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*Three Californias Project
*Proyecto de las Tres Californias

Fall 2011 Baja California Course
>>View Course Syllabus (.pdf)

Institute for Regional Studies
of the Californias
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive, AL 377
San Diego, CA 92182-6039

Location:Arts & Letters 377
Telephone: (619) 594-5423
Fax: (619) 594-5474
Email:irsc@mail.sdsu.edu

Last Update: 12/9/11

Staff

Dr. Paul Ganster, Director

Dr. Ganster is a social scientist with a specialty in Latin America. His initial years of research and writing were in the area of Latin American social history. For the past 25 years, his efforts have been directed toward policy questions of the U.S.-Mexican border region and the comparative study of border regions around the world. Ganster’s current research interests include border environmental issues, transborder governance issues, comparative border studies, and sustainable development in the border region. He serves on a number of advisory boards for organizations dealing with the border region. He is chair of the Good Neighbor Environmental Board, a federal advisory panel that provides an annual report to the President and Congress on border environmental issues. He also chairs the Committee on Binational Regional Opportunities (COBRO) of the San Diego Association of Governments. He is the current chairman of the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy. In addition to teaching at San Diego State University, Dr. Ganster has been a visiting professor at the School of Economics of the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California in Tijuana. He is also Associate Director of the Office of International Programs at San Diego State University.

Ms. Elizabeth Flesh, SCERP Coordinator

Elizabeth Flesh is Coordinator for the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP) at SDSU. She is a graduate student in Latin American Studies at SDSU. Her focus is contemporary art in Tijuana, primarily that of artist Jaime Ruiz Otis, and the ways in which his art is used to reflect the many identities of Tijuana, an ever-changing city and landscape. Formerly, Elizabeth was a teacher at Herbert Hoover High School in City Heights for six years; the last two years, she directed the Visual and Performing Arts Academy on Hoover's campus. Ms. Flesh can be contacted via email at: eflesh@projects.sdsu.edu .