[ESSP] FW: environmental Anthropology/Sociology at Florida International University- recruiting graduate students

[Vanessa Paulman]

> ANNOUNCING!!
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> Environmental Anthropology and Sociology at FIU
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> The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Florida International
> University (FIU) in Miami has recently become home to one of the
> largest
> concentrations of environmental anthropologists in the country.  We
> invite
> students to take advantage of this new opportunity to study with a
> growing
> community of scholars.  The breadth of expertise in the department and
> across the university allows students to work on research projects
> that draw
> upon a wide array of environmental anthropology and sociology
> approaches,
> and to engage with the politics of nature as they are contested on
> multiple
> sociospatial scales from the local to the global.  FIU's geographical
> location in Miami, next to the Everglades and as gateway to Latin
> America
> and the Caribbean, provides a uniquely stimulating research laboratory
> for
> studying issues of place, space, power and identity.  Moreover, the
> faculty
> in our department and at FIU in general constitutes one of the richest
> concentrations of Latin American and Caribbean scholars anywhere.
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> The Department of Sociology and Anthropology coordinates environmental
> study
> and research with FIU's Department of Environmental Studies, which
> emphasizes interdisciplinary environmental problem solving,
> sustainability
> of social and ecological systems, and natural resources management and
> policy.  Together we offer students with interests in the environment a
> vibrant community of scholars and fellow students.  Integral to our
> programs
> is an inter-departmental initiative to offer a Certificate in
> Sustainable
> Communities for graduate students and professionals who wish to gain
> familiarity with social science methods and theories as they apply to
> the
> environment.  We are currently recruiting graduate students who wish to
> carry out research in environmental anthropology/sociology for MA and
> PhD
> degrees, as well as non-degree seeking professionals who wish to
> obtain a
> Certificate in Sustainable Communities.
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> Our program considers human interactions with the environment at local,
> regional, national and global scales, and seeks to integrate knowledge
> from
> social and natural sciences.  Faculty engage in research on a wide
> variety
> of issues including natural resource management, conservation and
> development, environmental bureaucracies, environmental politics and
> environmental activism; medical anthropology, ethnoecology, and
> ethnobotanical knowledge; landscape history and historical ecology;
> environmental values, environmental journalism, risk and disaster
> studies,
> and public perceptions of environmental risk.  The department's
> environmental faculty members have active research projects in the U.S.
> (especially the Everglades), Mexico, Belize, and Peru.
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> For additional information including lists of courses and faculty
> biographies,
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> please see below and for application information please consult our
> webpage:
> http://www.fiu.edu/orgs/socant/home/home.htm
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> For questions and inquiries please contact the
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> Director of Graduate Studies, Professor Sarah J. Mahler at
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> socantgr at fiu.edu
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> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
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> Courses Offered in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology:
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> Migration and Environmental Change  SYD 6901/ EVR 5935 (Zarger)
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> Environmental Anthropology ANT 3403/ANG 5403 (Mathews)
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> Everglades Cultural History ANT 4211 (02)/EVR-4934 (05) (Ogden)
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> American Culture and Society: Landscape and Power: ANT 5318 (Ogden)
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> Anthropology of Food: ANT 4211.02 (Mathews)
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> Environmental Conflicts and Political Ecology ANT 4211.01 (Mathews)
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> GIS and Social Research SYD 6901 (Gladwin, Tardanico)
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> American Indian Ethnology ANT 4312-U01 (Wiedman)
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> Applied Anthropology SYD 6901-U01 (Wiedman)
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> Graduate Medical Anthropology ANT 6469 (Wiedman)
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> Native American Religions ANT 4211/IDS 4920/ REL 3380 (Wiedman)
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> Courses currently being developed:
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>             Development and Indigenous Peoples (Greene/Mathews)
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>             Historical Ecology/Landscape History (Ogden/Mathews)
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>             Eco-Capitalism and Cultural Politics (Greene)
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>             Latin American Social Movements (Greene, Mathews)
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>             Ethnoecology (Zarger)
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>             Conservation, Communities and Globalization (Zarger)
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> Relevant Courses in Other Departments:
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>      Department of Environmental Studies:
>             Population and Environment Issues  EVR 4415C (Zarger)
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>             Principles of Sustainable Development EVR  4934 (Scattone)
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> Human Organizations and Ecosystem Management EVR 4415 (Bray, Zarger)
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> Restoration Ecology EVR 4934 (Hartley)
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> Deep Ecology EVR 4934 (Pliske)
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> Political Economy of the Environment EVR 5935 (Scattone)
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> Tropical Ecosystems Management EVR 5330 (Bray)
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> Protected Areas Management EVR 5360 (Heinen)
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>     Department of International Relations:
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> Space, Place and Identity, INR/GEO 6473, (Neumann/Hollander)
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> Global Food System GEO 4354 (Hollander)
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> Faculty And Research Interests:
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> Hugh Gladwin, Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology.
