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Wendy Wolford

Vice Provost for International Affairs, Cornell University160 Day Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853

Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global DevelopmentDevelopment Sociology

CALS - Cornell University263 Warren Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853

www43@cornell.edu

Education

2001 Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, Geography 1997 M.S. University of California, Berkeley, Geography1994 B.A. cum laude, McGill University, Economics and International Development

Professional Appointments

2018- Vice Provost for International Affairs, Cornell University2016-17 Fulbright Fellow, Sub Saharan Africa Program, Mozambique2015 Series Co-editor (with Nancy Peluso and Michael Goodman): The Cornell University Press

Series on Land: New Perspectives in Development, Territory and Environment2014 Full Professor, Development Sociology, Cornell University2012-16 Faculty Director of Economic Development Programs, Atkinson Center for a Sustainable

Future, Cornell University2012-16 Co-director, CARE-Cornell Collaboration, Cornell University2012-15 Co-leader, Theme Project on Contested Global Landscapes, Institute for the Social Sciences,

Cornell University2010 Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Development Sociology, Cornell University 2008-09 Director of Graduate Studies, Geography, UNC Chapel Hill2007-08 Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Department of Geography, UNC Chapel Hill 2004-05 Postdoctoral Fellow, Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University2001-07 Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, UNC, Chapel Hill

Grants, Fellowships and Awards

2017 USDA Higher Education Challenge Grant, “Integrated Land Management,” for graduate student training and internships on land management, PI ($130,000).

2016 SSRC-Doctoral Proposal Development Program, the University Initiative2016-17 Fulbright Scholar award for research on “Cultivating Expertise: On Knowledge, Authority

and Legitimacy in Rural Mozambique” with the Rural Observatory of Mozambique. 2015 Einaudi Center at Cornell University, Grant for Internationalizing the Curriculum: A

Mozambique Case Study (with James Lassoie, $25,000)2014 National Science Foundation , Program in STS for “Rediscovering Africa: Brazilian Experts and

Expertise in Mozambique,” PI ($229,000).2013 ACSF/Oxfam Rural Resilience Grant for a project on evaluating rural resilience in communities

around the world ($60,000).2012-15 Proposal for a Theme Project with the Institute for the Social Sciences , Cornell University on

“Contested Global Landscapes” ($300,000).2011 Ford Foundation grant for the Land Deals Politics Initiative (with Saturnino “Jun” Borras, Ruth

Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White) ($120,000).

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2011-13 Academic Venture Fund grant for developing “Sustainable Metrics of Agrarian Development,” Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, PI ($111,527).

2009 Social Science Research Council , Research Director for ‘Critical Agrarian Studies’ (with Marc Edelman) in the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Program.

2008 Fellow, Institute for Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2007-08 Andrew Mellon Foundation, Sawyer Seminar Award for “The Changing Nature(s) of Land:

Property, Peasants, and Production in a Global World,” PI (2007-08, $120,000).2007 UNC Chapel Hill , University Center for International Studies, Faculty Course Development

Award for undergraduate course on “Ethnographies of Globalization” ($3,250).2005 National Science Foundation, Regular Grant for “Grounding the State: An Institutional

Ethnography of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,” PI (2005-08, $140,000).2005 UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University Consortium in Latin American Studies, Funding for a

Working Group, Faculty Co- Chair ($2,500 per year).2004 UNC Chapel Hill, University Research Council Award for “Farming the Frontier: Agriculture,

the Environment and Development in the Brazilian Cerrado,” PI ($4,000).2004 Award for Outstanding Academic Book in Economics by Choice: Reviews for Academic

Libraries, the publication of the American Library Association, for To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil. Oakland, CA: Food First! Publications (co-authored with Angus Wright).

2003 UNC Chapel Hill and Duke University Consortium in Latin American Studies, Funding for a Working Group on “Re-thinking the Political,” Faculty Co-Chair ($3,000 per year).

2002 UNC Chapel Hill, University Grant for Junior Faculty Development, PI ($5,000).2002 J. Warren Nystrom Award for Best Dissertation in Geography - awarded by the American

Association of Geographers. 1998 National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant for “Putting Networks

in their Places: Local Linkages, National Networks and Land Reform in Brazil.”1998-09 Dissertation Fellow, Institute for the Study of World Politics.1998-09 Simpson Fellow, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley.1996-07 International Pre-Dissertation Fellow, Social Science Research Council. 1996 Award for

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley. 1995-00 Chancellor’s Fellow, UC Berkeley.

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Books

2017. Other Geographies: The Influences of Michael Watts, Sharad Chari, Susanne Friedberg, Jesse Ribot, and Vinay Gidwani, co-editors. John Wiley & Sons.

2013. Governing Global Land Deals: The role of the state in the rush for Land (originally published as a special issue in Development and Change, March 2013), Jun Borras, Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White, co-editors. London: Wiley-Blackwell.

2013. The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals (originally published as a special issue in Journal of Peasant Studies, 2012), Ben White, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones, co-editors. New York: Routledge.

2010. This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

[Reprinted chapter in Combatendo a Desigualdade Social: O MST e a reforma agrária no Brasil, 2010, edited by Miguel Carter. São Paulo: Editora Unesp, pp. 373-394. The chapter will also be published in a collection by Duke University Press.]

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2003. To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil. Oakland, CA: Food First! Publications (co-authored with Angus Wright).

Special issues (journals)

2016. Special issue on “The Post-Neoliberal State: Intimate Studies of the Brazilian State,” co-editor and author of the introduction titled “Deconstructing the Post-Neoliberal State: Intimate Perspectives on Contemporary Brazil” pp. 4 – 21, with John French, in Latin America Perspectives 43(2).

