 Dr. Miguel DeOliver, Associate Professor of Geography (Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University), has been at UTSA since 1992. His teaching centers on the political and cultural geography of the U.S. and Canada, Latin America, and the rest of the world. His courses include world regional geography, political geography, cultural geography, the Geography of Latin America, and the Geography of the U.S. and Canada. He has also taught a graduate seminar in Political Geography for the MA program in Political Science. Miguel's research centers upon racial and gender disparities in the postmodern urban landscape. A particular interest has been consumerism and the manifestations of social inequality in the North American built environment. His article, "Marketing Latinos as Development Policy: San Antonio and the Reproduction of Underprivilege," appeared in the December 2000 issue of Latino Studies, and the article "Multicultural Consumerism and Racial Hierarchy: a Case Study of Market Culture and the Structural Harmonisation of Contradictory Doctrines," appeared in the March 2001 issue of Antipode. He has published a number of articles on related topics. Another of his foci is international political economy and democracy; he is currently finishing a book, Pax Americana: the Distinctions and Delusions of Democracy and Imperialism, that articulates the parallels between nominally democratic and autocratic political states.
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