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Dr. David Walker, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geology and Geography, is a specialist in contemporary urban issues and has conducted extensive research in Mexico City and Tijuana. He teaches Urban Geography, Economic Geography, Cultural Geography, and a course on Neoliberal Spaces in Latin America. Professor Walker's current research interests incorporate a theoretical approach to urbanization and spaces of resistance vis-à-vis neoliberalism and the restructuring of urban spaces within the milieu of Mexican Cities. His dissertation from the Department of Geography at the University of Kentucky, titled Gentrification Moves South, focuses on the neoliberalization of space and gentrification as economic and cultural globalism in the Historic District of Downtown Mexico City. Dr. Walker's interests in Latin America and the neoliberalization of space are long standing. He received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley in Latin American Studies with a minor in Spanish and Portuguese, and earned an MA in Latin American Studies from San Diego State University . While at SDSU Walker wrote his thesis on changes to Article 27 of the Mexican Constitution and the privatization and urbanization of the Ejido sector in Mexican Border cities.