2016. Special issue on “The Politics of Land Management,” co-editor and co-author of the introduction with Sara Pritchard and Steven Wolf, in Environment and Planning A 48 (4): 616-625.

2015. Special issue on Rethinking Resilience, co-editor and co-author of the introduction with Marygold Walsh-Dilley, in Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, 3(3).

2015. Special issue on “Elite Motivations in Land Deals,” co-editor and co-author of the introduction with Sara Keene and Marygold Walsh-Dilley, in the Canadian Journal of Development Studies 36(2).

2015. Special issue on “Politics from Below: Grassroots Responses to Land Deals,” co-editor and co- author of the introduction with Jun Borras, Marc Edelman, Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White, in Journal of Peasant Studies.

2014. Special issue on “Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty,” in the Journal of Peasant Studies 41(6), co-editor with Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Deniz Kandiyoti, Eric Holt-Gimenez, and Tony Weis and co-author of introduction with Marc Edelman, Tony Weis, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Eric Holt-Giménez, and Deniz Kandiyoti.

2013. Special issue on “Governing Global Land Deals: The role of the state in the rush for Land,” in Development and Change 44(2), co-editor and co-author of the introduction with Jun Borras, Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White.

2013. Special “Forum on Global Land Grabbing: A discussion of methodologies,” in Journal of Peasant Studies 38(2): 209-298, co-editor and co-author of introduction with Jun Borras, Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White.

2012. Special double issue on “The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals,” inJournal of Peasant Studies 39(3/4), co-editor with Ben White and Ruth Hall.

2009. Guest Editor (and author of introduction) for special issue of Grassroots Voices titled, “Everyday Forms of Political Expression,” in the Journal of Peasant Studies, 36(2): 411-458.

Journal Articles

2018. Scoones, Ian, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford, and Ben White. “Emancipatory rural politics: confronting authoritarian populism,” The Journal of Peasant Studies 45(1): 1-20.

2017. Edelman, M., & Wolford, W. “Introduction: Critical Agrarian Studies in Theory and Practice.” Antipode 49(4): 959-976.

2016. “The Casa and the Causa: Institutional Histories and Cultural Politics in Brazilian Land Reform,” Latin American Research Review 51(4): 24-42.

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2016. “From Mosquitoes to Marx: The Changing Dynamics of State and Social Mobilization for Land in Brazil,” Latin American Research Review.

2016. “State-Society Dynamics in Contemporary Brazilian Land Reform,” for the special issue on “The Post-Neoliberal State: Intimate Studies of the Brazilian State,” Latin America Perspectives 43(2): 77-95.

2016. Walsh-Dilley, M., W. Wolford, and J. McCarthy. “Rights for resilience: food sovereignty, power, and resilience in development practice,” Ecology and Society 21(1): 11.

2015. “Fixing the land: The role of knowledge in building new models for rural development,” Canadian Food Studies/La Revue canadienne des études sur l'alimentation 2(2): 225-232.

2015. Walsh-Dilley, Marygold and Wendy Wolford. “(Un)Defining resilience: subjective understandings of ‘resilience’ from the field,” Resilience 3(3): 173-182.

2015. Pahnke, Anthony, Rebecca Tarlau and Wendy Wolford. “Understanding rural resistance: contemporary mobilization in the Brazilian countryside,” The Journal of Peasant Studies, 42(6): 1069-1085.

2015. Wolford, Wendy and Ryan Nehring. “Constructing Parallels: Brazilian Experts, Expertise and the Commodification of Land, Labor and Capital in Mozambique,” Canadian Journal of Development Studies, as part of the special issue on Elite Motivations in Land Deals 36(2): 208-223.

2015. Keene, Sara, Marygold Walsh-Dilley, Wendy Wolford, and Charles Geisler. “A view from the top: examining elites in large-scale land deals.” Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du développement 36,(2): 131-146.

[Reprinted in Global Latin America, edited by Matthew Gutmann and Jeffrey Lesser. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, forthcoming.]

2015. Wolford, Wendy. “From Pangaea to Partnership: The Many Fields of Rural Development,”Sociology of Development, inaugural double issue 1(2): 210-232.

2014. Valdivia, Gabriela, Flora Lu, and Wendy Wolford. “Border-Crossings: New Geographies of Conservation and Production in the Galapagos Islands,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 104(3): 686-701.

2013. Wolford, Wendy, Jun Borras, Ruth Hall, Ian Scoones and Ben White. “Governing Global Land Deals: The role of the state in the rush for Land,” Introduction to special issue in Development and Change 44(2): 189-210.

2013. Lu, Flora, Gabriela Valdivia and Wendy Wolford. “Local Perceptions of Environmental Crisis in the Galápagos Islands, Ecuador” in Conservation and Society 11(1): 83-95.

2012. White, Ben, Ruth Hall and Wendy Wolford. “The New Enclosures: Introduction to special issue,” in Journal of Peasant Studies 39(3/4): 619-647, co-editor and co-author of introduction with Ben White and Ruth Hall.

2011. “Making a Difference: Sebastião Salgado and the Social Life of Mobilization,” Sociological Forum26(2): 444-450.

2010. “Participatory Democracy by Default: Land Reform, Social Movements and the State in Northeastern Brazil,” Journal of Peasant Studies 37(1): 91-109.

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2008. “Global Shadows,” comments for a symposium on Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order by James Ferguson, in the Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 29(3): 266-269.

2008. “Environmental Justice and the Construction of Scale in Brazilian Agriculture,” Society and Natural Resources 21(7): 641-655.