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> Prof. Gladwin directs FIU's Institute for Public Opinion Research. His
> main
> interest is the application of survey research and cultural analysis to
> understand culturally and demographically diverse urban settings. His
> particular interest is in modeling interactions between the human
> population
> and natural systems such as the South Florida ecosystem and extreme
> natural
> events like hurricanes. As someone who is both an anthropologist and
> survey
> researcher, he finds geographic information systems (GIS) the most
> useful
> research tool, one that enables ethnography to communicate with
> statistical
> sampling in studying regions inhabited by millions of people. He is a
> co-editor of Hurricane Andrew: Ethnicity, Gender, and the Sociology of
> Disaster.
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> Shane Greene, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology.
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> Prof. Greene does research on indigenous rights movements, ethnic
> politics,
> environmental-indigenous alliances, and biodiversity prospecting
> issues in
> Latin America, focusing particularly on the Amazonian and Andean
> regions of
> South America and Peru.  His recent publications analyze indigenous
> peoples
> claims to consider their traditional medical knowledge a form of
> cultural
> property deserving of legal and economic recognition by states,
> international organizations, and transnational pharmaceutical
> interests.
> His research and teaching interests are broadly informed by
> contemporary
> work on globalization, political-economy and political ecology, and
> critical
> development studies.
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>  Andrew Mathews  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology.
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> Prof. Mathews is interested in the ways in which states construct
> knowledge
> about nature and society, and in how this knowledge is modified or
> altered
> by popular resistance to state making. His current research focuses on
> forestry and conservation institutions in Mexico, exploring the
> development
> of state and community forestry institutions over the last century, and
> investigating how state interventions transformed local understandings
> of
> the role of fire in agriculture and forest management. His areas of
> interest
> include international conservation and development institutions, the
> history
> of state-making in Latin America, as well as anthropology of science,
> environmental history and historical ecology. He is working on a book
> on the
> construction of forestry in Mexico, tentatively titled Forestry
> Culture:
> Knowledge, Institutions and Power in Mexican Forest Management
> 1926-2001.
> Dr. Mathews teaches courses in Environmental Anthropology,
> Environmental
> Conflicts, and the Anthropology of Food.
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>  Laura Ogden  Assistant Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology.
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> Prof. Ogden is interested in how people invest "natural" landscapes
> with
> cultural significance. Her current research is with gladesmen in the
> Florida
> Everglades, white settlers who traditionally supported themselves by
> alligator hunting and commercial fishing. In her research, she
> documents how
> the gladesmen's Everglades resonates with economic, historic and mythic
> associations. She also explores how these "local" landscape
> constructions
> intersect with and diverge from ecological or scientific
> understandings. She
> is the co-author (with Glen Simmons) of an oral history Gladesmen:
> Alligator
> Hunters, Moonshiners, and Skiffers and is currently working on a
> manuscript
> entitled The Ashley Gang: A Landscape Poetics. Her areas of interest
> include
> the history and theory of ethnography, experimental writing, and
> environmental anthropology (particularly political ecology and
> landscape
> approaches). In addition, she works with state and federal agencies
> involved
> in Everglades Restoration initiatives to develop social science
> research
> planning and public engagement strategies.
