He holds a BA in Anthropology from Portland State University and a PhD in Cultural Studies, Political Economy, and Spatial Analysis from the University of California, Berkeley.
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His most significant recent publications are: Recasting Culture and Space in Iberian Contexts (co-edited with Sharon R. Roseman), SUNY Press, 2009; Identity and Contexts of Regional Identification: Institutional Stages, Interregional Relations and Images of Regional Gender in the Alto Douro of Northern Portugal, Antropológicas 9, 2005; Where is Portuguese Agriculture Headed? An Analysis of the Common Agricultural Policy, Institute of European Studies Publications (University of California, Berkeley), 2002. His book, Solemn, Sweet Region: A Spatial Ethnography of the Social Imagination in Portugal is forthcoming from Lexington Books.