2008. Baletti, Brenda, Tamara Johnson and Wendy Wolford. “Late Mobilization: Transnational Peasant Networks and Grassroots Organizing in Brazil and South Africa,” in Journal of Agrarian Change (April/June) 8/2-3: 290-314.

[Reprinted in Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization, edited by Jun Borras Jr., Marc Edelman and Cristobál Kay. New York: Wiley Science, 2009.]

2007. “Land Reform in the Time of Neo-Liberalism: A Many Splendored Thing,” Antipode 39(3): 550- 572

[Reprinted in Privatization: Property and the Remaking of Nature-Society Relations, edited by Becky Mansfield. London: Blackwell 2008.]

2006. “The Difference Ethnography Can Make: Understanding Social Mobilization and Development in the Brazilian Northeast,” Qualitative Sociology 29: 335-352.

[Revised and reprinted in New Perspectives in Political Ethnography, edited by Lauren Joseph, Mathew Mahler and Javier Auyero. New York: Springer Press, 2007.]

2005. “Agrarian Moral Economies and Neo-liberalism in Brazil: Competing World-Views and the State in the Struggle for Land” Environment and Planning A, 37: 241-261

[Revised and reprinted in Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and Unnatural Consequences, edited by Nik Heynen, James McCarthy, Scott Prudham, and Paul Robbins. New York: Routledge Press, 2007.]

2004. “This Land is Ours Now: A New Perspective on Social Movement Formation,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 94(2): 409-424.

[Reprinted in Development: Critical Essays in Human Geography, edited by Stuart Corbridge for the Series on Contemporary Foundations of Space and Place. London: Ashgate Publishers, 2008.]

2004. “Of Land and Labor: Agrarian Reform on the Sugarcane Plantations of Northeast Brazil,” Journal of Latin American Perspectives 31(2): 147-170.

2003. “Producing Community: Geographies of Commitment on Land Reform Settlements in Brazil,”Journal of Agrarian Change 3(4): 500-520.

2003. “Families, Fields, and Fighting for Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Contention in Rural Brazil,”Mobilization 8(2): 201-215

[Reprinted in Latin American Social Movements, edited by Hank Johnston, published by Rowman and Littlefield, 2006.]

Book Chapters

2017. Sharad Chari, Susanne Friedberg, Jesse Ribot, Wendy Wolford and Vinay Gidwani. “Introduction: Other Geographies in Michael Watts,” in Other Geographies: The Influences of

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Michael Watts, Sharad Chari, Susanne Friedberg, Jesse Ribot, and Vinay Gidwani, co-editors. John Wiley & Sons, pp. 1-27.

2015. Wendy Wolford and Sara Keene. “Political Ecology and Social Movements,” in the Handbook of Political Ecology, edited by Gavin Bridge, James McCarthy and Thomas Perrault, pp. 573-585.

2015. “Rethinking the Revolution: Latin American Social Movements and the State in the 21st Century,” in Enduring Reforms: Progressive Activism and Visions of Change in Latin America’s Democracies,

edited by Vivienne Bennett and Jeffrey Rubin. College Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

2015. Walsh-Dilley, Marygold and Wendy Wolford. “Social Mobilization and Food Security: The contribution of organized civil society to hunger reduction policies in Latin America,” in The Fight Against Hunger and Malnutrition: The Role of Food, Agriculture and Targeted Policies, edited by David Sahn. Oxford University Press, pp. 347-373.

2013. Wendy Wolford and Ryan Nehring. Moral Economies of Food Security and Protest in Latin America, in Food Security and Social Mobilization, edited by Chris Barrett. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

2012. Wolford, W., F. Lu and G. Valdivia. “Environmental Crisis and the Production of Alternatives: Conservation Practice(s) in the Galapagos Islands” in Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands: Frameworks and Perspectives, edited by Stephen Walsh and Carlos F. Mena. New York: Springer Press.

2011. “Development II,” in the Companion to Human Geography, edited by John Agnew and Jim S. Duncan. Oxford: Blackwell Press, pp. 575-588.

2011. Wolford, W. and T. Gorman. “Land Reform and Landless Movements,” for the International Studies Association Compendium Project, edited by Robert A. Denemark.

2008. “Environmental Justice and Agricultural Development in the Brazilian Cerrado,” in Environmental Justice in Latin America, edited by David Carruthers. Cambridge: MIT Press, pp. 213-239.

2006. “Sem Reforma Agrária, Não Há Democracia”: The Struggle Over Access to Land and Deepening Democracy in Brazil,” in Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America, edited by Richard Feinberg, Carlos Waisman, and Leon Zamosc. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

2001. “From State-Led to Grassroots-Led Land Reform in Latin America,” in Access to Land, Rural Poverty and Public Action, pp. 279-303, edited by Alain De Janvry, Gustavo Gordillo, Jean-Philippe Platteau, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet).

2001. “Case Study: Grassroots-Initiated Land Reform in Brazil: The Rural Landless Workers’ Movement,” in Access to Land, Rural Poverty and Public Action, pp. 304-315, edited by Alain De Janvry, Gustavo Gordillo, Jean-Philippe Platteau, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Non-refereed Publications

2018. “Authoritarian Elitism and Popular Protest in Brazil,” with Sérgio Sauer, for Open Democracy, an online blog (published March 5, 2018).

2016. Stronzake, Judite, and Wendy Wolford. “Brazil's Landless Workers Rise Up,” Dissent 63(2): 48-55.

2016. Book Review, Land’s End: Capitalist relations on an indigenous frontier, by Tania Murray Li

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(Duke University Press 2014), The Journal of Peasant Studies 43(4): 950-954.