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> Dennis Wiedman  Associate Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology.
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> Prof. Wiedman is the department's coordinator of undergraduate
> studies. His
> interests include medical anthropology, North American Indians,
> organizational culture, applied anthropology, and ecological
> anthropology.
> His special research interest is the increase of diabetes with
> modernization. His fieldwork extends from the Seminole of South
> Florida, to
> the Delaware, Apache, and Cherokee of Oklahoma, to the Inupiat of
> Alaska.
> Publications include Ethnohistory: A Researcher's Guide, as well as
> articles
> in Human Organization, Medical Anthropology, and the Journal of the
> American
> Dietetic Association. He was co-general editor of the NAPA Bulletin,
> and
> treasurer of the Society for Applied Anthropology. He is on the
> executive
> board of the American Anthropological Association.
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> Rebecca Zarger Assistant Professor,
> Sociology/Anthropology/Environmental
> Studies.
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> Prof. Zarger is a cultural anthropologist who conducts research on
> environmental knowledge, ethnographies of childhood, and land use
> change and
> conservation in Central America. She has a joint appointment with the
> Department of Environmental Studies. Her work has focused on how
> subsistence
> knowledge is learned, taught, and transformed in Q'eqchi' Maya
> communities
> in Belize. She co-edited the book, Ethnobiology and Biocultural
> Diversity
> and is currently working on a manuscript titled, Situating Practice,
> Transforming the Landscape: Social Reproduction of Q'eqchi'
> Environmental
> Knowledge. Prior to coming to FIU, Dr. Zarger worked with the Human
> Dimensions of Global Change Committee of the National Academies of
> Science
> in Washington, D.C. on public participation in environmental decision
> making. Dr. Zarger teaches courses in Ethnoecology, Population and
> Environment Issues, Migration and Environmental Change; and
> Conservation,
> Communities, and Globalization.
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> Affiliated Faculty:
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> David Bray  Professor , Department of Environmental Studies.
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> Prof. Bray conducts research on community natural resource management
> in
> Latin America, particularly southern Mexico. He is carrying out applied
> research on grassroots organizational dynamics, policy processes, and
> forest
> and agroforestry management with a community organization in central
> Quintana Roo, Mexico. The organization has been sustainably managing
> nearly
> 500,000 hectares of dry tropical forest and related ecosystems for
> over 15
> years, but are facing major challenges in managing their mahogany
> (swietenia
> macrophylla) resources as well as many lesser-known tropical species.
> He
> also conducts research on sustainable agriculture, particularly the
> social
> dimensions of organic coffee production and is writing up a four-year
> study
> of the social and economic impact of organic coffee production in
> Chiapas,
> Mexico.
>
>
>
> Rod Neumann  Associate Professor, Department of International
> Relations.
>
> Prof. Neumann's interests include social theory and human-environment
> relations as well as African studies and political ecology.  He travels
> frequently to Africa, especially Tanzania, studying the cultural and
> historical roots of political conflict between peasantries and
> conservation
> advocates, landscape representation and social constructions of nature
> in
> European colonialism, contemporary development initiatives, and the
> introduction of modernity in Africa.  His research has been published
> in
> Antipode, Society and Space, and Development and Change, among others.
>  In
> 1994-1995, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University in James
> Scott's
> Program for Agrarian Studies, where he wrote Imposing Wilderness:
> Struggles
> over Livelihood and Nature Preservation in Africa (University of
> California
> Press, 1998).  In 1997, the National Science Foundation awarded him a
> research grant for a three-year study of the relationships among
> property
> rights, environmental conservation, and social change in Tanzania.
> Before
> joining the FIU faculty, Prof. Neumann worked for seven years as a
> wilderness ranger with the U.S. Forest Service; he also holds a
> graduate
> degree in forestry and international development from the University of
> Idaho.
