People

Director:
Pete Brosius is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia and director of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research.  As well, he teaches in a graduate program that is focused on Ecological and Environmental Anthropology. He serves as an associate editor of the journal Human Ecology, was past president of the Anthropology and Environment Section, American Anthropological Association, is a member of the IUCN Commission on Economic, Environmental and Social Policy (CEESP) Co-Management Working Group and the World Commission on Protected Areas/CEESP Theme on Indigenous and Local Communities, Equity and Protected Areas (TILCEPA).  In 2005, Dr. Brosius was awarded the Lourdes Arizpe Award in Anthropology and Environment.  Dr. Brosius' research in Environmental Anthropology focuses on political ecology and on the cultural politics of conservation at both local and global scales.  Previously, his research focused on international environmental politics in Sarawak, especially as this pertained to the international campaign focused on Penan.  Recently he has been working with the Kelabit community in Sarawak to develop a project called “Protected Area Planning and Implementation in Pulong Tau National Park.”  In conjunction with the ACSC initiative, he continues a research trajectory focused on global conservation and the politics of scale, with a particular focus on ecoregional planning and conservation finance.  Brosius has published in journals such as American Anthropologist, Current Anthropology, Conservation Biology, Ambio, Global Environmental Change, Society and Natural Resources, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Identities and Human Ecology.

Administrator:
Katie Hendricks came to the ACSC project in September 2008.  She will be coordinating website management for www.tradeoffs.org, network development activities, information dissemination, communication with research partners and administration of the Center for Integrative Conservation Research.  Prior to this, Katie worked at the UGA Physical Plant Division, Human Resources Department. She graduated from Western Washington University in 2003 with a B.A. in English Literature. In 2003 she traveled to Guatemala as a missionary intern with the James Project Latino to Sombra De Sus Alas Orphanage.

Student Associates:
Emily Carter

Kate Dunbar is a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department at the University of Georgia (UGA), serving as a research assistant for Dr. Brosius. Her dissertation project will focus on adaptive strategies of rural communities in the Peruvian Andes, specifically with regard to changes in water availability resulting from climate variability or change. She will also explore how the decentralization process or other national and international trends in water management may be affecting these strategies. Prior to beginning graduate school at UGA, she worked for Environmental Resources Management (ERM), an environmental and social consulting firm in Washington, D.C., collaborating with donors, industry, governments and non-governmental organizations to achieve development goals with an eye towards both environmental sustainability and local/stakeholder participation.

Caitlin Gleave

Ted Maclin is a research assistant for the ACSC project and doctoral student in the Anthropology Department at the University of Georgia (UGA). His interests include the social construction of knowledge, particularly scientific knowledge and ideas of "nature," and the ways that knowledge is transformed through social processes. His research will focus on networked knowledge and decision making within the World Wildlife Fund International--specifically looking at ways that competing knowledges are created, denied, legitimated, and transformed within a transnational conservation organization. Before returning to graduate school at UGA, he received his M.S. in Botany from the University of Tennessee and worked for ten years managing environmental education programs at Brooklyn Botanic Garden in New York. He is also a member of the unofficial UGA Anthropology Department band, the Rough Bark Candyroasters.

Rebecca Witter is a research assistant for the ACSC project and a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Georgia.  Her dissertation, “Trees, Trails, and Traces of Territory in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park” examines the relationship between customary resource tenure and transfrontier conservation in Southern Africa.   Focusing on a series of mobility events that occurred over the last century, Witter is mapping the history of Maluleke territory in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park through oral histories, kinship, and, perhaps unexpectedly, trees.  She completed her field research in July 2007 and is currently writing.  Witter’s principal fields of interest include:  Political Ecology, Historical Ecology, Environmental History, Human Migration, Southern Africa, Brazil, and lazily kayaking the southeastern coast of United States.