2015. “Global Land Deals,” for the Institute for Science and Global Policy, Proceedings from the workshop on Food and the Environment, held at Cornell University, October 2014.

2014. Hickey, Amanda, Katherine Young and Wendy Wolford. Farmer Field Schools and Participation in Northern Mozambique; draft report prepared for CARE Mozambique.

2013. Valdivia, Gabriela and Wendy Wolford, Apoyo a los sistemas alimentarios locales: Nuevas Geografías de Conservación y Producción en Santa Cruz, Galápagos (Analysis of Local Food Systems Santa Cruz, Galápagos) with research conducted by a Cornell SMART team in 2012.

2013. Walsh-Dilley, Marygold, Wendy Wolford and James McCarthy. Rights for Resilience: A New Framework for Understanding and Evaluating Rural Resilience. Report prepared for Oxfam America, submitted March 8, 2013 and finalized in June 2013.

2012. James McCarthy and Wendy Wolford. From Scarcity to Security: Land, Water and Energy. Report prepared for Oxfam America, submitted August 2011 and revised February 2012.

2011. Wendy Wolford, James McCarthy, Charles Geisler, Ronald Herring, Richard Stedman, Philip McMichael, David Kay, Gregory Alexander and Elisa Da Via. “Re-Imagining Rural Development: The Agrarian Diversity Index.” Invited for presentation at the symposium on “Representing Vulnerability: Maps, Narratives and Political Processes,” at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; September 23-24, 2011. This is the working paper that guides the new collaboration with RRA.

2009. Book Review, Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization: Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries, by Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Cristobal Kay (Routledge 2007), Journal of Agrarian Change 9(2): 291-294.

2009. Multiple Book Review. Land, Poverty and Livelihoods in an Era of Globalization: Perspectives from Developing and Transition Countries, Akram-Lodhi, A. Haroon, Saturnino M. Borras Jr. and Cristobal Kay (Routledge 2007); Promised Land: Competing Visions of Agrarian Reform, Rosset, Peter, Raj Patel, and Michael Courville (eds) (Food First Books, 2006); Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America, Moyo, Sam and Paris Yeros (eds) (Zed Books, 2005). Development and Change 39(4) (July): 701-704.

2007. Entries for “peasants” and “Jared Diamond” for the Encyclopedia of Environment and Society, edited by Paul Robbins, published by Sage Publication (3 pages).

2006. “The MST in summary and in Debate,” prepared for the Núcleo de Estudos Agrários e Desenvolvimento Rural (NEAD, a research agency affiliated with the Ministry for Agrarian Development) for presentation on the website (10 pages each – version in Portuguese and in English)

2005. Book review: Political Ecology, by Paul Robbins for the Annals of the American Association of American Geographers 95(3): 717-719.

2005. Book review: Agrarian Studies: Essays of Agrarian Relations in Less-Developed Countries, edited volume, for the Journal of Asian Economics 15(6): 1229-1231.

2004. Peasant Associations in Theory and Practice, with Nora McKeon and Michael Watts. Civil Society and Social Movements Programme Paper Number 8, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (60 pages)

2002. Book review: After the Revolution: Gender and Democracy in El Salvador, Nicaragua, and

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Guatemala, by Ilja Luciak for Social Forces 81(2): 680-681.

2001. “Research as a Process” written for the Berkeley-Rockefeller African Development Dissertation Workshop Program, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (10 pages).

1996. “Edible Ideology: Survival Strategies in Brazilian Land Reform Settlements” Geographical Review 86(3): 457-461.

Teaching and Advising

Postdoctoral scholars advised

Marygold Walsh-Dilley (2012-14)Joseph Bryan (2007-08)

Graduate students advised, committee chair

Delilah Griswold (PhD, DSOC, current)Ewan Robinson (PhD, DSOC, current) Hilary Faxon (PhD, DSOC, current) Karla Pena (PhD, DSOC current)Fernando Galeana Rodriguez (PhD, DSOC, current) Ryan Nehring (PhD, DSOC, current)Youjin Chung (PhD, DSOC, current) Kasia Paprocki (MS/PhD, DSOC, 2017)Timothy Gorman (Cornell, DSOC, current)Alice Beban (Cornell, DSOC, 2017) Andrew Curley (Cornell, DSOC, 2016)Elizabeth Hennessy (PhD, Geography, 2014)On the Backs of Turtles: The Politics of Nature in the Galápagos Islands Sara

Safransky (PhD, Geography, 2014)Nurturing Geographies: Food Sovereignty in the “Soy Republic” Brenda

Balletti (PhD, Geography, 2012)Paving Paradise? Property Rights and Social Mobilization along an Amazonian Highway Holly

Worthen (PhD, Geography, 2012)Mexico’s “New” Rural Women: Gendered Labor and Formulations of Rural Citizenship Angela

Cacciaru (PhD, Geography, 2010)The role of land property rights in rural development: the case of Sardinia, Italy Stephanie Nelson

(MA, Geography, 2007)Small-scale aid’s contribution to long-term tsunami recovery Adrian Wilson

(MA, Geography, 2007)Decentering Anarchism: Governmentality and Anti-Authoritarian Social Movements in

Twentieth-Century Spain

Graduate students advised, committee member

UNC Chapel Hill: Ana Araujo (PhD, Anthropology, 2008); Dilys Bowman (PhD, Geography, 2008); Ashley Carse (PhD, Anthropology); Sebastian Cobbarubias (PhD, Geography, 2009); Juanita Darling (PhD, Journalism and Mass Comm, 2004); Brian Doyle (MA, Geography, 2004); Annelies Goger (PhD, Geography, current); Noelle Bouchuy (PhD, Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, 2012); Clark Gray (PhD, Geography, 2008); Jonathon Lepofsky (PhD, Geography, 2007); Matthew Reilly (PhD, Geography, 2009); Greg Taff (PhD, Geography, 2006)

