David Faust

David Faust recently retired as librarian for South Asia and the Middle East at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where he worked closely with faculty and students in advancing research on a range of sociocultural, political, and ecological issues. Faust is a geographer by training and has a long-standing interest in relations between people and the more-than-human world, particularly around hierarchies of difference and property regimes that mediate access and control over land, water, and forests, with a geographical focus on South Asia.

Selected publications

Sheppard, Eric, Philip W. Porter, David R. Faust, and Richa Nagar. 2009. A World of Difference: encountering and contesting development. New York: Guilford Press.

“South Asia Niche Collecting: Development Studies and Contestation.” Conference paper, 6th Annual South Asia Cooperative Collection Development Workshop, Madison, Wisconsin, October 2015.