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>  Gail M. Hollander  Assistant Professor: Department of International
> Relations
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> Prof. Hollander's research and theoretical interests include: Economic
> Geography, World Food System Theory, Geography of Florida and the
> Caribbean,
> Feminist Geography, Regional Development, Agro-Environmental Conflict.
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> Emeriti Faculty
> William T. Vickers, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology
> Prof. Vickers has conducted ethnological fieldwork in Ecuador, Peru,
> and
> Mexico, focusing primarily on the human ecology of indigenous
> communities,
> native land and civil rights, and frontier development. He is
> particularly
> interested in studying the interrelationships among people, nature, and
> culture and how these evolve through time. Issues include the
> sustainability
> of hunting around native Amazonian settlements, the dynamics of
> shifting
> cultivation, forest resource use and ethnobotany, and the determinants
> of
> settlement patterns in Amazonian societies. He has written on frontier
> expansion and how it affects indigenous societies, including their
> social
> and political responses to externally-imposed pressures. Professor
> Vickers'
> books include Los Sionas y Secoyas: Su Adaptación al Ambiente
> Amazónico,
> Useful Plants of the Siona and Secoya Indians and Adaptive Responses of
> Native Amazonians. He been a Fulbright Fellow in Ecuador, a National
> Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the School of American Research
> in
> Santa Fe, and a Doherty Foundation Fellow.
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>
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> Janet R. Chernela Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Sociology/Anthropology
>
> Prof. Chernela has taught in the graduate faculty of Florida
> International
> University, and as Adjunct Professor at Columbia University and
> Georgetown
> University. In addition, she served as Assistant to the Curator of
> South
> American Ethnology of the American Museum of Natural History in the
> preparation of a permanent hall on South American Indians and as
> Research
> Professor at INPA, the National Institute of Amazonian Research in
> Brazil.
> She joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2003.  Prof.
> Chernela has conducted fieldwork among indigenous peoples in the
> Brazilian
> Amazon for over twenty-five years and is author of the book, The Wanano
> Indians of the Brazilian Amazon: A Sense of Space as well as sixty
> articles
> on issues of indigenous peoples, conservation policy, gender, and
> language.
> Recent publications by Chernela discuss a grassroots community
> development
> project among riverine peoples at Silves, in the central Brazilian
> Amazon, a
> site to which Dr. Chernela has also led an overseas study program.
> Prof.
> Chernela has served as a consultant to NGOs, including Cultural
> Survival,
> the Nature Conservancy, Ford Foundation, and the Coolidge Center for
> Environmental Leadership. Projects she proposed for international
> conservation NGOs include a restoration plan for lands devastated by
> gold
> mining in the Yanomami regions of Brazil; a resource management and
> tourism
> plan for seven indigenous groups on the Venezuela-Brazil border; and a
> study
> abroad program among the Kayapo Indians of Brazil.  With indigenous
> women
> living in the urban center, Manaus, Brazil, Chernela was founder of
> AMARN,
> the Association for Women of the Upper Rio Negro, the first Amerindian
> women's association in Brazil and its longest-lived Brazilian
> indigenous
> organization.  Prof. Chernela serves as Chari of the Committe for Human
> Rights of the American Anthropological Association (AAA); member of the
> Executive Committee of the Brazilian Studies Association, and is
> President
> elect of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America.
> She is
> former member of the AAA Task Force to look into allegations regarding
> research activities among the Yanomami of Venezuela and Brazil and was
> appointed to the Association's newly formed Commission on Indigenous
> People.
> She is on the editorial boards of the journals Hemisphere and the
> Journal of
> Latin American Anthropology.
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> Andrew S. Mathews
> Assistant Professor, Anthropology
> Department of Sociology & Anthropology
> DM 342C, Florida International University
> University Park Campus, Miami, FL 33199
> Tel: 305-348-2247
> e-mail: mathewsa at fiu.edu
> Home Page: http://www.fiu.edu/~mathewsa/
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