Valerie L. Kuletz

An independent sociologist and writer, Valerie Kuletz holds a PhD in environmental sociology from the University of California-Santa Cruz. She was Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, has been Visiting Scholar in Geography at UC Berkeley and Visiting Associate Professor in History at University of New Mexico. Her publications include "The Tainted Desert" (Routledge, 1998), as well as numerous essays in contributed volumes. She is currently finishing a paper on the legacy of nuclear weapons testing in the United States, to be published by Oregon State University Press. She lives with her husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.