Lisa Naughton, Director
Kurt Brown, Communications Director
Carol Enseki, Financial Administration
LTC Affiliates
Director
Professor, Geography, lnaughto@wisc.edu, 262-4846
Research interests: Political economy of rural development; political ecology; social justice and access to resources; resource-related conflict; common property resource management; decentralization and participatory forms of conservation and development; impacts of resource privatization.
Communications director
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, kdbrown@wisc.edu, 262-8029
Interests: Developing and managing communication strategies, especially with regard to development projects; aiding developing countries' ability to access and use information; outreach to audiences of development policy.
Financial administration
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, csenseki@wisc.edu, 263-3185
LTC Affiliates
Jennfier Alix-Garcia, Assistant Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, jmalixgarcia@usfca.edu, 262-3946
Common property deforestation, payments for environmental services, and inequality and natural resource exploitation. Current projects examine the impact of displaced populations on host communities and the effect of inequality in determining civic participation.
Teri Allendorf, Honorary Fellow, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, and Manager, China IGERT Program, allendorf@wisc.edu, 262-3946
Human dimensions of biodiversity and conservation, park-people relationships, community-based conservation, biodiversity values and attitudes. Nepal, Myanmar, and China.
Brad Barham, Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, barham@aae.wisc.edu, 262-8966
Land use issues in Central America, conservation and development in the Peruvian Amazon, agricultural biotechnology adoption in the US, and the impact of academic patenting on the direction and pace of university research.
Peter Bloch, Faculty Associate and Senior Scientist, Forest Ecology and Management, pcbloch@wisc.edu, 262-0249
Social justice and access to land based resources; social conflict and land resources; social institutions, resource management and environmental change; property institutions, land quality, and socioeconomic development; land law and policy; access to land and housing in urban area; global.
Katherine Bowie, Professor, Anthropology, kabowie@wisc.edu, 262-2132
Historical and political anthropology; Thailand/Southeast Asia.
Daniel Bromley, Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, dbromley@wisc.edu, 262-6184
Primary research area concerns the process of immiserization in sub-Saharan Africa. Second research interest concerns U.S. commercial fisheries policy and management
Michael Carter, Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, mrcarter@wisc.edu, 263-2478
Economics of asset accumulation and how the distribution of land shapes, and is shaped by, economic growth; economic liberalization and the land access of the rural poor; trust, social capital and the reproduction of inequality; income distribution dynamics in South Africa.
Jean-Paul Chavas, Professor, Agricultural and Applied Economics, chavas@aae.wisc.edu, 261-1944
Efficiency and equity issues in resource access; resource allocation and policy design, with a special focus on food security, poverty, productivity growth, and Africa.
Jane Collins, Professor, Rural Sociology and Women's Studies, jcollins@ssc.wisc.edu, 265-6482
Labor process, farming systems, gender, development studies, cultural studies; Latin America; qualitative methods.
James Delehanty, Faculty Associate, International Studies and Programs, jmdeleha@wisc.edu, 262-4458
Historical geography, land use change, and land tenure in the Sahel; environmental contexts of changing livestock production systems and improved livestock disease control in East Africa.
Michael Dockry, Liaison to College of Menominee Nation, USDA Forest Service mdockry@fs.fed.us, (715) 799-6226 ext. 3222
Sustainable forest management, indigenous community forestry, social aspects of sustainable forestry, forest and natural resource planning, sustainable development, and environmental history. American Indian communities in the United States with a focus on Wisconsin and Indigenous communities in Latin America with a focus on Bolivia.
Jess Gilbert, Professor, Rural Sociology, gilbert@ssc.wisc.edu, 262-9530
Landlord-tenant relations in agriculture and the history of farm policy and land-use planning in the 20th-century US, especially the innovative and progressive programs of the New Deal; rural landownership and control among American Indians and African-Americans, including the decline in their farm numbers as well as strategies for increased ownership/control; land and democracy (e.g., civic participation, community wellbeing, and political engagement).
Leila Harris, Assistant Professor, Geography, lharris@geography.wisc.edu, 265-0531
Social justice and access to land (and water!) based resources, social conflict and land resources, social institutions, resource management and environmental change (specifically efforts to foster democratic resource management); and gender issues.
