1999 Tulane International Development Seminar Series


Tulane Institute for International Development (TIID) in association with
the Former Soviet Union/Eastern European Roundtable of the Society for
International Development (SID) invite you to:

"The Capitalist Transition in Central Europe: The Emergence and Growth of
Rural Entrepreneurs in Hungary"

Speaker:
Professor Janet Momsen, University of California at Davis

About the Speaker:
Janet Momsen was educated at Oxford and McGill Universities and the London
School of Economics and has degrees in geography and agricultural
economics.She is presently Professor of Geography in the department of Human
and Community Development at the University of California, Davis. She has
taught at King's College, University of London, Leeds and Newcastle upon
Tyne Universities, UK, Calgary university, Canada, the Federal University of
Rio de Janeiro(Brazil) and the Interamerican Institute for Agricultural
Sciences, Turrialba, Costa Rica. She is a Board member of the Association of
Women in Development (AWID).

Her research interests focus on gender and agricultural development. She
has carried out field research in Costa Rica, Brazil, the Caribbean, Mexico,
China and Hungary.Her publications include Women and development in the
Third World (1991), A Geography of Brazilian Development (1976), Geography
of gender and development (1987), Land and labor in the Caribbean (1988),
Different Places, Different Voices(1993), and Women and change in the
Caribbean (1993).