775) 784-1058
Email: kberry@unr.edu
Curriculum Vitæ

Research Statement
Dr. Berry works within the geographic tradition of human-environment interactions. She has experience in the analysis of water policy, with an emphasis on research about intergovernmental relations in water conflicts and examinations of the cultural and political dimensions of water conflicts and policy. She has worked extensively on indigenous resources issues, including tribal and Native Hawaiian water issues. Her projects have also focused on other contemporary indigenous issues as well as geographic dimensions of race, ethnicity, and indigenousness. She employs a variety of methods in her projects, including textual and visual analyses of contemporary and historical records; field methods; interviews and surveys; and both qualitative and quantitative analytical methods. She has worked in the western U.S, Latin America , and the Pacific.

Research Areas of Interest
Analysis of water law and intergovernmental relations in water conflicts; cultural politics of water issues; indigenous geographies; ethnic geographies.

Dr. Berry is presently the President of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers.

Professional Preparation
Northern Arizona University - Forestry & Natural Resources B.S. 1980
Colorado State University - Watershed Management M.S. 1985
University of Colorado , Boulder - Geography Ph.D. 1993

Courses Taught
GEOG 200 World Regional Geography
GEOG 325 Research Methods
GEOG 418 Geographic Thought
GEOG 400/600 International Issues in Water Development
GEOG 438/638 Western Water Resources and Management
GEOG 460/660 Ethnic Geography
GEOG 464/664 Race, Gender, and the Environment
GEOG 476/676 Latin America
GEOG 700 History and Nature of Geography
GEOG 701 Graduate Seminars on various topics

Selected Publications

Kate A. Berry, Zoltan Grossman and Homana Pawiki (2006), “Native Americans,” In: Contemporary Ethnic Geographies of America , edited by Ines M. Miyares and Christopher A. Airriess, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers: 51-70.

Kate A. Berry (2006), “Water in the Life of American Indians,” In: Velka Kniha O Vode ( Great Book of Water) , edited by Josip Kleczek, Academia Press, (Czech Academy of Sciences) published in Czech.

Kate A. Berry (2005) “Changing Narratives of Water Control in O`ahu, Hawai`i ,” In: History of Water, Volume 3: The World of Water , edited by T. Tvedt and T. Ostigaard , London , England : I.B. Tauris: 38-48.

Robert Rundstrom, Douglas Deur, Kate Berry , and Dick Winchell (2004) “American Indian Geography” In: Geography in America at the Dawn of the 21 st Century , 2nd edition, edited by Gary Gaile and Cort Wilmott, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press: 600-615.

Kate A. Berry and Melissa A. Rinehart (2003) “A Legacy of Forced Migration: The Removal of the Miami Tribe in 1846,” International Journal of Population Geography 9(2): 93-112.

Kate A. Berry and Martha L. Henderson (2002), editor of Geographical Identities of Ethnic America : Race, Place, and Space. Reno , NV : University of Nevada Press.

Kate A. Berry and Nancy L. Markee (2002) “Agriculture and Water Decision-Making by County Boards in the Western United States ,” Water Resources Impact 4(2): 27-32.

Melissa A. Rinehart and Kate A. Berry (2002) “Kansas and the Exodus of the Miami Tribe,” In: The Tribes and the States: Geographies of Intergovernmental Interaction , edited by B. Bays and E.H. Fouberg, Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Press.

Kate A. Berry (2002) “The Ahupua`a and Water Allocation in Hawai`i: A Study of Cultural Values and Water Law,” In: Proceedings of the Conference on Allocating and Managing Water for a Sustainable Future , University of Colorado Natural Resources Law Center.

R. Denise Blanchard-Boehm, Kate A. Berry, and Pamela S. Showalter (2001) “Should Flood Insurance be Mandatory? Insights in the Wake of the 1997 New Year's Day Flood in Reno-Sparks, Nevada ,” Applied Geography 21(3): 199-221.

Kate A. Berry (2000) guest editor of special issue on “Water Issues in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands” Volume 40, no. 4, Natural Resources Journal .

Kate A. Berry (2000) “Water Use and Cultural Conflict in 19 th Century Northwestern New Spain and Mexico ,” N atural Resources Journal 40(4): 759-781.

Robert Rundstrom, Douglas Deur, Kate Berry , and Dick Winchell (2000) “Recent Geographical Research on Indians and Inuits in the United States and Canada ,” American Indian Research and Culture Journal vol. 24(2): 85-110.

Kate A. Berry, Nancy L. Markee, Nanci Fowler and Gary R. Giewat (2000) “Interpreting What is Rural and Urban for Western U.S. Counties,” Professional Geographer 52(1): 93-105.