ARUN AGRAWAL: Curriculum Vitae
Contact Information
School of Natural Resources
and Environment, University of Michigan, Dana Building, 430 E. University
Ann Arbor MI 48103
Email: arunagra@umich.edu.
Phone: 734 647 5948.
Education
PhD: Political Science, Duke
University, 1986-1992.
MA: Political Science, Duke
University, 1986-88.
MBA: Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad, India, 1983-85 (Specialization in Development
Administration and Public Policy).
BA: History, Delhi University,
India, 1980-83.
Work Experience
2008 - current: Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan.
September 2003 - 2008: Associate
Professor,
2002-2003: Associate
Professor. And William Dawson Scholar (Since January 2003),
July 2000-June 2002:
Associate Professor,
July 1997-June 2000:
Assistant Professor,
January 1993-July 1997:
Assistant Professor,
Publications
Books
-- 1999. Greener Pastures:
Politics, Markets, and Community among a Migrant Pastoral People.
-- Forthcoming (2005). Environmentality:
Technologies of Government and Political Subjects (Duke University Press).
Monograph
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1999. Decentralization in
Edited Volumes
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2003. Regional Modernities: The Cultural
Politics of Development.
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2002. Indigenous Knowledge. Invited
editor of a Special Issue of International
Social Science Journal (September 173). (Published in English, French, and
Spanish by UNESCO).
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2001. Communities and the Environment:
Ethnicity, Gender, and the State in Community-Based Conservation.
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2000. Agrarian Environments: Resources,
Representations and Rule in
Refereed Articles
2009. Conservation and Displacement: An Overview. Conservation and Society 7(1):1-10. (with Kent Redford)
2008. Changing Governance of the World's Forests. Science 320, 1460-1462. (with Ashwini Chhatre and Rebecca Hardin)
2008. (with Ashwini Chhatre) Forest Commons and Local Enforcement. PNAS vo. 105, no. 36:13286-13291.
2007. State Involvement and Forest Co-Governance: Evidence from the Indian Himalayas. Studies in Comparative Internatinal Development. 42:67-86. (with Ashwini Chhatre)
2007. Fourteen Years of Monitoring Community-Managed Forests: Learning from IFRI's Experience. International Forestry Review 9(2).
2005. Environmentality: Community, intimate government and environmental subjects in
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2003. Sustainable Governance of Common-Pool Resources: Context, Methods,
Politics. Annual Review of Anthropology
32: 243-62.
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2002. Indigenous Knowledges and the Politics of Classification. International Social Science Journal
(September, 173): 325-36. (Published in English, French, and Spanish)
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2001. Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of Resources. World Development 29(10): 1649-72.
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2001. Collective Action, Property Rights and Decentralization in Resource Use
in
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2001. The Regulatory Community: Decentralization and the Environment in the Van
Panchayats (
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2001. State Formation in Community Spaces: The
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2001. Group Size and Collective Action: Third Party Monitoring in Common Pool
Resources. Comparative Political Studies
34(1): 63-93. (With Sanjeev Goyal).
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2001. Common Property Theories and
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2000. Environmental Orientalisms. Cultural
Critique. #45: 71-108. (With S.
Sawyer).
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2000. Transboundary Resources and Adaptive Management. Environmental Conservation. 27(4): 326-33.
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1999. Accountability in Decentralization: A Framework with South Asian and West
African cases. Journal of Developing
Areas 33(Summer): 473-502. (with Jesse Ribot).
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1999. Enchantment and Disenchantment: The Role of Community in Natural Resource
Conservation. World Development.
27(4): 629-49. (With Clark Gibson). (Reprinted in Conflict Prevention and
Resolution in Water Systems, edited by Aaron Wolf.
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1998. Profits on the Move: The Raika Shepherds of
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1997. The Politics of Development and Conservation: The Legacy of Colonialism. Peace and Change 22(4): 463-82.
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1997. How do Local Institutions Mediate the Impact of Market and Population
Pressures on Resource Use. Development
and Change 28(3): 435-65 (With Gautam Yadama).