Cornell University: Max Ajl (PhD, DSOC, current); Ian Bailey (PhD, DSOC, current); Ryan Edwards (PhD, History, Cornell 2016); Carrie Freshour (MS/PhD, DSOC, current); Sara Keene (PhD, DSOC, current);

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Kathy Sexsmith (PhD, DSOC, current); Divya Sharma (MS/PhD, DSOC, current); Greg Thaler (PhD, Government, current); Marygold Walsh-Dilley (PhD, DSOC, 2012)

External: Alejandro Camargo (PhD, Geography, Syracuse University, 2016); Tiago Cubas (MA, Geografia, FCT-Unesp, Pres. Prudente); Melinda Gurr (PhD, Anthropology, Syracuse University); Maya Mamzani (PhD, Geography, Clark University, 2013); David Meek (PhD, Anthropology, University of Georgia, 2015); Zoe Meletis (PhD, Nicholas School of Environment, Duke University, 2007); Thomas Rogers (PhD, History at Duke University, 2005);

Undergraduate Honors’ Theses (chair and committee member) Sam Ritholtz (IARD, 2014)Elizabeth Carlson (International Studies, 2008) Shepard Daniels (International Studies, 2008 chair) Melissa Henderson (Geography 2009, chair) Timothy Hester (Spanish and Portuguese, 2002) Jane Hudson (Latin American Studies, 2007) James Martin (Geography, 2005)Claire McGarry (International Studies, 2008, chair) Stuart Pratt (Latin American Studies, 2004)Jessica Rutter (African American Studies, Duke University, 2004) Katherine Shields (Public Policy, 2006, co-chair)

Presentations

Invited Academic Presentations, including focused conferences

2017, October 24, Lecturer and panel participant with three speakers from the University of Copenhagen on The Everyday Politics of Dispossession: Land, Resources and Rights Cases from Indonesia, Bolivia, Peru and Mozambique, at Cornell’s A.D. White House

2017, May 5, Seminar on “The Causa and the Casa: Agrarian Reform and State Politics,” at the Lisbon School of Economics & Management, University of Lisbon

2016, April 14, Invited speaker for the SAGA seminar at the University of Arizona 2016, February 28, Seminar at the Institute for Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.

2016, January 29, Seminar in the Department of Geography, UNC Chapel Hill2016, January 28, panel with Tania Li on Land Management, Duke University.2015, November 10, seminar at SESYNC, University of Maryland2015, October 9, Keynote presentation for the Conference on South-South Development, hosted by the

Institute for Labor Relations at Cornell University2015, May 01, Keynote talk for the MaGrann Conference on Land Fictions at Rutgers University2015, April 20, Seminar in the Science and Technology Studies Department, Cornell University 2015, April 9, capstone talk for the ISS theme project Affiliates’ Conference and Capstone Lecture2015, March 14, panel presentation on the future of development at the Sociology of Development

Section Conference at Brown University, Providence, RI2014, December, presentation on land reform and the state at Rutgers University, Latin American Studies,

Geography and Sociology.2014, December, presentation on rural development in Mozambique, Brown University, Watson Institute.2014, October, presentation on science and global land deals, University of Waterloo, Conference on the

State of the Global Food System.2014, September, presentation on parallels in rural development between Brazil and Mozambique, Clark

University, Geography Department.2014, April, presentation on parallels in rural development between Brazil and Mozambique University of

Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geography.2014, March, presentation on parallels in rural development between Brazil and Mozambique University

of Minnesota, MIRC: Political Science, Sociology, History and Geography Departments.

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2014, March, two talks at UC Berkeley: one at the Berkeley Food Institute and one at the Department of Geography seminar series.

2014, The Hague, Forum on Food Sovereignty and Critical Agrarian Studies (moderated a panel and participated in a workshop)

2013, October 26, Keynote presentation for the symposium “On Protest,” organized at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

2013, June 14, “Supporting Local Food Systems: New Geographies of Conservation and Agriculture on Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos,” invited presentation at the Galapagos Science Center, San Cristobal, Galapagos, Ecuador.

2013, May 26, “Landless Movements, State and Society in Brazil,” invited session on The New Social Contract at the Latin American Studies Association Congress in Washington DC.

2013, April, two invited talks at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one with the Land Tenure Center and Latin American Studies Department, and one for the Annual Heller Lecture in Brazilian Studies, Sociology Department.

2013, March 7, Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University. 2012, September, University of Copenhagen, invited by Property/Citizenship (ProCit) group led by Christian Lund for one day workshop and seminar presentation.

2012, June, Cornell University, workshop on Food Security and Social Mobilization, organized by Chris Barrett.

