• BA, University of Chicago (1992)
• MLA, University of California, Berkeley (1995)

2008.  Herlihy P., J. Dobson, M. Aguilar Robledo, D. Smith, J. Kelly, and A. Ramos Viera.  A Digital Geography of Indigenous Mexico: Prototype for the American Geographical Society's Bowman Expeditions.  Geographical Review 98 (3), July 2008, pp. 395-415.

2006.  Herlihy P., D. Smith, J. Kelly, J. Dobson.  Mexican Property Development Survey, Final Report.  Leavenworth: Foreign Military Studies Office.

2006.  Herlihy P., D. Smith, J. Kelly, J. Dobson.  México Indígena: Mexican Open-Source Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Project.  Final Report, Year One.  Leavenworth: Foreign Military Studies Office.

2002.  López Paniagua J., J. Kelly.  Informe técnico del componente ambiental productivo.  In Proyecto: Capacitación comunitaria para la conservación de la biodiversidad en áreas forestales cafetaleras de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca, eds. J. López Paniagua et al.  Oaxaca, Mexico: Grupo Mesófilo, A.C. 

2001.  Kelly J.  Mapas del área de protección de flora y fauna Otoch Ma'ax Yetel Kooh - Reserva Punta Laguna.  (Maps of the flora and fauna protected area Otoch Ma'ax Yetel Kooh - Punta Laguna Reserve).  1:20,000 and 1:5000.  Mérida, México: Pronatura Península de Yucatán, A.C.

2000.  Kelly J.  Reservas ejidales y parcelarias: Una herramienta potencial para crear corredores biológicos en la zona de Calakmul.  In  Tendencias de cambio en el uso del suelo por los factores socoieconómicos, naturales, y técnicos en la región de Calakmul, Campeche, eds. J.M. Pat Fernandez and V. M. Ku Quej, pp. 133-39.  Campeche, Mexico: El Colegio de la Frontera Sur.

• land tenure and natural resource management in rural Mesoamerica, with focus on village-scale agency and control in indigenous areas

• evolution of landscapes at the forest margin, with focus on tropical montane forests, recently settled regions, and protected areas
  
  
• participatory research mapping methods
  
  
• geographic education in the U.S. and Latin America

Dissertation title:
“Village-level Control of Natural Resources in Post-PROCEDE Indigenous Mexico”

By explaining how communities creatively engage with neoliberal land tenure reform in the Sierra Norte region of Oaxaca and the Huasteca region of San Luís Potosí, this study will illuminate how water sources, whose value is expected to increase in coming decades, will or will not benefit these communities.

Expected date of completion: December 2009.

Link to AGS First Bowman Expedition: México Indígena
http://web.ku.edu/~mexind