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Elizabeth Chacko

Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs
Program Director, Dean's Scholars in Globalization

1957 E Street, NW Suite 512

Washington, D.C. 20052

Phone: (202) 994-5328
Fax: (202) 994-2484
E-mail: echacko@gwu.edu

Education:

Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

Expertise:

Medical geography, development, immigration, urban ethnic communities and South Asia

Background:

Professor Chacko received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in geography from the University of Calcutta in India. She also obtained a graduate degree in Public Health and a Ph.D. in geography from UCLA. Dr. Chacko has taught geography at various institutions including Loreto College in Calcutta, UCLA in Los Angeles, and the George Washington University. She is especially interested in the health and gender dimensions of development and has conducted research in these areas in India and the United States. Her current research focuses on the use of cultural and social capital in community development and on ethnic imaging and the creation of ethnic space in U.S. cities.

Professor Chacko's publications include: Contemporary World Regional Geography, with M. Bradshaw, G. White and J. Dymond, 2nd Ed. (Dubuque: McGraw-Hill, 2007); "Understanding the Geography of Pellagra in the United States: the Role of Social and Place-based Identities," in Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography (Vol 12, No. 2, 2005); "Positionality and Praxis: Fieldwork Experiences in Rural India," in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography (Vol. 25, No. 1, 2004); "Identity and Assimilation Among Young Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Washington," in The Geographical Review (Vol. 93, No. 4, 2003); "Ethiopian Ethos and the Creation of Ethnic Places in the Washington Metropolitan Area," in the Journal of Cultural Geography (Vol. 20, No. 2, 2003); and "Culture and Therapy: Complementary Strategies for the Treatment of Type-2 Diabetes in an Urban setting in Kerala, India," in Social Science and Medicine (Vol. 56, No. 5, 2003).

Courses Taught:

Geog 127 Population Geography
Geog 165 Geography of South Asia
Geog 180 Cities in a Globalizing World
Geog 223 Seminar: Population and Health
Geog 250 Regional Development

Last update: 01.22.07