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James J. Biles | Faculty

James J. Biles Assistant Professor, Department of Geography

Office: SB 114
TEL: 856-4447
Email: jbiles@indiana.edu

Curriculum Vitae
Website

Education

Ph.D. 2001, Michigan State

Research

  • Economic Geography
  • Development Policy in Latin America
  • Globalization

External Research Funding

  • Martín Castillo, M. and J.J. Biles. Typology of small-scale agricultural and livestock producers in Yucatán, Mexico.  Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (Mexico). Amount awarded: $538,000 pesos (approx. $50,000 US), 2007-08.
  • Lindley, T. and J.J. Biles. Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intercountry adoption in the Philippines and the United States – global networks and local processes. Geography and Regional Science Program, National Science Foundation. Amount awarded $11,425, 2007-08.
  • Biles, J.J. (PI) and D. Lemberg. REU Program: Globalization and Sustainable Development in Latin America, Division of Crosscutting Programs, national Science Foundation, REU Site Award Amount Awarded: ($190,890), 2004-06.

Teaching

  • G500 Research Problems in Geography
  • G417/517 Geography and Development
  • G316 Economic Geography
  • G323 Geography of Latin America
  • G120 World Regional Geography
  • I203 Global Integration and Development

Representative Publications

  • J.J. Biles & T. Lindley. 2009. Globalization, geography and the liberation of overseas study. Journal of Geography (forthcoming).
  • J.J. Biles. 2009. Informal work in Latin America: recent debates and competing perspectives. Geography Compass (forthcoming).
  • J.J. Biles. 2008. Informal work and livelihoods in Mexico: getting by or getting ahead? The Professional Geographer 60, 4, 541-555.
  • J.J. Biles. 2008. Wal-Mart and the "supermarket revolution" in Mexico. Geographische Rundschau-International Edition 4, 2, 44-49
  • J.J Biles et al. 2007. Globalization of food retailing in southeastern
    Mexico: transformation of supply networks and consequences for small-scale agricultural producers. Journal of Latin American Geography 6, 2, 55-75.
  • J.L. Scarpaci & J.J. Biles. 2007. Globalization and Latin American
    geography: linking scales of analysis. Journal of Latin American Geography 6, 2, 7-10.
  • J.J. Biles. 2006. Globalization of food retailing and the consequences of walmartization in Mexico, in S. Brunn, ed., Wal-Mart World: The World's Biggest Corporation in the Global Economy. New York: Routledge (pp. 347-359).
  • J.J. Biles. 2005. Globalization of banking and local access to financial resources: a case study from southeastern Mexico. The Industrial Geographer 2, 2, 159-173.
  • J.J. Biles. 2004. Export-oriented industrialization and regional
    development: a case study of maquiladora production in Yucatán, Mexico, Regional Studies 38, 5, 517-532.
  • J.J. Biles. 2003. Using spatial econometric techniques to estimate spatial multipliers: an assessment of regional economic policy in Yucatán, Mexico, The Review of Regional Studies 33, 2, 121-141.

Student Theses

  • Rebecca Clouser, Fear and development work in Guatemala (Ph.D., current)
  • Tara Sullivan-Boivin, Embeddedness and the role of NGOs in Latin America (M.A. Latin American Studies, 2008)