Harvey M. Jacobs, Professor, Urban & Regional Planning, Gaylord Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, hmjacobs@wisc.edu, 262-0552
Public policy for land use and environmental management. Social and political factors influencing policy adoption and implementation. Social construction of property rights, and social discourse over these rights. Global spread of private property as a social institution. Conservative challenges to mainstream land use and environmental movements, specifically in the U.S. and western Europe. Public policy for peri-urban land management. Country/region focus--north America, western Europe, eastern Europe, southern Africa.
Jack Kloppenburg, Associate Professor, Rural Sociology, jrkloppe@facstaff.wisc.edu, 262-6867
Sustainable agriculture; food sovereignty; political economy of genetic resource; participatory approaches.
Heinz Klug, Associate Professor, Law School, klug@wisc.edu; 262-7370
Land reform and restitution in South Africa.
Jane Larson, Professor, Law School, janelarson@wisc.edu; 262-7367
Land and housing at the US-Mexico border; land use regulation; informal land and housing.
Susana Lastarria, Senior Scientist, Urban and Regional Planning, slastarr@wisc.edu, 262-0097
Social justice and access to land-based resources, social conflict and land resources, property institutions, land quality, and socioeconomic development; Latin America, Africa, Eastern Europe.
Paul Nadasdy, Assistant Professor, Anthropology and American Indian Studies, penadasdy@wisc.edu, 262-2187
Aboriginal-state relations, land claim negotiations, property, landscape, human-environment relations, the anthropology of science and knowledge, the politics of wildlife management, Yukon, Canada, circumpolar North.
Kris Olds, Professor, Geography, kolds@wisc.edu, 262-5685
Urban (re)development processes, urban governance, forced evictions and other forms of involuntary displacement, urban mega-projects, housing rights, and housing rights NGOs.
Joshua Posner, Professor, Agronomy, jlposner@wisc.edu, 262-0876
Farming and landscape management in the tropics and farming and food systems (in Wisconsin); Upper Midwest, West Africa, Latin America (the Andes) and SW China (Himalayas).
Jess Reed, Professor, Animal Science, jdreed@wisc.edu, 263-4310
The relationship between land tenure and access to land and livestock production in developing countries and newly independent states, with emphasis on central Asia, China and Africa.
Adrian Treves, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies, atreves@wisc.edu, 890-1450
Human dimensions of wildlife management and conservation, with fieldwork currently conducted in Wisconsin, Ecuador, and South Africa. Conservation planning, with a current collaboration with a team in Bolivia to document the stakeholder participation, expert technical input, and policy process for selecting interventions to mitigate human-wildlife conflicts.
Aili Tripp, Associate Professor, Political Science and Women's Studies; Associate Dean, International Studies; Director, Women's Studies Research Center, tripp@polisci.wisc.edu, 273-1873
Gender and politics; gender and development, Africa.
Matt Turner, Professor, Geography, mturner2@wisc.edu, 262-2465
Cultural ecology, political economy, environmental monitoring, Africa.
Stephen Ventura, Professor, Soil Science, sventura@wisc.edu, 262-6416
Land information systems and related GIS for land management and planning.
Neil Whitehead, Professor, Anthropology and Religious Studies, nlwhiteh@facstaff.wisc.edu, 262-2866
South America; indigenous peoples
Jack Williams, Assistant Professor, Geography, jww@geography.wisc.edu, 608-265-5537
Ecological responses to climate change and the two-way interactions between the terrestrial biosphere and atmosphere. Focus on late-Quaternary vegetational and environmental change.
Lydia Zepeda , Professor, Consumer Science, lzepeda@wisc.edu, 262-9487
Economics of producing and consuming food; agricultural technology adoption; the structure of agriculture; farm family labor allocation, especially the role of women and children; international labeling policies of genetically engineered foods; demand for organic, local and indigenous foods; US and Latin America (with some work in Australia and Europe).
Alberto Vargas (no picture), Associate Director, 209 Ingraham Hall, 608-262-2811, avargasp@wisc.edu
Institutional, social and technical aspects of community-based natural resource management and the conservation of natural resources. Extensive work in Central America, the Caribbean, and Mexico.
Adena Rissman,
Assistant Professor
Forest and Wildlife Ecology
111 Russell Laboratories
1630 Linden Dr
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-4356
arrissman@wisc.edu
Management, conservation, and sustainable use of forest and range ecosystems. This research addresses the social and ecological drivers and outcomes of conservation strategies at the landscape scale.