Author Biography
Steven Rodriguez received his PhD in history from UCLA, completing a dissertation project that examined national park development and nature tourism in Indonesia and Vietnam. Prior to pursuing a career as an academic, Steven worked as a script reader for DreamWorks and was the proprietor of Angel City Bookstore located in Santa Monica, California. His current research projects include a study of French programs for national park development in Indochina and a history of Indonesian mountain climbing in the 1980s and 1990s.
