Lisa
Naughton, Professor, Geography
lnaughton@wisc.edu; 262-2846
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.
Kurt Brown,
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
kdbrown@wisc.edu; 262-8029
Interest/Expertise: 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.
Carol Enseki,
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies
csenseki@wisc.edu; 263-3185
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.
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.
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).