Research interests:
  • human-environment geography
  • agriculture & conservation
  • soil & water management
  • mountains
  • Mexico & the Caribbean, Latin America

Education:
  • PhD, University of Texas at Austin (2014)
  • MA, Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico (2003)
  • BA, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. (1998)

Research funding provided by:
  • National Geographic Society
  • Partnership for the Americas-Jenkins Foundation
  • US State Department (WHA)
  • National Science Foundation (DDRI #1031676)
  • Fulbright-Hays (IIE-Mellon Foundation)
  • Boren Fellowship for International Study
  • British Library Endangered Archives Programme
  • National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) at University of Maryland
  • University of Alabama
  • University of Texas

LaFevor, M. C. Geography: Mexico (review essay) In Handbook of Latin American Studies: Social Sciences No.74, (ed.) T. North. Hispanic Division, Library of Congress. Austin: University of Texas Press.

LaFevor, M. C. and Magliocca, N. R. (2020) Farmland size, chemical fertilizers, and irrigation management effects on maize and wheat yield in Mexico. Journal of Land Use Science. DOI:10.1080/1747423X.2020.1800849

Weber, J. and LaFevor, M.C. (2020) Reconstructing Nevada's Arrowhead Trail from Submerged Cultural Resources. Geographical Review. DOI:10.1080/00167428.2020.1800409

Ramos-Scharrón, C. and LaFevor, M. C. (2018) Effects of Forest Roads on Runoff Initiation in Low-Order Ephemeral Streams. Water Resources Research 54: 1-19. DOI:10.1029/2018WR023442

LaFevor, M. C., Cissell, J., Misfeldt, J. (2018) Agave Cultivation, Terracing, and Conservation in Mexico. Focus on Geography 61(1).  DOI:10.21690/foge/2017.61.1f

LaFevor, M. C., (2018) Review of Agrarian Crossings: Reformers and the Remaking of the US and Mexican Countryside (Princeton University Press, 2017) by Tore C. Olsson. In Journal of Historical Geography 60(1). DOI: 10.1016/j.jhg.2018.02.011

Alexander, S., Bishop, L., Budden, A., Cox, M., Crosas, M., Game, E., Geary, J., Hahn, C., Hardy, D., Johnson, J., Karcher, S., LaFevor, M.C., Motzer, N., Pinto da Silva, P., Pittman, J., Randell, H., Silva, J., Smith, J., Smorul, M., Strasser, C., Strawhacker, C., Stuhl, A, Weber, N., Winslow, D. (2018) Qualitative data sharing and re-use for socio-environmental systems research: A synthesis of opportunities, challenges, resources and approaches. SESYNC White Paper. DOI:10.13016/M2WH2DG59.

LaFevor, M. C. and Butzer, E. K., (2017) Medicinal Snow as a Public Good: Indigenous Communities, Merchants, and Justice in Colonial Mexico. Journal of Latin American Geography 16(3): 17-28. DOI:10.1353/lag.2017.0048

LaFevor, M. C., (2017) Review of City on Fire: Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 (University of Pittsburg Press, 2016) by Anna Rose Alexander. In Journal of Latin American Geography 16(2): 191-191. DOI: 10.1353/lag.2017.0035

Ramos-Scharrón, C. E. and LaFevor, M. C., (2016) The Role of Unpaved Roads as Active Source Areas of Precipitation Excess in Small Watersheds Drained by Ephemeral Streams. Journal of Hydrology 533: 168-79. DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2015.11.051

Suding, K., Higgs, E., Palmer, M., Callicott, J. B., Anderson, C. B., Baker, M., Gutrich, J. J., Hondula, K. L., LaFevor, M. C., Larson, B.. M., Randall, A., Ruhl, J. B., Schwartz, K. Z., (2015) Committing to Ecological Restoration: Efforts Around the Globe Need Legal and Policy Clarification. Science 350(6235): 638-640. DOI:10.1126/science.aaa4216

LaFevor, M. C., (2015) Environmental Concerns Facing the U.S. and Mexico: An International Perspective. In Neighborly Adversaries: Readings in U.S.-Latin American Relations, 3rd Edition. Michael J. LaRosa and Frank O. Mora, eds. (Roman and Littlefield): 265-276.

Hudson, P. F. and LaFevor, M. C., (2014) Introduction: Managing and Monitoring Human Impacts on Landscapes for Environmental Change and Sustainability, In P. F. Hudson and M. C. LaFevor (guest eds) special issue of the Journal of Environmental Management 138: 1-3.

LaFevor, M. C., (2014) Restoration of Degraded Agricultural Terraces: Rebuilding Landscape Structure and Process. Journal of Environmental Management 138: 32-42. DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.11.019

Hudson, P.F. and LaFevor, M.C., (guest editors) (2014) Management and Monitoring of Land Degradation and Environmental Change. Journal of Environmental Management 138: 1-96.

LaFevor, M. C., (2014) Review of Estudio Costero del Suroccidente de México (CIGA-UNAM, 2013) by Donald D. Brand. In The AAG Review of Books 2(3): 113-115.

LaFevor, M. C., (2014) Review of Environmental Histories of Modern Mexico (University of Arizona Press, 2013) edited by Christopher R. Boyer. In Journal of Historical Geography 43: 187.

Hudson, P. F., Sounny-Slitine, A., LaFevor, M. C., (2014) A New Longitudinal Approach to Assess Hydrologic Connectivity: Embanked Floodplain Inundation along the Lower MississippiRiver. Hydrological Processes 27: 2187-2196. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.9838

LaFevor, M. C., (2012) Building a Colonial Resource Monopoly: The Expansion of Sulphur Mining in New Spain (1600-1820). Geographical Review 102(2): 202-224. *Recipient of the Wrigley-Fairchild Award from the American Geographical Society. DOI: 10.1111/j.1931-0846.2012.00143.x

LaFevor, M. C., (2012) Sulphur Mining on Mexico's Popocatépetl Volcano (1820-1920): Origins, Development, and Human-Environmental Challenges. Journal of Latin American Geography 11(1): 79-98.

LaFevor, M. C., (2010) Review of Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous People and the Mapping of the New World (Reaktion Books, 2009) by John Rennie Short. In Journal of Latin American Geography 9(2): 183-185.

LaFevor, M. C., (2010) Mountains and Creative Mexican Maps: From Seminar to Survey. Portal: LLILAS Annual Review 5: 28-31.