Alice Bullard, J.D., Ph.D., began this site in late May, 2009. She is a historian and lawyer. This site is part of an environmental history of the global future. Bullard was formerly a tenured professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. She currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
Working with GERDDES-Mauritanie, Bullard has focused recently on the impact of climate change in the north-west African country of Mauritania. The drought and desertification of the 1980s produced social upheavals there that led to ethnic violence and a refugee crisis that endures to this day. Looking at this crisis through the lens of climate change can open new avenues for national reconciliation and new avenues for the reintegration of the refugees into the national economy.
Alice Bullard’s publications include Human Rights in Crisis, Ashgate Press, 2008; Emotional Latitudes (with Matt Matsuda) and Exile to Paradise, Stanford University Press, 2000. She has published numerous articles and reviews on human rights, the history of psychiatry, contemporary slavery, the French-speaking Pacific, and West Africa. In addition to this current project on the Culture of Climate Change, she is working on a book on the history of transcultural psychiatry in French-speaking West Africa. That project has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council.
Bullard earned her doctorate and masters at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, and her B.A., with honors, from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. She earned her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, and is currently an EIP fellow there. She has been a Fulbright Fellow in Paris, a fellow at the Humanities Centre at the Australian National University, a DAAD fellow in Germany, and a fellow at the Carmargo Foundation in Cassis, France.