Gender and Sustainability: Lessons from Asia and Latin America

List of Contributors

245 About the Contributors Stephanie Buechler obtained a PhD in sociology from Binghamton University. Dr. Buechler is a research associate and lecturer with the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona. Prior to working at the university, she was a researcher with the International Water Management Institute in Hyderabad, India, and Irapuato, Mexico. Her research has focused on gender, migration, agriculture, water, climate change, and, most recently, cities and innovative strategies to address the urban heat island effect. María L. Cruz-Torres is an associate professor in the School of Transborder Studies at Arizona State University. She holds a PhD in anthropology from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Her research interests include political ecology; the impact of globalization upon local communities and households; gender and globalization; gender, sustainability , and the environment; and the environmental and social aspects of natural resource management. Linda D’Amico earned a PhD in anthropology from Indiana University, Bloomington. She lived and worked in Latin America for almost twenty years. Currently, she is a professor at Winona State University in Minnesota , where she teaches in the Global Studies and Women’s and Gender Studies Departments. She is also affiliated with Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Ecuador. Her current research interests include gendered environmentalism, integrated natural resource management, and community media. Georgina Drew is a PhD candidate in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She has graduate degrees in anthropology and international relations and documentary arts training from Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies. Her research 246฀ •฀ Contributors interests include human-nature relations, sustainability, gendered dynamics of natural resource management, and organizational development. Before beginning doctoral studies, she worked with NGOs in the United States and abroad. James Eder received a PhD in anthropology from the University of California , Santa Barbara, and is currently a professor of anthropology in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University . His research interests concern the indigenous and migrant inhabitants of Palawan Island in the Philippines and include the subsistence economy of indigenous forest dwellers; economic change and social differentiation in frontier farming communities; and livelihood, resource management, and global change in the coastal zone. Lisa L. Gezon has a PhD in anthropology from the University of Michigan and is currently a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of West Georgia. Her primary research area has been Madagascar on many facets of humans and their relationship to the material environment . Her most recent book (2012) analyzes the locally produced drug, khat, from environmental, political, economic, and health perspectives. Pamela McElwee is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Ecology at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She obtained her PhD in anthropology and forestry and environmental studies at Yale University. Her research focuses on global environmental problems, broadly defined, with specific expertise in biodiversity conservation and climate change. She has conducted research on these issues in Vietnam since 1996, with a focus on ethnographic and household-level analysis of environmental decision-making and resource use combined with an examination of global institutional practices and norms that influence environmental policy. Neera Singh is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Forestry at the University of Toronto. She has an interdisciplinary PhD in resource development from Michigan State University. Her research focuses on community forestry, democratization of forest governance, and commodification of nature. Prior to her academic career, she worked for a decade in India on environmental conservation and community rights. She is the founder of Vasundhara, a leading NGO in Orissa that works on environmental conservation and sustainable livelihoods. Contributors฀ •฀ 247 Hong Anh Vu received her PhD in 2011 from the Department of Anthropology at Syracuse University. Her dissertation research in a coastal province of Vietnam’s Mekong Delta focused on the impact of globalization and neoliberal policies on rural livelihoods, particularly as a result of intensified shrimp farming, and her future projects will be exploring the impact of changing land rights and water availability on women in the delta. Amber Wutich received her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of Florida. She is currently on the faculty of Arizona State University ’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change. Her research explores the limits of human adaptability using theories of culture, ecology , and economy. She has examined how resource insecurity affects human well-being, vulnerability, and...