Affiliated Faculty
Expertise: Gender, culture and sustainable development/conservation; Gender, livelihoods and social differentiation; globalization gender and livelihoods; indigenous peoples and ethnicity in development; ethnic spirituality and health
Expertise: I am an anthropological archaeologist with a broad interest base. I have conducted various research projects in England, Antigua, Barbados, North Carolina and Florida.
My research interests include cultural contact, the long-term impacts of colonialism and commodity creation, industrialism, archaeologies of the illicit, and various aspects of historical and maritime archaeology.
Expertise: Acculturation, inequality, social capital, econometrics, research design, Bolivia, indigenous peoples, native Amazonians, panel studies, randomized controlled trials
Madeleine Haas Russell Postdoctoral Fellow in Climate Crisis, Risks, and Responses, Interdepartmental Program in Environmental Studies and Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies, Brandeis University
Expertise: environmental politics and justice, neoliberal and colonial conservation, critical political economy, carbon markets, deforestation, environmental foreign aid, extractivism, international commodities trade, peasant and rural labor studies, land conflicts, indigenous and traditional peoples’ rights and activism, intersectional and regional inequality, food security
Expertise: Focuses on environmental and climate justice, climate governance, environmental policies and institutions, and the commons. He is the author of Democracy in the Woods: Environmental Conservation and Social Justice in India, Tanzania, and Mexico (Oxford University Press, 2017), Editor of Climate Justice in India (Cambridge University Press, 2022), and Editor of the journal Environmental Politics. He serves on the editorial advisory boards of Earth Systems Governance, Progress in Development Studies, Sage Open, and Humanities & Social Sciences Communications. His public-facing writings have appeared in popular venues, such as the Conversation, the Guardian, Al-Jazeera and the Washington Post.
Expertise: Modern and contemporary Spanish and comparative literature, film, and culture; U.S. film and popular culture
Expertise: Institutions and economic development, industrial innovation policy, corporate governance
Expertise: Economic development of Africa, comparative Third World political economy
Expertise: Philosophy of development, political/cultural and population geography, psychological and cultural barriers to poverty alleviation, agrarian reform, project planning and implementation, organizational management, post-harvest technology transfer, social exclusion and emancipatory development, qualitative evaluation, higher education curriculum design and governance