Dr. Elizabeth Chacko (Chair)

Associate Professor
of Geography & International Affairs

Ph.D. (UCLA)

Office: 232-1922 F Street, NW
Telephone: 202-994-5328
Fax: 202-994-2484
Email: echacko@gwu.edu

Interests

Racial, national and ethnic identity formation among immigrants

The creation of ethnic spaces by immigrant communities

Linkages between transnationalism and development

South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa

Courses Taught

GEOG 127 - Population Geography
GEOG 165 - Geography of South Asia
GEOG 223 - Population and Health
GEOG 801 - Cities in a Globalizing World

Books

Essentials in World Regional Geography. 2008. Michael Bradshaw, George White, Joseph Dymond and Elizabeth Chacko. McGraw-Hill Publishers.

Contemporary World Regional Geography. 2007. Bradshaw, M., White, G., Dymond, J., Chacko, E. 2nd Ed. Dubuque: McGraw-Hill.
 

Chapters in Books

Chacko, E. 2009. “Africans in Washington , D.C: Ethiopian Ethnic Institutions and Immigrant Adjustment” in The Neo-African Diaspora in the United States and Canada at the Dawn of the 21 st Century. Edited by J.W. Frazier, J. T. Darden and N. F. Henry. Global Academic Publishing. Binghamton , NY . Pp.243-256.

Chacko, Elizabeth. 2008. “ Washington: From bi-racial city to multiethnic gateway” in Migrants to the Metropolis: The Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities Marie Price and Lisa Benton-Short (editors). Syracuse University Press, pp. 203-225.

Chacko, Elizabeth. 2006. Immigrants from the Muslim World: Lebanese and Iranians. In I. Miyares and C. Airriess (editors), Contemporary Ethnic Geographies in America . Rowman and Littlefield. Pp.313-330.

Chacko, E . and Cheung, I. 2006. The formation of a contemporary ethnic enclave: the case of ‘Little Ethiopia' in Los Angeles . In Race, Ethnicity and Place in a Changing America . John.S. Frazier and Eugene. Tettey-Fio (editors), Binghamton , New York : Global Academic Publishing. Pp. 131-139

 

Journal Articles

Chacko, Elizabeth. (2007). From brain drain to brain gain: reverse migration to Bangalore and Hyderabad , India 's globalizing hightech cities. GeoJournal 68:131-140.

Chacko, Elizabeth. (2005). Understanding the Geography of Pellagra in the United States: the Role of Social and Place-based Identities. Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography. 12(2): 197-212.

Chacko, Elizabeth. (2004) Positionality and Praxis: Fieldwork Experiences in Rural India. Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 25(1): 51-63.

Chacko, Elizabeth. (2003). Identity and Assimilation Among Young Ethiopian Immigrants in Metropolitan Washington. The Geographical Review 93(4): 491-506.

Chacko, Elizabeth (2003) Ethiopian Ethos and the Creation of Ethnic Places in the Washington Metropolitan Area. Journal of Cultural Geography 20 (2): 21-42.

Chacko, Elizabeth (2003) Culture and Therapy: Complementary Strategies for the Treatment of Type-2 Diabetes in an Urban setting in Kerala, India. Social Science and Medicine 56(5): 1087-1098.

Chacko, Elizabeth (2003) Marriage, Development and the Status of Women in Kerala. Gender and Development. Special Marriage Issue 11 (2): 52-59.

Chacko.Elizabeth (2001) Women's use of contraception in rural India: A village-level study. Health and Place 7(3): 197-208.

Grants

Ford Foundation Grant:  2008-2009. Leadership Institute on Creative Responses to Global Climate Change in Vietnam.  The project is a collaboration between ESIA - PISA & SIGUR Center and the Department of Geography.

GWU-CIBER. 2008-2009. Funding for project titled “Transnational Washington: Immigrant entrepreneurship and development linkages in a global city.  (With co-PI Dr. Marie Price).