Geography & GIS
2032 Natural History Building
MC-150
Urbana, IL 61801

(217) 333-1880

Professor Tom Bassett has taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1984. He was born in Lowell, Massachusetts and graduated from the Brooks School in N. Andover, Mass (1972). Bassett has a B.A. degree in English from Tufts University (1976), and a M.A. degree (1979) and PhD degree (1984) in Geography from the University of California at Berkeley. He has published 8 books and some 60 journal articles on his research.

Bassett's research centers on the political ecology of agrarian change in West Africa. Since 1981 he has carried out research on land rights system, the social and agricultural history of cotton, and land use and land cover change in the West African savanna with emphasis on Côte d’Ivoire. He also writes on the history of cartography of Africa.

Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
M.A., University of California-Berkeley
B.A., English, Tufts University

GEOG 101 - Global Development & Environment
GEOG 412 - Geospatial Technologies and Society
GEOG 520 - Political Ecology