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

Publications/Presentations

Research Interests

2011. Kelly, John. La Posesión de Tierra y la Producción de Agua [Land Ownership and the Production of Water]. Reflexiones - Revista Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Costa Rica 90 (2)

2011. AGS Bowman Expedition to the Borderlands. Tierras y recursos naturales en la Reserva de Biósfera Río Plátano y la Reserva Tawahka. [Lands and Natural Resources in the Rio Platano Biosphere Reserve and the Tawahka Reserve]. 1:80,000. [maps produced with, and delivered to, indigenous organizations MASTA and FITH, Honduras.]

2010. Kelly, John, Peter Herlihy, Derek Smith, Aida Ramos Viera, Andrew Hilburn, and Gerardo Hernandez Cendejas. Indigenous Territoriality at the End of the Social Property Era in Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography 9 (3), 162-181.

2010. Kelly, John. Uneven Development. In Barney Warf, ed. Encyclopedia of Geography, Vol. 6. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage Publications.

2009. Smith, Derek, Peter Herlihy, John Kelly, and Aida Ramos Viera. The Certification and Privatization of Indigenous Lands in Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography 8 (2), 175-207.

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..

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: February, 2012.