2012, June, Institute for Social Studies, the Hague, seminar on Critical Agrarian Studies.2012, March 8, 2011, “From Marx to Mosquitoes: The Changing Dynamics of Agrarian Reform in

Brazil,” invited presentation in the Geography Department at Syracuse University.2011, October, taught a one-week class on Latin American Social Movement to Masters students from

Via Campesina, in the Geography Department of UNESP, Presidente Prudente.May 30 – June 3, teaching at the Antipode Institute for Radical Geographies, hosted at the University of

Georgia at Athens.2011, April 26, “From Marx to Mosquitoes: The Changing Dynamics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,”

invited presentation at the Fernand Braudel Center at SUNY Binghamton.2011, April 22, “From Marx to Mosquitoes: The Changing Dynamics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,”

invited presentation for Coffee Hour at the Department of Geography at Penn State.2011, April 12, two paper sessions at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, in

Seattle, WA.2011, April 6, “Contemporary Land Deals and Resistance in Latin America,” paper presented at the Land

Deals Politics Initiative Conference at the University of Sussex.2011, January 31, invited seminar with the Latin American Studies Program, Cornell University.2011, January 22, “From Marx to Mosquitoes: The Changing Dynamics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,”

invited presentation at the Institute for Critical Agrarian Studies, ISS the Hague.2010, November 17, hosted a topical lunch of land tenure at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

2010, November 11, Invited presentation of the Young Social Scientists, organized on the Cornell campus by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and the Institute for Social Studies.

2010, November 6, “From Marx to Mosquitoes: The Changing Dynamics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,” invited presentation at the Monk Centre for Development Studies at the University of Toronto.

2010, October, Annual Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, paper presentation.2010, August, American Sociological Association meetings, invited talk on the relevance of Sebastião

Salgado for public sociology.2010, June 7, “From Marx to Mosquitoes: The Changing Dynamics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,”

prepared for the Luce Conference on Green Governance held at UC Berkeley and organized by Michael Watts and Nancy Peluso.

2010, April, Federal University of Campina Grande, Paraiba.2009, May 7, “Social Mobilization, Political Economy and Land in Brazil,” Department of Development

Sociology, Cornell University.2009, February 5, “The Ecology of Crisis: Governance and Environmental Change in the Galápagos

Islands,” Ecology Seminar, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.2008, November 8, “Social Movements and Global Agribusiness” Keynote Address for the Annual

Institute held by the National Association of Students of Cooperatives (NASCO), held at the

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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.2008, November 10, “Grounding the State: An Institutional Ethnography of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,”

Graduate Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Newark.2008, November 23-25, invited ‘expert’ discussant for workshop on ‘Enduring Reform: Case Studies

from Across Latin America” in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, organized by Jeffrey Rubin.2008, September 19, “Grounding the State: An Institutional Ethnography of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,”

Department of International Development Studies, St. Mary’s University, Halifax, NS, Canada.2008, August 25-27, “Social Movements and the State: An Analysis of Land Reform in Brazil” paper

presented at the Summer Institute on ‘Social Movements and the State in a Transnational Context,’ Watson Institute, Brown University.

2008, May 27-8, “Analyzing Lula’s Record: Agrarian Reform in Brazil,” paper presented at the Conference on ‘Nurturing Hope, Deepening Democracy and Combating Inequalities: An Assessment of Lula’s Presidency,” Duke University.

2008, May 7-9, Conference on Agrarian Studies and the Journal of Agrarian Change, SOAS, University of London, England, hosted by Terence Byres and Henry Bernstein.

2007, September, Department of Sociology, Cornell University, Conference on Social Movement Studies, organized by Phillip McMichael.

2007, March, Department of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook. 2006, October, Department of Geography, UT Austin.

2006, January 27, “21st Century Peasants: The Cultural Politics of Agrarian Populism in Brazil,” Department of Geography, Dartmouth College.

2005, September 5, “Every Monkey has its Own Head: Rural Sugarcane Workers and the Politics of Becoming a Peasant in Northeastern Brazil,” Department of Geography, UNC Chapel Hill.

2005, April 30, “Human Rights and the Struggle for Land in Brazil,” Conference on Brazil: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, Cornell University.

2005, April 29, “Every Monkey has its Own Head: Rural Sugarcane Workers and the Politics of the Peasantry in Brazil,” Department of Development Sociology,” Cornell University.

2005, April 13, “The Politics of Becoming a Peasant: Cultural Politics and Agrarian Populism in Brazil,” Geography and Latin American Studies, Vassar University.

2005, March 25, “The New Politics of the Peasantry: Rural Sugarcane Workers and the Landless Movement in Brazil,” Department of Geography, Clark University.

2005, February 23, “The Politics of Becoming a Peasant: Cultural Politics and Agrarian Populism in Brazil,” Latin American Studies Program and Department of History, Central Connecticut State University.

2005, January 21, “Every Monkey has its Own Head: Rural Sugarcane Workers and the Politics of Becoming a Peasant in Northeastern Brazil,” paper presented for discussion at the Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University.

2005, January 15, “The Politics of Becoming a Peasant: Rural Sugarcane Workers and the Landless Movement in Northeastern Brazil,” Latin American Studies Center, Columbia University.

2004, December 1, “The Politics of Becoming a Peasant: Rural Sugarcane Workers and the Landless Movement in Northeastern Brazil,” Bildner Center, City University of New York.

2004, October 7, “Agrarian Populism and the Politics of Scale in Brazil,” presented at the Conference on Environmental Justice Abroad, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ.

2004, June 4 – 6, “Agrarian Populism and the Cultural Politics of Scale in Brazil,” presented at the conference on Re-envisioning Society: The State of the Nation and the Social Imagination in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.

2004, April 22, “Unequal Spaces: Spatial Imaginaries and Contention,” Latin American Studies Program, Syracuse University.

2004, January 30, “Fighting for Land, Some of the Time: The Formation of Resistance in Northeastern Brazil,” Department of Geography, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

2003, October 17, “O MST em Pernambuco: Assentamentos, Identidade e Política de Resistência,” presented at the Conference on O Movimento Dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra (MST) e a Reforma Agrária No Brasil, Centre for Brazilian Studies, Oxford University.