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1997. Shepherds and their Leaders among the Raikas of
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1996. Poststructuralist Approaches to Development: Some Reflections. Peace and Change 21(4): 464-77.
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1996. The Community versus the Market and the State. Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 9(1): 1-15.
-- 1995. Dismantling the Divide between Indigenous and Western Knowleddge. Development and Change. 26(3): 413-39.
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1994. Mobility and Control among Nomadic Shepherds: The Case of the Raikas, II. Human Ecology 22(2): 131-44.
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1993. Mobility and Cooperation among Nomadic Shepherds: The Case of the Raikas.
Human Ecology, 21(3): 261-79.
Book Chapters
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2003. Regional Modernities. In Regional
Modernities: Cultural Politics of Development. Eds. K. Sivaramakrishnan and
Arun Agrawal. Stanford University Press. Fall 2003. (With K. Sivaramakrishnan).
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2003. Indigenous Decision-making and
Hierarchy in Migrating Pastoralist Collectives: The Raikas of Western
India. In Nomadism in South Asia,
edited by Aparna Rao and Michael Casimir. Pp. 419-47. Delhi: Oxford University
Press.
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2002 Environmental Capacity Building: India’s Democratic Politics and
Environmental Management in Capacity Building in National Environmental Policy:
A Comparative Study of 17 Countries, edited by Helmut Weidner and Martin
Janicke, pp. 239-60, Berlin: Springer-Verlag (with Noriko Yokozuka).
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2002. Common Resources and Sustainable Governance. In Institutions for Managing the Commons.
(eds) Elinor Ostrom, Thomas Dietz, Nives Dolsak, Paul Stern, Susan Stonich, and
Elke Weber. Pp. 41-85, Washington DC: NAS Press (longer revised version of the
paper published in World Development
under the title “Common Property Institutions and Sustainable Governance of
Resources”)
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2001. Agrarian Environments. In Agrarian
Environments: Risks, Representations, and Rule in India. Eds. Arun Agrawal
and K. Sivaramakrishnan. Pp. 1-22. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. (With K.
Sivaramakrishnan.
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2000. Community and Natural Resource Conservation. In Nature, Production, Power: Towards an Ecological Political Economy.
Pp. 35-55. Eds. Fred Gale and R. Michael McGonigle. London, UK: Edward Elgar.
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2000. Small is Beautiful but is Larger Better: Forest Management Institutions
in the Kumaon Himalaya, India. In Clark Gibson, Margaret A. McKean, and Elinor
Ostrom (eds) People and Forests:
Communities, Institutions, and Governance. pp. 57-85. Cambridge: MIT Press.
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1999. Community-in-Conservation: Tracing the Outlines of an Enchanting Concept.
In Roger Jeffrey and Nandini Sundar (eds)
A New Moral Economy for India's
Forests: Discourses of Community and Participation. pp. 92-108. New Delhi :
Sage Publications.
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1998. Not Having One’s Cake, Nor Eating It: Intellectual Property and
Indigenous Knowledges. (In German). In Michael Flitner / Christoph Goerg /
Volker Heins (eds) Die politische Entwicklung der Natur: Neue Konflikte um
Biologische Ressourcen. Opladen: Leske & Budrich.
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1994. Rules, Rule-making and Rule-breaking. In Rules and Games, E. Ostrom, R. Gardner and J. Walker. pp. 267-82.
East Lansing: Michigan University Press.
Other Publications
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2002. Resource Institutions. Entry in the International
Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences. Eds. Neil Smelser and
Paul Baltes.
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2000. The Ethnographer’s Kaliyugaya: A comment. Current Anthropology.
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1997. Community-in-Conservation. Paper prepared for the Ford Foundation and the
Conservation and Development Forum. University of Florida, Gainesville.
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1995. Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge: Some Critical Comments. Comments and
response in Indigenous Knowledge and
Development Monitor 3(3-4), 4(1-2).
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1995. Population Pressure=Resource Degradation: An Oversimplistic equation? Unasylva. 46(2): 50-58.
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1994. I Don't Need it But You Can't Have it: Analyzing Institutional Conflicts
Between Farmers and Pastoralists. Pastoral Development Network 36a, London:
ODI, pp. 36-55.
