WELCOME
Welcome to Craig Johnson's homepage. I teach in the field of international 
development, and specialize primarily on the politics of aid, the politics of Asia and the political economy of environmental vulnerability and development. I hold a PhD in International Development from the London School of Economics (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/DESTIN), where my work on environmental degradation and ethnic conflict in Southern Thailand explored the conditions under which local communities can establish proprietary rights of access and conservation in common pool resources, such as forests and fisheries. Prior to joining the University of Guelph in 2002, I was a post-doctoral fellow with the Overseas Development Institute (www.odi.org.uk) in London, where I helped lead a three year study of liberalization and rural livelihood diversification in India, Nepal and Bangladesh. In 2008 and 2009 I was an ESRC-SSRC Visiting Fellow with the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research and James Martin 21st Century Visiting Fellow at the Environmental Change Institute (http://www.eci.ox.ac.uk), both at the University of Oxford.
I am currently taking forward new research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) on urban displacement and environmental change, exploring the politics of migration, vulnerability and citizenship in the South Asian context. Information about this project can be found on my “Research” link.
Outside of my professional life, I am a father of three and am married to the locally-renowned furniture and cabinet maker, Sara Moore. I live in the “Royal City” of Guelph, Ontario.