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Contact Information

Coble Hall 131
801 S. Wright St.
Champaign, IL 61820
Mail Code MC-442

Office Hours

Fall 2025
Teaching: Thurs 12:30 to 2:30pm
Advising: Fri 10 to 11:45am
Teaching Associate Professor

Biography

I am a human-environment geographer who studies the relationships between land and people. My most recent project focused on land tenure, gender and authority in the Mountain Kingdom of Lesotho. I am currently working on a project that explores the ways in which the landscapes of post-colonial Africa -- both literal and metaphorical landscapes -- have been shaped by the development industry. 

In the Global Studies program, I teach courses on International Development, Global Poverty, and Markets and Society, among others. 

Research Interests

Wealth and Poverty
Land tenure
Gender and Development
International Development
Climate change adaptation

Additional Campus Affiliations

Teaching Associate Professor, Global Studies Programs and Courses
Teaching Associate Professor, Center for Global Studies
Teaching Associate Professor, Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity
Teaching Associate Professor, Center for African Studies
Affiliate, Geography and Geographic Information Science

Recent Publications

Aerni-Flessner, J., Fogelman, C., & Mokoena-Mokhali, N. (2023). Historical Dictionary of Lesotho. (3 ed.) (Historical Dictionaries of Africa). Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

Murphy, C., & Fogelman, C. (2021). Gender, Structural Inequality and Just Governance. In U. E. Chigbu (Ed.), Land Governance and Gender: The Tenure-Gender Nexus in Land Management and Land Policy (pp. 15-22). CABI International. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781789247664.0002

Fogelman, C. (2018). Development by dispossession: the post-2000 development agenda and land rights in Lesotho. African Geographical Review, 37(3), 257-272. https://doi.org/10.1080/19376812.2017.1284006

Fogelman, C. J. (2018). Vulnerability after “the end of famine”: Political ecology, development, and deconcentrated starvation. Political Geography, 62, 196-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polgeo.2017.09.006

Fogelman, C., & Bassett, T. J. (2017). Mapping for investability: Remaking land and maps in Lesotho. Geoforum, 82, 252-258. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2016.07.008

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