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1993. Patenting Gene Fragments. Economic
and Political Weekly 28(22): 1089-93.
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1992. The Grass is Greener on the Other Side," IIED Issues Paper, London:
Overseas Development Institute.
Under Review
Work in Progress
-- Book manuscript entitled: Environmental Politics and Institutional Choice: Forestry and Wildlife
Policies in the Developing World. (A study of environmental policy change
during 1980-2000 in 58 countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America). Dataset
nearly complete. First draft of five chapters completed.
Selected
Awards, Grants, and Honors
2004-06:
Collaborative Research on Community Management of Forests in Developing
Countries. Ford Foundation (with Elinor Ostrom and Krister Andersson). 300K.
2003-04:
William Dawson Scholar, McGill University, Canada.
2003-2006:
Institutional Regimes and Their Impact on Resource Management Outcomes in
Himachal Pradesh, India. Social Science
and Humanities Research Council, Canada. (CA$ 124K)
2001-2004:
Globalization and Self Determination. Carnegie
Foundation (With Geoffrey Garrett and Gustav Ranis) (US$450K)
2001-02:
Visiting Fellow, Center for International Affair, Harvard University.
2000-2001:
Senior Faculty Fellowship, Yale University.
2000-03:
Grant from the MacArthur Foundation
to investigate decentralization and community based resource management (with
Elinor Ostrom) (US$455K)
1999:
Arthur Greer Memorial Research Prize in social and natural sciences for junior
faculty at Yale University.
1999-2002:
Rethinking Area Studies. Ford Foundation
(with Gustav Ranis, Patricia Pessar, and Eric Worby) (US$155K).
1999-2002:
Property Rights and Resource Condition. National
Science Foundation (US$85K).
1999-2001:
NGO Research Training Consortium grant, DfID,
England. (With David Mosse), in collaboration with Center for Development
Studies, Swansea. (US$220K) (Withdrawn from collaboration in 2000).
1997-2000:
Grants from MacArthur Foundation
(US$330K), UNDP (US$75K), and FAO (US$48K) to study Forest Management
in Arunachal Pradesh, India and Nepal, and Decentralization of Development
Administration in Nepal (With Elinor Ostrom).
1996-97:
Post-doctoral Fellow, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana
University, Bloomington.
1995-96:
Senior Scholars fellowship from the American
Institute for Indian Studies (AIIS) to carry out fieldwork in India on
indigenous knowledge of nomadic pastoralists (12K).
1995-96:
Postdoctoral fellowship, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.
1995-98:
Research grant from the Aspen Institute,
to support ongoing research on democratic consolidation and voluntarism in
India (US$38K).
1994-95:
Advanced Research Grant from the Social
Science Research Council, USA, to support research on community-based
forest management in the Indian Himalayas (US$15K).
1993:
"Best Dissertation in Political Economy" Award from the American Political Science Association.
1991-93:
Ciriacy-Wantrup post doctoral fellowship from the University of California at
Berkeley.
1991-95:
Research Grant from the World Wildlife
Fund, USA (US$25K) to study local institutions and resource use in Indian
and Bhutanese Himalayas. (Report submitted).
1990:
Research Grant from International
Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London to study the
migration patterns of Raikas, shepherds in India. (Report Submitted)
1989-90:
Population Council Fellowship for
dissertation field research.
1989-90:
Dissertation research grant from Forest
History Society. (Postponed until 1990-91).
1989:
Dissertation Research Grant from Institute
for the Study of World Politics (Not availed).
Field
Experience
1985-86:
13 months in India among NGOs in seven states.
1987:
Two months in India on role of grassroots development organizations in social
forestry programs.
1989-90:
12 months in the Thar Desert and the Western Himalayas in India on role of
community institutions in the use of commonly owned fodder and fuel resources.
1990:
4 months in the Thar Desert in India on the Raika migrant shepherd community.
1990:
3 weeks in Bhutan on indigenous institutions of forest resource use.
1992:
2 months in India among Raika shepherds.
1993:
2 months in Western Himalayas in India on village Forest Councils.
