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Kenneth (Andy) Andrews
is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research examines social movements, political institutions, and social change. [more]

Richard (Pete) Andrews is Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Professor of Public Policy at UNC-Chapel Hill. He has written extensively on environmental policy in the United States and elsewhere for over thirty years, particularly on the history of U.S. environmental policy, the National Environmental Policy Act and environmental impact assessment, and most recently the use of environmental management systems by businesses and government. [more]

Lisa Campbell is the Rachel Carson Assistant Professor of Marine Affairs and Policy at the Nicholas School of Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University. Her research focuses on policies and projects designed to reconcile wildlife (and other resource) conservation with socio-economic development, primarily in rural areas of developing countries, with a concentration in coastal Costa Rica. [more]

Peter Coclanis is Albert R. Newsome Professor of History and Associate Provost for International Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill. He works in the fields of American, international, and Southeast Asian economic history, and has published widely in these fields. [more]

Carole Crumley is Professor of Anthropology, a member of the Curriculum in Ecology faculty, and a Fellow in the Carolina Environmental Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research interests are diverse and include: historical landscape ecology; social, political, and economic elements of land use practice, ethnography; and global environmental change. [more]

Barbara Entwisle is professor of sociology and Director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a social demographer interested in population dynamics and demographic responses to social change, mostly in developing countries. [more]

Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies. He has published extensively on the topics of: political ecology, the anthropology of development, social movement theory, and science and technology studies. He is the author of several books, including a now-classic piece on Development politics, Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (Princeton University Press, Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History 1994). [more]

Jan French received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University in 2003. She is currently teaching classes at both Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame (Fall 2005) and the Center for the Humanities and Study of Culture at Northwestern University (2004-2005). [more]

Robert G. Healy is Professor of Environmental Policy at the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke. Trained as a regional economist, virtually all of his work in his 35-year career has dealt with some aspect of land use. [more]

Dorothy Holland is Cary C. Boshamer Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A former chair of the Department and past President of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, she studies identity and sociocultural processes in the formation and development of social movements (esp. the environmental movement) and grassroots activism. [more]

Joseph Kalo is Graham Kenan Professor of Law in the University of North Carolina Law School. He is also Co-Director of the North Carolina Coastal Resources Law, Planning and Policy Center. He has taught classes on Coastal Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, and Property. [more]

Paul Leslie pursues research on demographic anthropology, human ecology and population biology, primarily in East Africa. His work deals with the interface of biology and culture in an ecological context. [more]

Lauren Leve is an assistant professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An anthropologist by training, her research focus on the areas and intersections of religion, gender, development, agrarian studies, law, postcolonial subjectivity and the cultural dynamics of transnational practices and processes. [more]

Pia McDonald is assistant research professor in department of Epidemiology at UNC Chapel Hill and Director of the Center for Public Health Preparedness. She conducts research in areas of epidemiology of HIV and other Sexually Transmitted Illnesses, epidemiology of foodborne diseases, and public health surveillance. [more]

Anthony Oberschall is professor emeritus and instructor in UNC-Duke Rotary International Program in Peace and Conflict Resolution. His work on collective action is considered part of the seminal literature, with his book Social Conflict and Social Movements (1973: New Brunswick Press). [more]

Michael D. Schulman is Alumni Distinguished Graduate Professor and Professor of Sociology at North Carolina State University and Adjunct Professor of Health Behavior and Health Education at the UNC School of Public Health. He is co-editor of Communities of Work: Rural Restructuring in Local and Global Contexts (Ohio University Press, 2004). [more]

Karla Slocum is assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology and Department of African and Afro-American Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the relationships between place, race and identity in both the global banana industry of St. Lucia and the American South. [more]

Orin Starn is Sally Dalton Robinson Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He is the author of Nightwatch: The Politics of Protest in the Andes (Duke, 1999) and Ishi's Brain: In Search of America's Last "Wild" Indian (Norton, 2005), and is broadly interested in the politics of land, nature, and globalization in the Americas. [more]

Meenu Tewari is Assistant Professor of Economic and International Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the political economy of development, agrarian change, local industrialization, small firms, and the informal economy, primarily in South Asia, and recently in the US South. [more]

Ronald Wimberley is William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor at North Carolina State University. He has researched and published extensively in the fields of African-American “black-belt” farm histories and experiences, as well as rural restructuring in the United States more broadly. [more]

Thomas Whitmore primarily works in the cultural ecology, demography, and agriculture of pre-Columbian Amerindian groups in Latin America. His research interests include using computer simulations to analyze the dynamics of the Amerindian population collapse in 16th C Mexico and southern Peru. [more]

Wendy Wolford is Assistant Professor of Geography at UNC Chapel Hill. Her work has focused on social mobilization in rural Brazil, with a co-authored book published in 2003, To Inherit the Earth (Food First Press) on the Rural Landless Workers’ Movement in South and Northeast Brazil. [more]

 

 

 

This Sawyer Seminar, funded by the Mellon Foundation, includes a year-long series of working group meetings
and mini-conferences on the central theme of globalization and the land. It is hosted by UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.