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Personal profile
Office Address
Geography & GIS
2032 Natural History Building
MC-150
Urbana, IL 61801
Office Phone
(217) 333-1880
Personal profile
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.
Research Interests
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.
Education
Ph.D., University of California-Berkeley
M.A., University of California-Berkeley
B.A., English, Tufts University
Teaching
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Bringing to Scale: The Scaling-Up Concept in African Agricultural Value Chains
Bassett, T. J., Koné, M. & Munro, W., Mar 2022, In: African Studies Review. 65, 1, p. 66-92 27 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Lost in Translation: Pro-Poor Development in The Green Revolution for Africa
Bassett, T. J. & Munro, W., Mar 1 2022, In: African Studies Review. 65, 1, p. 8-15 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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Standardizing No Net Loss Stream Mitigation Assessment Methods: Tradeoffs between Expediency and River Science
Peimer, A. W., Rhoads, B. L. & Bassett, T. J., Dec 2022, In: Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 58, 6, p. 1407-1420 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Limits of the New Green Revolution for Africa: Reconceptualising gendered agricultural value chains
Gengenbach, H., Schurman, R. A., Bassett, T. J., Munro, W. A. & Moseley, W. G., Jun 2018, In: Geographical Journal. 184, 2, p. 208-214 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review
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Power Relations and Upgrading in the Cashew Value Chain of Côte d'Ivoire
Bassett, T. J., Koné, M. & Pavlovic, N. R., Sep 2018, In: Development and Change. 49, 5, p. 1223-1247 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Honors & Recognition
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James M. Blaut Award
Bassett, T. J. (Recipient) & Winter-Nelson, A. E. (Recipient), 2011
Prize: Prize/Award