William G. Moseley

William G. Moseley (born 1965) is an author, scholar and associate professor of geography at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota. He is a development and human-environment geographer with particular expertise in political ecology, tropical agriculture, environment and development policy, livelihood security, and West Africa and Southern Africa. Before becoming an academic, he worked for ten years in the field of international development. Moseley’s books include: Hanging by a Thread: Cotton, Globalization and Poverty in Africa (Ohio University Press, 2008), with Leslie Gray; The Introductory Reader in Human Geography: Contemporary Debates and Classic Writings (Blackwell, 2007), with David Lanegran and Kavita Pandit; three editions of Taking Sides: Clashing Views on African Issues (McGraw-Hill, 2004, 2006 & 2008); and African Environment and Development: Rhetoric, Programs, Realities (Ashgate, 2004), with Ikubolajeh Logan. He has also published over 35 peer reviewed journal articles and book chapters, as well as numerous newspaper op-eds.