1997:
2 months in India and the Nepal Middle Himalaya.
1998:
3 weeks in Nepal.
2000:
1 month in Nepal
2002:
1 month in India and Nepal Middle Himlaya
Selected
Invited Presentations
2007: Do people matter in social science analyses of the environment? Paper presented at the Univesity of Otago New Zealand (March), Harvard University (April).
2007 Frebruary: Community institutions and resource governance. Paper presented at the World Bank, Social Development Conference on Mobilizing Rural Institutions. February 12.
2006 June: Environmental Governance, Community, and Pluralism. Paper presented at the Conference on "Facing social transformations in the 21st century: A conference on inequality, pluralism and environment. UNESCO-CERES, Utrecht University, 29-30 June.
2006: "Conservation and Displacement." WCS Workshop. White Oaks, Florida.
2006 May: "Institutional Choice and Resource Governance." CASA, Stanford University.
2006 April: "Qualitative Analysis of Regression Residuals." CID, Kennedy School, Harvard University.
2006 February: "Field research, science, and ethics: The role of radomized field trials in research on sustainable development." SSRC workshop, Cambridge.
2006 February: "Environmental Governance." CID, Kennedy School, Harvard University.
2005 December: "Property Rights, Politics, and Renewable Resource Governance in Developing Countries: 1980-2000. USAID, Washington DC.
2005 October: "The Making of Environmental Subjects," SED Group. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge.
2005 December: "Indigenous Power/Knowledge." Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.
2005 December: Field Research, Science, and Ethics. FES, Yale.
2005 October: "Environmentality." World Bank, Washington DC.
2005
January and February: Poverty Alleviation and Biodiverity Conservation,
Biodiversity: Science and Governance conference, Paris; MacArthur Foundation,
Arizona meeting.
2005
January: Chair and paper presenter: Biodiversity and appropriation regimes,
UNESCO, Paris.
2004
June: Indigenous Knowledge and Power (Plenary Speaker), International
Conference on Ethnobiology, Kent University, UK.
2004
June: Decentralization of resource policies in the developing world, 1980-2005.
Two seminars on presented at the CHAOS-Cambridge University Press seminar
series at University of Washington, Seattle.
2002
October: Making Ethnic Subjects. Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes
(LiCEP), UCLA.
2001
October: Reconfiguring the Politics of Nature. Columbia University.
2001
March: Environmentality: An Introduction. South Asian Studies and SNRE,
University of Michigan.
2001
February: The Indian Parliament: Political Institutions in India conference,
CFIA, Harvard University.
2000
December: Relevance of Common Property to Public Policy, LEAD-Mexico seminar,
El Colegio de Mexico.
2000
November: State formation and Resource Management. Institute for Globalization
Studies, University of Minnesota.
2000
September: The Visible Hand: Markets and Exchange among Raika Migrant Shepherds
in India. History Department Workshop, Princeton University.
2000
September: Sustainability on the Commons. National Academy of Sciences,
Pocantico, New York.
2000
March: Group Size and Collective Action: Third Party Monitoring of Common Pool
Resources. South Asian Studies Colloquium, Harvard University.
1999
November: Environmentality: Forest politics in Kumaon, 1860-2000. Environmental
Studies, Emory University.
1999
June: Transboundary Parks and Adaptive Management. IUCN, Montreal, Canada.
1999
June: Devolution, Collective Action, and Forest Management: India and Nepal.
CGIAR, Philippines. (With Elinor Ostrom).
1999
April: State Formation in Community Spaces: The Forest Councils of Kumaon.
Environmental Politics Seminar Series, University of California Berkeley.
1998
October: The Production of Community-in-Conservation: The Forest Councils of
Kumaon. Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, Institute of Development
Studies, Sussex, UK; and ISEC,
Bangalore, India.
1998
June: Science, Indigenous Knowledge, and Power. School of Oriental and African
Studies, London.
1997
April: Community-in-Conservation: Beyond Enchantment and Disenchantment, Second
Board Meeting of the Conservation and Development Forum, Georgia, USA.
