CEWS Profile: Garth Myers

Garth Myers earned a PhD in Geography (1993) from UCLA with an allied concentration in Urban Planning. His MA (UCLA, 1986) is in African Area Studies, and he earned a BA with Honors in History from Bowdoin College (1984). Myers has conducted research on African development and urban planning for more than two decades. His record includes more than thirty publications, including the books, Verandahs of Power: Colonialism and Space in Urban Africa (Syracuse, 2003) and Disposable Cities: Garbage, Governance and Sustainable Development in Urban Africa (Ashgate, 2003), and articles in journals such as the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Geographical Review, Area, Urban Studies, Political Geography, and the Journal of Modern African Studies. He has earned research grants from the National Science Foundation, Fulbright, National Geographic Society, and other agencies in the past decade.