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Michael James Dear is anurban geographer and educator. He has written several books, includingWhy Walls Won't Work: Repairing the US-Mexico Divide, which was published byOxford University Press in 2013.[1][2] He teaches City and Regional Planning at theCollege of Environmental Design of theUniversity of California, Berkeley.
Dear was born inTreorchy, Wales.[citation needed]
In 1988, he received aGuggenheim Fellowship.[3]
He worked at theUniversity of Southern California in Los Angeles.
He currently teaches City and Regional Planning at theCollege of Environmental Design of theUniversity of California, Berkeley, in the United States (he has been at Berkeley since 2009).[4] He is a fellow of theBellagio Center of theRockefeller Foundation at Villa Serbelloni on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy, and of theCenter for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences ofStanford University in Stanford, California.
He is a fellow of theLearned Society of Wales.[5]