2003, March 24, “Sem Reforma Agrária, Não Ha Democracia”: The Struggle Over Access to Land and Deepening Democracy in Brazil,” presented at the conference on Structural Change, Political

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Institutions, and Civil Society in Latin America, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA.

2003, February 28, “Spaces of Resistance: The Politics of Land, National Identity and Development in Brazil,” Department of Geography, University of Georgia at Athens.

Conference Sessions, with organizational role

2018. Co-organized the conference on Emancipatory Rural Politics in the Hague, 300 people.2017. October 6-8, organized the 5th Annual Conference of the American Sociological Association Section

on the Sociology of Development: “Development in Question” at Cornell University. Also chaired a panel on the Class Dynamics of Development.

2017. Co-organized Latin American conference in Bogota for 200-300 people.2015, March, Conference on Sociology of Development at Brown University, chaired panel and presented

comments on the future of the field.2015, March 9 and 10: Workshop on Land Grabbing in Latin America; co-organized as part of the Land

Deals Politics Initiative-LA, Sao Paulo Brazil.2014, October: co-organized a one-day workshop on resilience, 8 student presentations, one faculty panel;

Karl Zimmerer keynote, Oxfam USA key participant.2014, Fall, organized a regional conference on Land Deals in Latin America.2014, May, co-organized a student workshop with papers from ISS Graduate Seminar.2014, May, co-organized a Summer Institute for 10 students from the US and UK to spend one week in

Cornell workshopping papers, invited 3 keynote speakers.2013, August, invited to organize session of the ASA on Land Grabbing.

2012, October 15 – 17, co-organized the Second International Conference on Global Land Grabbing held at Cornell University (200 people, with LDPI and Cornell DSOC).

2012, April 24 – 26, co-organized a two-day workshop on “Intimate Ethnographies of the Brazilian State” at Cornell University (15 people, with John French, Duke University).

2011, November, Conference on Rethinking Development at Cornell University.2011, April 12, two paper sessions organized and chaired at the Annual Meeting of the American

Association of Geographers, in Seattle, WA.2011, April 6, co-organized the International Conference on Global Land Grabbing at the University of

Sussex (140 people, with LDPI).2011, January 19-20, organized a two-day workshop on Comparative Institutional Ethnographies of Land

Governance, held at the ISS in The Hague.2009, June, co-organized two sessions on “Sugarcane: The New Rural World” for the Latin American

Studies Association Congress held in Rio de Janeiro (with Marilda Menezes).2006, March 8, co-organized panel session on “Labors of Love II: Theoretical Positions on Gender and

the Academy” with Brenda Parker for the Annual Meeting of the AAGs, Chicago, IL (estimated attendance: 75).

2006, March 19, presented paper on “Land Reform as Industrial Modernization in the Sugarcane Industry of Northeastern Brazil” and co-organized four sessions on: 1. “Poverty and Anti-Poverty Programs;” 2. “The Many Faces of Agrarian Reform;” 3. “Social Mobilization;” 4. “Agriculture and the Environment” with Steven Helfand for the 28th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Puerto Rico (estimated average attendance: 50).

2005, March, organized panel session on “Labors of Love: Parenting in Academia and Beyond,” for the Annual Meeting of the AAGs, Denver, CO (estimated attendance: 60).

2005, March, organized panel session on “Capitalist “Accumulation by Dispossession” and the Rise of Resource Populisms,” for the Annual Meeting of the AAGs, Denver, CO, (estimated attendance: 40).

2004, October, presented paper on “Every Monkey has its Own Head: Rural Sugarcane Workers and the Politics of Becoming a Peasant in Northeastern Brazil,” and co-organized two paper sessions on: “The Brazilian Countryside I and II,” with Steven Helfand, Angus Wright, and Miguel Carter, for the 27th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Las Vegas, NV, (estimated average attendance: 60).

2003, April 27, presented a paper and organized a one-day mini-conference on “Globalization and the

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Changing Countryside: Organizing for Land, Labor and the “Right to have Rights’ in Brazil and North Carolina,” (estimated attendance: 35).

2002, March 20, co-organized and introduced a paper session on “Agrarian Politics and Regional Hegemonies,” with Sharad Chari for the Annual Meeting of the AAGs, Los Angeles, CA (estimated attendance 35).

2001, September 8, 25th Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, Washington DC, presented a paper and co-organized a session on “The MST and Agrarian Reform in Brazil” with Gabriel Ondetti (estimated attendance: 40).

External Conference Presentations, no organizational role

2017, November 16, ASA, presented on “Agriculture in the Age of Discovery: Scientific Research and Rural Development from Portuguese East Africa to Mozambique,” Chicago.

2017, September 19, IESE, presented on “Discovering Mozambique: Agriculture, Investment and science in East Africa” in Maputo, Mozambique.

2016, March, AAGs, paper presentation, discussant and panelist.2015, April, AAGs, discussant on three panels, panelist and paper presentation.2013, August, two special session of the Latin American Studies Association Congress on Social

Movements and Land Reform.2012, May, presented paper and served as an invited discussant for two panels at the Latin American

Studies Association Congress.2010, October, “From Mosquitoes to Marx: The Changing Dynamics of Agrarian Reform in Brazil,” for

the 29th International Congress of the LASA, Toronto, Canada.2007, March, “Comments: Global Shadows, by James Ferguson” presented at the Annual Meeting of

the AAGs, San Francisco, CA.2007, March, “Institutional Ethnographies: Method and Theory,” Panel presentation at the Annual

Meeting of the AAGs, San Francisco, CA.2006, March 9, “Land Reform in the Time of Neoliberalism,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of

the AAGs, Chicago, IL.2006, March 10, “The Moral Economy of Agrarian Livelihoods,” panel presentation for “Geography of

Livelihoods: Theory and Practice,” organized by Jeff Bury and Brian King for the Annual Meeting of the AAGs, Chicago, IL.

