Falcon, Walter P.

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Abstract: Walter P. Falcon, Deputy Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, spoke about growing up on an Iowa corn farm, his education, his faculty position at Harvard, and coming to Stanford in 1972 as Professor and Director of the Food Research Institute (FRI). He discussed his academic career and his research and policy advisory work in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, as well as the overall role of FRI and its ultimate closure in the mid-1990s. He also talked about his experiences as an Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences (1985-1991) and as Director of the Institute for International Studies, now the Freeman Spogli Institute (1991-1998), and of its Center for Environmental Science and Policy (1998-2005). Dr. Falcon offered his views on a variety of topics including interdisciplinary research and teaching, theoretical vs. applied scholarship, and institution building.

Type of resource	mixed material
Date created	March 13, 2013 - March 28, 2013

Author	Falcon, Walter P.
Publisher	Stanford Historical Society
Contributing author	Schofield, Susan Ward

Subject	Walter Falcon
Subject	Stanford Historical Society
Subject	Oral histories
Subject	Interviews
Subject	Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research > Stanford Center for Economic Development
Subject	Food Research Institute
Subject	Freeman Spogli Institute for International Research > Food Security and Environment Center

Related item	Title Finding aid
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hw403hq3978

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Preferred Citation: Falcon, Walter P. (2013).
Oral history. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at:
http://purl.stanford.edu/hw403hq3978

Stanford Historical Society Oral History Program interviews, 1999-2022

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