Calvin Onias Masilela
Director, IUP McNair Scholars Program
and
Professor of Geography and Regional Planning

• Ph.D. Environmental Design and Planning, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg Virginia, 1989.
• MA. Urban and Regional Planning, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia 1983.
• Diploma Urban Planning Implementation, University of Westminster, London, UK, 1981.
• BA (Honors) Urban Planning Studies, University of Westminster, London, England, 1980.

• 2006 - present Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, IUP
• 2003 - present Director, McNair Scholars Program
• 2001 - 2006 Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, IUP.
• 2001 – present Adjunct Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU
• 2000 – 2001 Director, McNair Scholars Program, WVU.
• 1999 - 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU.
• 1993 - 1999 Assistant Professor, Department of Geology and Geography, WVU.
• 1990 – 1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Regional Planning, IUP.

• African Development; Land Use Policy; Planning Theory and Process; Urban Planning; Planning
• African Development; Community Planning; Growth Management; Rural Development; Planning education

• 2004 Who’s Who in America, 58th Edition
• 2002 Who’s Who in America, 56th Edition
• Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher, West Virginia University, 2000
• Outstanding Educator in Conservation, Monongahela Soil Conservation District, WV, 1999
• Cheikh Anita Diop Award for outstanding African Scholar, WVU Center for Black Culture & Research, 1995

• Dube, S. and Masilela, C.O.(forthcoming 2006). Rethinking the African State: A New Conceptualization on Sub-Saharan Africa. In Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang and Kwamina Panford Africa’s Development in the 21st Century: Pertinent issues, Opportunities and Challenges
• Masilela, C.O. and Dube, S. (forthcoming 2006). Land Reform and Land Redistribution in Zimbabwe: A Tragedy of the Commons. In Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang and Kwamina Panford Africa’s Development in the 21st Century: Pertinent issues, Opportunities and Challenges.
• Modie T. and Masilela, C.O. (in review: Africa Geographical Review). Community-Level Stressors and Health Outcomes in Low-Income Urban Communities in Francistown: Toward a Population Health Model in the era of HIV/AIDS.

• Dube, S. and Masilela, C.O., 2004. Olson's Stationary-Roving Bandit Model: An Application to Zimbabwe's Land Reform and Sustainable Development. The Pennsylvania Geographer, Spring/Summer, Volume 42. Number 1.
• Masilela, C.O., and Meyer, W. A., 1999. The Role of Citizen Participation in Comprehensive Planning: The Morgantown Experience. Small Town.
• Masilela, C.O., and Rankin, D., 1998. Land Reform in Zimbabwe: ZANU-PF’s Red Herring. The East African Geographical Review (EAGR), Volume 20 (1), pp.1-19.
• Masilela, C.O., 1998. Malawi. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief). The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 2, pp. 1851.
• Masilela, C.O., 1998. Zambia. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief). The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 3, pp. 3548-3549.
• Masilela, C.O., 1998. Zimbabwe. In Saul Cohen (Editor-in-chief). The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, Columbia University Press. Volume 3, pp. 3568-3569.
• Masilela, C.O., and Weiner, D., 1997. Lessons from Zimbabwe's Land Resettlement Experience. In de Villiers, A. and Critchley W., Rural Land Reform Issues in Southern Africa: Lessons For South Africa's Northern Province, University of the North, South Africa, pp 24-41.
• Masilela, C. O., and Weiner, D., 1996.Resettlement Planning. In Zimbabwe and South's Africa's Rural Land Reform Discourse. Third World Planning Review, Volume 18 (1), pp. 23-43.
• Masilela, C.O., 1994. Teaching American Students About Urbanization in Developing Countries: The Use of Role-Playing Exercises. Journal of Geography, 93, 3, pp.114-124.
• Knox, P. L., and Masilela, C. O., 1990. Role Orientations of Third World Urban Planners. Planning and Environment B: 17, pp. 9-22.
• Knox, P. L., and Masilela, C. O., 1989. Attitudes to Third World Urban Planning: Practitioners versus Outside Experts. Habitat International, 13, 3, pp. 67-79.
• Masilela, C. O., 1988. Changing Rural Development Policies and Planning in Zimbabwe: Comment. In Robert, A. Obudho (ed.). Regional Development Policies and Planning in Africa. Regional Development Dialogue Special Issue, pp. 216-218.

• Masilela, C.O., 2003. Contemporary World Regional Geography. By Michael Bradshaw, 2003: 1st Edition: McGraw-Hill.
• Masilela, C.O., 1995. Contested Lands: Conflict & Compromise in New Jersey Pine Barrens. By Robert J. Mason. 1992. Temple University Press. Pennsylvania Geographer. Vol. XXXIII, 1, pp.93-95.

• Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education (October 2005 - September 2006).$220,000.
• Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education (October 2004 - September 2005). $220,000.
• Principal investigator, The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, U S Department of Education (October 2003 - September 20040. $209,258.
• IUP Senate Fellowship Grant 2002-03 (co-PI with Drs. Begg and Sechrist). $3,511.
• Information Technology for Higher Education Capacity Building in Southern Africa. USIA-FY 2000 College and University Affiliations Program: Partnership Between West Virginia University, The University of Pretoria, South Africa and Catholic University, Mozambique.  (Principal Investigator with Daniel Weiner: October 2000 – September 1, 2003). $142,436.
• Monitoring Beira (Mozambique) Using Geographic Urban Indicators. University Consortium for Geographic Information Science and US Department of Housing and Urban Development. (Principal Investigator with Greg Elmes and Daniel Weiner: January 2001 – August 2001). $40,000.
• Principal investigator, Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program. U.S. Department of Education (October 2000 - September 2001). $203,000

• Masilela, C.O., McCusker, B., Elmes, G., Lin, G., and Weiner, D. 2002. Monitoring Beira-Mozambique Using Geographic Urban Indicators. Funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and UCGIS (http://HUD.ucgis2.org/ or www.beira.geo.wvu.edu).

• Masilela, C. O. and Modie, T. 2005. Community-Level Stressors and Health Outcomes in Low-Income Urban Communities in Francistown: A Conceptual Population Health Model in HIV/AIDS Diffusion. Paper presented at the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. April 5-9, 2005, Denver, Colorado.
• Masilela, C. O. 2004. Land Reform and Land Redistribution in Zimbabwe: A Tragedy of the Commons. Paper presented at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA. March 14 - 19, 2004
• Moderator, Making Change: Reinventing Africa's Spatial Organization. Session sponsored by Africa Specialty Group at the 100th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Philadelphia, PA. March 14 - 19, 2004.
• Masilela, C.O. and Dube, S. 2003. Rethinking the Africa State: A New Conceptualization on  Sub-Saharan Africa. Paper presented at the 99th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA, March 5-8, 2003.
• Masilela, C.O. and McCusker, B. 2002. Presented a final draft report at the 2nd HUD/UCGIS Symposium on Global Urban Quality Indicators: Analysis of Urban Indicators Using Geographic Information Science, sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with UCGIS, Millennium Hotel, New York City, January 8-11, 2002.
• Masilela, C.O. and McCusker, B. 2001. Presented progress report at the 1st HUD/UCGIS Symposium on Global Urban Quality Indicators: Analysis of Urban Indicators Using Geographic Information Science, sponsored by the Department of Housing and Urban Development in collaboration with UCGIS, Washington DC, September 26, 2001
• Workshop participant at The 15th Annual Conference for African Americans in Higher Education, sponsored by the Black Faculty & Staff Association, University of Maryland, College Park. May 29-30, 2002.

• Delivered an invited lecture on Rural Development and Health in Africa as part of a module course “Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology” sponsored by the WVU International Health Program, Friday, June 24, 2005.
• Delivered an invited lecture on Rural Development and Health in Africa as part of a module course “Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology” sponsored by the WVU International Health Program, Monday, June 21, 2004.
• Delivered an invited lecture on Rural Development and Health in Africa as part of a module course “Clinical Tropical Medicine and Parasitology” sponsored by the WVU International Health Program, Monday, June 15, 2003.
• Invited lecture presentation on Africa to 9th and 10th graders at Gateway High School, Monroeville, Pittsburgh, November 18, 2002. Lecture was sponsored by an IUP student teacher.

• Francis N. Murage. May 2003. An Examination of the relationship between motivational factors and the degree the Higher Education Faculty integrate CMC Tools in their courses. Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University (Committee Member).
• Khaulani Fichaini. April 2003. Modeling the international competitiveness of Botswana’s coal. Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University (Committee Member).
• Seela Aladuwaka. August 2003. Micro-credit Enterprises in Sri Lanka. Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University (Committee Member).
• Francis T. Koti. 2004. Same Place Yet Different Worlds: A GIS and Society Perspective on Kenyan Peri-Urbanization. Ph.D. Dissertation Prospects, West Virginia University (Committee Member).
• Abdullah Almutairi. June 2004. An Investigation of the Role of Image Properties in Influencing the Accuracy of Remote Sensing Change Detection Analysis. Ph.D. Dissertation, West Virginia University (Committee Member).
• Richard J. Hoch. August 2005. An Analysis of Fragmented Land-Use Policy and Land-use Change: The Case Study of Metropolitan Pittsburgh, West Virginia University (Committee Member)

• American Planning Association
• Pennsylvania Planning Association
• Association of American Geographers