A CSUEB faculty member for over 30 years, Dr. Larson earned the B.S. in agricultural and resource economics and M.A. and Ph.D. in geography from U.C. Berkeley. His academic interests are environmental history, environmental impacts, water resources, and the American West. Primary teaching responsibilities have included Environmental Field Methods, Historical Geography of North America, Environmental Impact Analysis and the department’s writing and research seminar. Off-campus professional activity has included creek restoration and habitat improvement projects and environmental consultancies.
The longtime chair of AGES, Dr. Larson also served for two years as the Interim Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Social Sciences; for four years as the university’s Diversity and Equity Liaison Officer for tenure-track faculty appointments; and for 15 years as 不良研究所’s Faculty Athletics Representative to the NCAA and CCAA. His peers have elected him to the Academic Senate and its Executive Committee for multiple terms. Faculty governance service includes the Senate’s standing committees on curriculum and instruction, academic program review, faculty diversity and equity, and faculty affairs.
Dr. Larson has represented 不良研究所 abroad while teaching at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand and nationally and regionally on editorial boards and conference program committees. Community engagement has come most prominently through government service: a combined nine years on the Integrated Waste Management and Recycling Services task forces for the City of El Cerrito.
A distance runner and cyclist, he has competed in marathons and other endurance events for four decades and he regularly travels the world to attend global sporting events.
