Curriculum

Vitae

IUP McNair

Scholars Program

Calvin Onias Masilela

Director, IUP McNair Scholars Program

and

Professor of Geography and Regional Planning

Education

Ph.D. Environmental Design and Planning, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia, 1989.

MA. Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 1983.

Diploma Urban Planning Implementation, University of Westminster, London, UK, 1981.

BA (Honors) Urban Planning Studies, University of Westminster, London, England, 1980.

Professional Appointments

2006 - present Professor, Department

of Geography and Regional Planning, IUP

2003 - present Director, McNair Scholars Program

2001 - 2006 Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, IUP.

2001 present Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU

2000 2001 Director, McNair Scholars Program, WVU.

1999 - 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU.

1993 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU.

1990 1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, IUP.

Teaching and Research Interests

African Development; Land Use Policy; Planning Theory and Process; Urban Planning; Planning

African Development; Community Planning; Growth Management; Rural Development; Planning education

Honors

2004 Who s Who in America, 58th Edition

2002 Who s Who in America, 56th Edition

Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher, West Virginia University, 2000

Outstanding Educator in Conservation, Monongahela Soil Conservation District, WV, 1999

Cheikh Anita Diop Award for outstanding African Scholar, WVU Center for Black Culture & Research, 1995

Publications in Progress

Dube, S. and Masilela, C.O.(forthcoming 2006). Rethinking the African State: A New Conceptualization on Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang and Kwamina Panford

Africa s Development in the 21st Century: Pertinent issues, Opportunities and Challenges

Masilela, C.O. and Dube, S. (forthcoming 2006). Land Reform and Land Redistribution in Zimbabwe: A Tragedy of the Commons. In Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang and Kwamina Panford

Africa s Development in the 21st Century: Pertinent issues, Opportunities and Challenges.

Modie T. and Masilela, C.O. (in

review: Africa Geographical Review). Community-Level Stressors and Health Outcomes in Low-Income Urban Communities in Francistown: Toward a Population Health Model in the era of HIV/AIDS.

Selected Publications

Dube, S. and Masilela, C.O., 2004.

Olson's Stationary-Roving Bandit Model:

An Application to Zimbabwe's Land Reform

and Sustainable Development. The

Pennsylvania Geographer,

Spring/Summer, Volume 42. Number 1.Masilela, C.O., and Meyer, W. A., 1999. The Role of Citizen Participation in Comprehensive Planning: The Morgantown Experience.

Small Town.

Masilela, C.O., and Rankin, D., 1998. Land Reform in Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF s Red Herring.

The East African Geographical Review (EAGR), Volume 20 (1), pp.1-19.

Masilela, C.O., 1998. Malawi. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief). The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 2, pp. 1851.

Masilela, C.O., 1998. Zambia. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief).

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 3, pp. 3548-3549.

Masilela, C.O., 1998. Zimbabwe. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief).

The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 3, pp. 3568-3569.

Masilela, C.O., and Weiner, D., 1997. Lessons from Zimbabwe's Land Resettlement Experience. In de Villiers, A. and Critchley W.,

Rural Land Reform Issues in Southern Africa: Lessons For South Africa's Northern Province, University of the North, South Africa, pp 24-41.

Masilela, C. O., and Weiner, D., 1996.Resettlement Planning. In Zimbabwe and South's Africa's Rural Land Reform Discourse.

Third World Planning Review, Volume 18 (1), pp. 23-43.

Masilela, C.O., 1994. Teaching American Students About Urbanization in Developing Countries: The Use of Role-Playing Exercises.

Journal of Geography, 93, 3, pp.114-124.

Knox, P. L., and Masilela, C. O., 1990. Role Orientations of Third World Urban Planners. Planning and Environment B: 17, pp. 9-22.

Knox, P. L., and Masilela, C. O., 1989. Attitudes to Third World Urban Planning: Practitioners versus Outside Experts.

Habitat International, 13, 3, pp. 67-79.

Masilela, C. O., 1988. Changing Rural Development Policies and Planning in Zimbabwe: Comment. In Robert, A. Obudho (ed.). Regional Development Policies and Planning in Africa.

Regional Development Dialogue Special Issue, pp. 216-218.

Book Reviews

Masilela, C.O., 2003. Contemporary World Regional Geography. By Michael Bradshaw, 2003: 1st Edition: McGraw-Hill.

Masilela, C.O., 1995. Contested Lands: Conflict & Compromise in New Jersey Pine Barrens. By Robert J. Mason. 1992. Temple University Press. Pennsylvania Geographer. Vol. XXXIII, 1, pp.93-95.

Grants

Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education

(October 2005 - September 2006).$220,000.

Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education

(October 2004 - September 2005). $220,000.

Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education

(October 2003 - September 20040. $209,258.

IUP Senate Fellowship Grant 2002-03 (co-PI with Drs. Begg and Sechrist).

$3,511.Information Technology for Higher Education Capacity Building in Southern Africa. USIA-FY 2000 College and University Affiliations Program: Partnership Between West Virginia University, The University of Pretoria, South Africa and Catholic University, Mozambique. (Principal Investigator with Daniel Weiner: October 2000 September 1, 2003).

$142,436.Monitoring Beira (Mozambique) Using Geographic Urban Indicators. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and US Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Principal Investigator with Greg Elmes and Daniel Weiner: January 2001 August 2001).

$40,000.Principal

investigator, Ronald E. McNair

Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

U.S. Department of Education (October 2000 -

September 2001). $203,000

Technical Reports

Masilela, C.O., McCusker, B., Elmes, G., Lin, G., and Weiner, D. 2002. Monitoring Beira-Mozambique Using Geographic Urban Indicators. Funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and UCGIS (http://HUD.ucgis2.org/ or www.beira.geo.wvu.edu).

Conference Papers

Masilela, C. O. and Modie, T. 2005.

Community-Level Stressors and Health

Outcomes in Low-Income Urban Communities

in Francistown: A Conceptual Population

Health Model in HIV/AIDS Diffusion.

Paper presented at the 2005 Annual

Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers. April 5-9, 2005,

Denver, Colorado.Masilela, C. O.

2004. Land Reform and Land

Redistribution in Zimbabwe: A Tragedy of

the Commons. Paper presented at the

100th Annual Meeting of the Association

of American Geographers, Philadelphia,

PA. March 14 - 19, 2004Moderator,

Making Change: Reinventing Africa's

Spatial Organization. Session sponsored

by Africa Specialty Group at the 100th

Annual Meeting of the Association of

American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA.

March 14 - 19, 2004.Masilela, C.O.

and Dube, S. 2003. Rethinking the Africa

State: A New Conceptualization on

Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at

the 99th Annual Meeting of the

Association of American Geographers, New

Orleans, LA, March 5-8, 2003.Masilela, C.O. and McCusker, B. 2002. Presented a final draft report at the 2nd HUD/UCGIS Symposium on Global Urban Quality Indicators: Analysis of Urban Indicators Using Geographic Information Science, sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with UCGIS, Millennium Hotel, New York City, January 8-11, 2002.

Masilela, C.O. and McCusker, B. 2001. Presented progress report at the 1st HUD/UCGIS Symposium on Global Urban Quality Indicators: Analysis of Urban Indicators Using Geographic Information Science, sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with UCGIS, Washington DC, September 26, 2001

Workshop participant at The 15th Annual Conference for African Americans in Higher Education, sponsored by the Black Faculty & Staff Association, University of Maryland, College Park. May 29-30, 2002.

Invited Presentations

Delivered an invited lecture on Rural Development and Health in Africa as part of a module course Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology sponsored by the WVU International Health Program,

Friday, June 24, 2005.Delivered an invited lecture on Rural Development and Health in Africa as part of a module course Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology sponsored by the WVU International Health Program, Monday, June

21, 2004.Delivered an invited lecture on Rural Development and Health in Africa as part of a module course Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology sponsored by the WVU International Health Program, Monday, June 15, 2003.

Invited lecture presentation on Africa to 9th and 10th graders at Gateway High School, Monroeville, Pittsburgh, November 18, 2002. Lecture was sponsored by an IUP student teacher.

Dissertation Supervision and Committees Adjunct Professor, West Virginia University

Francis N. Murage. May 2003. An Examination of the relationship between motivational factors and the degree the Higher Education Faculty integrate CMC Tools in their courses. Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University (Committee Member).

Khaulani Fichaini. April 2003. Modeling the international competitiveness of Botswana s coal. Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University (Committee Member).

Seela Aladuwaka. August 2003. Micro-credit Enterprises in Sri Lanka. Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University (Committee Member).

Francis T. Koti. 2004. Same Place Yet Different Worlds: A GIS and Society Perspective on Kenyan Peri-Urbanization. Ph.D. Dissertation Prospects, West Virginia University (Committee Member).

Abdullah Almutairi. June 2004. An Investigation of the Role of Image Properties in Influencing the Accuracy of Remote Sensing Change Detection Analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University (Committee Member).

Richard J. Hoch. August 2005. An

Analysis of Fragmented Land-Use Policy

and Land-use Change: The Case Study of

Metropolitan Pittsburgh, West Virginia

University (Committee Member)

Professional Affiliation

American Planning Association

Pennsylvania Planning Association

Association of American Geographers

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