Professor Dianne
Rocheleau received her Ph.D. from the University of
Florida in 1983. She served with the International Council
for Research in Agroforestry and the Ford Foundation
before coming to Clark in 1989. Her interests include
environment and development, political ecology, forestry,
agriculture and landscape change, with an emphasis on
the role of gender, class and "popular" vs.
"formal"
science in resource allocation and land use. Professor
Rocheleau has recently been awarded the Radcliffe Institute
for Advanced Study Fellowship at Harvard University
to work on her book, The Invisible Ecologies of Machakos;
Landscape, Livelihoods, and Life Stories 1890-1990.
This
Sawyer Seminar, funded by the Mellon Foundation, includes a year-long
series of working group meetings
and mini-conferences on the central theme of globalization and
the land. It is hosted by UNC's Center for Global Initiatives.
