Garth Myers earned a Ph.D. in Geography (1993) from UCLA with an allied field in Urban Planning.  Myers has an M.A. (UCLA, 1986) in African Area Studies, with Geography and Urban Planning as the major and minor fields, and a BA with Honors in History from Bowdoin College, with concentrations in African and African-American History. He has taught at the University of Kansas, University of Nebraska-Omaha, Miami University (Ohio), California State University at Dominguez Hills, and UCLA. His teaching philosophy rests on a belief in student engagement; the best learning takes place in engaged classrooms, where the professor facilitates student discussion and debate. Myers has conducted research in Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Senegal, South Africa, Finland, China, Trinidad, Jamaica, Martinique, the US and the UK over the past 30 years. His primary research areas concern the historical, cultural and political geography of urban and environmental planning in Eastern and Southern Africa. He has published six books, two co-edited volumes and more than 80 research articles or book chapters.

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