2006, March 8, discussant for a paper session on “Property Regimes and Development,” organized by Angela Cacciaru for the Annual Meeting of the AAGs, Chicago, IL.

2005, October 15, “A Econômia Moral: Dois Estudos de Caso na Zona da Mata Nordestina,” written and presented with Marilda Menezes at the Associação Nacional de Pesquisa nas Ciencias Sociais (ANPOCS), Caxambú, MG, Brazil.

2005, May 5, Latin American Labor History Conference at Duke University, discussant.2003, March 5, ““Negotiating Nature: Nation-Building and the Struggle for Land in Brazil,” presented

in a special session on Of/For Nature?, Meeting of the AAGs in New Orleans, LA.2003, September 26, Latin American Labor History Conference at Duke University, discussant.

2002, April 6, “Making Memories: Ethnography the Morning After,” presented at the XXI Annual

Meeting of the Brazilian Studies Association.2001, November 18, “When Memories Meet Their Makers (or, When the “Other” Can Read): Reflections

on Returning Ethnography to the Field” presented at the SEDAAG Annual Conference, Lexington, KY.2001, February, “This Land is Ours Now: Agrarian Reform and the Making of the Brazilian Landless

Class,” paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the AAGs, New York, NY.

Invited Non-Academic Presentations2014, November, presentation to the Cornell Club in Worcester, NY2014, September, Cornell’s 150th celebration at the Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City.

2013, May 14, “Land Tenure and Sustainability: The relationship,” invited presentation at TheSustainability Consortium annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.

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2013, April 29, panel discussion on GMO technology, with Mark Lynas, co-sponsored by the ACSF and IP CALS at Cornell University.

2013, February 6, CIIFAD presentation, Viva Food Security.2010, October 12- 14, presentation on trends in land grabbing for a special session of the FAO World

Food Meeting, Rome, Italy.2008, November 7-9, Keynote speaker for the annual conference of the North American Student

Cooperatives Organization.2006, March 1, “Brazil: Past and Present,” Great Decisions, Woman’s Club of Raleigh.2006, April, “Agriculture and Social Movements in the Political Economy of Brazil,” Great Decisions,

UNC Greensboro Business School, MBA program.

Outreach

2016-17, Designed and directed an online multimedia Conservation Bridge case study profiling the CARE-WWF Alliance for Sustainable and Just Food Systems including an 18-minute video and accompanying written case study, now freely available online for educators worldwide: http://www.conservationbridge.org/casestudy/integrating-food-security-and-resource-conservation-in-rural-mozambique/. Returned to Mozambique in 2016 to screen and discuss the case study video with the community members featured.

SMART project of Local Food Systems in the Galapagos, May-June 2012. Presented a report on Local Food Systems in the Galapagos Islands on two islands in the archipelago – Santa Cruz and San Cristobal. Met with several officials to discuss report.

Co-designed and co-taught a two week curriculum to 100 Sixth grade students on the topic of “Social Movements, Citizenship and Inequality: Brazil and Beyond,” in Phillips Middle School, Chapel Hill, NC. Now available on the web at:

http://author.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/research/research-projects/sixth-grade-main-page.cfm

Invited Radio Shows

May 20, 2011, “Speaking in Tongues,” KDVS 90.3 FM, Davis, CA. August 16, 2003, “This is Hell,” WNUR 89.3 FM, Chicago, IL. August 19, 2003, “Hemispheres,” KGNU 88.5 FM, Boulder, CO.August 20, 2003, “The Journey Home,” KSFR 90.7 FM, Santa Fe, NM.November 14, 2003, (with Angus Wright), “The Living Room,” KPFA, 94.1 FM, Berkeley, CA.

Professional Service

Co-lead for the SSRC-DPD University Initiative, with Hiro MiyazakiCouncil member, section on Development Sociology, American Sociological Association (2014 - 2016)

Chair, Book Award, section on Development Sociology, American Sociological Association (2014) Editorial Collective, member, Journal of Peasant Studies

Editorial Board, Annals of the Association of American Geographers; also regular journal reviewer (2013- 2016)Selection committee, fellows, Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal Development

Fellowship Program (2013 – 2016)Selection committee, Faculty Fields, Social Science Research Council Dissertation Proposal

Development Fellowship Program (2012 - 2014)Track chair for Latin American Studies Association Congress (2013)Cornell steering committee member for Latin American Studies Program and Farmworkers’ Program

(2013 - 2016)Editorial Board, member, Antipode (2010 - 2014)Editorial Board, member, Focus Magazine of Geography (2005 - 2012)Article reviewer for: Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Professional Geographer,

Antipode, Geoforum, Human Organization, Environment and Planning A and D, Journal of Politics and Society in Latin America, and Latin American Perspectives.

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Funding proposal reviewer for: the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, National Geographic, and the Social Science Research Council.

Senior Panel Advisor, NSF (2011 – 2013)Selection Committee member for the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship, SSRCInvited regular reviewer for: The National Science Foundation (the Graduate Research Fellowship); the

Social Science Research Council (IDRF and DPDF), and the ACLS dissertation competition.Track chair, Latin American Studies Association Congress 2013 (with Leonilde Medeiros, Professor of

Rural Sociology at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, selected papers for the annual meeting and ranked applicants for travel grants)

Research Affiliations

Founding member of the Land Deals Politics InitiativeMember, American Association of Geographers, Latin American Studies Association, African Studies

Association, American Sociological Association