1997
February: Forests, Institutions and Resource Use: Elements of a Research
Program, NERIST, Arunachal Pradesh, India.
1996
September: Community: Tracing the Outlines of a Seductive Concept, Colloquium
Series, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University,
Bloomington.
1996
June: Dismantling the Divide between Indigenous and Scientific Knowledge, New
York Botanical Gardens, New York.
1996
April: Papers presented to the Political Economy Group at University of Texas
at Austin on poststructuralism and development, and to the South Asian Studies
Department on subaltern politics around grazing commons.
1996
April: "Not having one's cake nor eating it: Intellectual property and
indigenous knowledge." Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.
1996
March: "Common Property Discourse and Forest Management in the Indian
Himalayas: A Critical Assessment" Conference on "Participation,
People, and Sustainable Development," Rampur, Nepal.
Selected
Paper Presentations
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Environmentality: Technologies of Government and the Making of subjects, McGill
University, Indiana University, and University of Michigan. (January and
February 2003).
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Forests of Statistics: Colonial Environmental Knowledges. APSA, September 2002.
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Decentralization and Participation: The Governance of Common Pool Resources in
Nepal’s Terai. IFRI, Nairobi. June 2002. (With Krishna Gupta).
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The Decentralizing State: Nature and Origins of Changing Environmental Policies
in Africa and Latin America, 1980-2000" APSA September 2001.
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Decentralization, Collective Action, and Resource Management in South Asia.
APSA, September 2000. (With Elinor Ostrom).
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Conservation’s visions: participatory resource management in Nepal’s Terai, and
Sustainability on the commons, IASCP, Bloomington Indiana, May 2000 (in a
double panel I organized, and in a panel organized by the National Academy of
Sciences.
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State Formation in Community Spaces: Forest Management in Kumaon Himalaya,
APSA, September 1998 (in a double panel co-organized with C. Gibson).
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Power, Institutions, and the Everyday: The Forest Councils of Kumaon. IASCP,
June 1998 (In a double panel co-organized with Jesse Ribot).
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There is no Global: NGOs, Development and Democracy in India, South Asian
Studies Meetings, October 16-19, 1997 (in a double panel co-organized with
Sangeeta Luthra)
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Poststructuralist Approaches to Development: Some Critical Reflections, APSA,
September 1996 (in a panel co-organized with C. Boone).
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Subaltern Politics Around the Grazing Commons, Paper presented at the Asian
Studies Meetings, April 11-14, 1996 (in a double panel co-organized with Akhil
Gupta).
Conferences
and Colloquia Series Organized
1997:
Agrarian Environments (with K. Sivaramakrishnan, at Yale University). Papers
presented at the workshop have been published as an edited volume, Agrarian
Environments by Duke University Press.
1998:
Regional Modernities in Stories and Practices of Development. (With K.
Sivaramakrishnan, at Yale University). A selection of the papers presented at
this workshop are being published in a collection of essays, Regional
Modernities. Stanford University Press.
1999-2000:
Decentralization and Development (With Jessica Stites and Maria Murillo at Yale
University). Selected papers presented at the colloquium have been brought
together as an edited volume to be submitted for publication.
1999:
Training program in Forest Management and Institutions, Kathmandu Nepal.
2000:
The Nation-State, Development, and Decentralization (With Gautam Yadama at
Washington University, St. Louis).
2000:
Social Movements and Development (with Rachel Seher at Yale University).
2000:
Environment and Development: Power and Place (With Eric Worby and Rebecca
Hardin at Yale University).
2000:
Agrarian Studies 2000 Conference (With James C. Scott).
2000-2001:
South Asianist Speakers at Yale.
Reports
Prepared
2006. Evaluation report for the Rights and Responsibilties Cooperative Agreement between WRI and USAID; and a paper on "The Future of Natural Resource Governance."
2003:
Wildlife Conservation Society: Assessing the Requirements for Growth in the International
Program. Report Submitted to the Wildlife Conservation Society, New York. (With
Steven Cobb).
1999:
Conservation with Communities: Parks and People Program in Nepal. Report
submitted to the United Nations Development Program, Nepal.
