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Michael J. Watts (born England, 1951) was "Class of 1963" Professor of Geography and Development Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is a leading critical intellectual figure of the academic left. ==Background== Raised between Bath and Bristol in the UK, Watts received his bachelor's degree in Geography University College London in 1972 and his PhD in 1979 from the University of Michigan. His PhD work was on agrarian change and politics in Northern Nigeria, published as ''Silent Violence'' in 1983. He joined the faculty of the Geography Department at UC Berkeley in 1979, and served from 1994 to 2004 as Director of the Institute of International Studies, a program that promotes cross-disciplinary global and transnational research and training. He has supervised 75 PhD students and post-docs. Watts was named a 2003 Guggenheim fellow for his research on oil politics in Nigeria, a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences () at Stanford University (2004), and the Smuts Lecturer at Cambridge University in 2007. In 2004 he was awarded the Victoria Medal of the Royal Geographical Society. On 25 July 2007, he was shot in the hand in Port Harcourt, Nigeria by unknown gunmen.〔(BBC NEWS | Africa | Professor shot in Nigerian Delta )〕 Watts is married to Mary Beth Pudup, who is a UC Santa Cruz faculty member, and has two children. He is a member of Retort collective, a Bay Area-based collective of radical intellectuals, with whom he authored the book ''Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War'', published by Verso Books.〔()〕 He is also on the advisory board of FFIPP-USA (Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace-USA), a network of Palestinian, Israeli, and International faculty, and students, working in for an end of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and just peace. () 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Watts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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