1998:
Decentralization in Comparative Perspective: The Participatory District
Development Program in Nepal. Report submitted to the United National
Development Program, Nepal.
1991:
The Grass is Greener on the Other Side, Report submitted to the International
Institute for Environment and Development, London.
1989:
Voluntary Organizations and Afforestation Programs in India, Report submitted
to the Center for Philanthropy and Voluntarism, Duke University.
1986:
Effectiveness of Voluntary Organizations in India, report submitted to the
Indo-German Social Service Society, India.
Service
-- Coordinator: International Forestry Resources and Institutions Program (2006 onward)
-- Associate Editor: Journal of Asian Studies (2006-08)
-- Member, IDRF selection committee, Social Science Research Souncil (2006-08)
-- Member, Selection panel for fellowships, American Institute of Indian Studies (2005-07)
-- Member, evaluation panel for MacArthur Foundation's Research and Writing grants
(2004).
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Member, Political Science Advisory Panel (2003-05), National Science Foundation.
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Member, Editorial Board, Conservation and
Society, Human Ecology, and Studies
in Comparative International Development.
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Member, South Asia Council Program Committee, Association for Asian Studies
(2002-04).
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Member, LiCEP (Laboratory in Comparative Ethnic Processes) 2002-03
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Member, Holdeen Board of Advisers, UUA (2001-03)
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Member, Franklin L. Burdette Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee to select the best
paper presented at APSA, 2001.
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Member, Executive Council, International Association for the Study of Common
Property, 2000-2003.
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Member of the Scientific Planning Committee of the IDGC project (International
Human Dimensions Program), 1997-98. While I was a member of this committee, the
IDGC project issued two reports on questions of scale and social institutions
in global environmental change.
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Member of the committee to judge Best Article in Comparative Politics for
1996-97 (American Political Science Association).
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Member of the executive committee of the Political Economy Section in 1994-95
(American Political Science Association).
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Member of the committee to judge the "Best Dissertation in Political
Economy, 1994-95 (American Political Science Association).
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Panel organizer at meetings of the American Political Science Association,
International Association for the Study of Common Property, Association for
Asian Studies, and South Asian Studies Association.
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Book Reviewer for Chicago, Columbia, Duke, Princeton, and Yale University
Presses, Plenum Press.
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Article reviewer for Ambio, American Anthropologist, American Journal of
Agricultural Economics, Asian Survey, Bioscience, Capitalism, Nature,
Socialism, Comparative Political Studies, Conservation Biology, Conservation
Ecology, Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, Development and Change,
Economic Geography, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Human Ecology,
Human Organization, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution,
Peace and Change, Society and Natural Resources, Studies in Comparative
International Development, Unasylva, and World Development.
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Grants and proposals reviewer for the Conservation International, MacArthur
Foundation, National Science Foundation, Research Council of Norway, Shastri
Institute, Canada, Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Canada,
Social Science Research Council, and Wildlife Conservation Society.
Teaching
and Courses
Graduate
Social
Theory and the Environment, Politics of Natural Resources; Imperialism,
Conservation and Development; Common Property Resources; Politics of
Development; Politics of Agrarian Societies; Analytic Comparative Politics,
Environment and Development, Qualitative Research Methods, Politics and Change
in South Asia.
Undergraduate
Introduction
to Comparative Politics; Politics of Development and Environment; Modernity and
Ethnicity; Introduction to Asian Politics; Indian Politics, Environment and
Development, Society and Environment, Environmental Research.
Graduate
Supervision
PhD Students
1.
Cassandra Moseley. Department of Political Science, Yale University
(Dissertation title: New Ideas, Old Institutions: Environment, Community, and
State in the Pacific Northwest).
2.
Allen Carlson. Department of Political Science, Yale University (Dissertation
title: Constructing a New Great Wall: Chinese Foreign Policy and the Norm of
State Sovereignty).
3.
Steve Rhee. School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, Yale
University. Currently conducting field research.
4.
Curtis Lambrecht, Department of Political Science, Yale University. Currently
conducting field research.
5.
Christopher Thoms, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of
Michigan (currently writing up dissertation).