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Practicing Anthropology
Our paper One Health Research in Cameroon PDF was published in Practicing Anthropology. In the paper, we argue for anthropology’s involvement in One Health research because it…

Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation
A new edited volume Social Network Analysis of Disaster Response, Recovery, and Adaptation by Eric Jones and A.J. Faas just came out, with my chapter on networks and hazard adaptation…

Paper in International Journal of the Commons
My new paper on Open Property Regimes came out in the International Journal of the Commons. Here is the abstract:
In the literature on the commons, open access is considered the absence of a…

Graduate positions available in study of coupled systems
Two five-year positions supported by the National Science Foundation and The Ohio State University for an interdisciplinary research project that examines the environmental conditions that lead to…
Paper in Global Environmental Change
A new paper from our MORSL lab is out in Global Environmental Change. Sarah Laborde, Alfonso Fernandez, Sui Chian Phang, Ian M. Hamilton, Nathaniel Henry, Hahn Chul Jung, Aboukar Mahamat,…

Project with Nikolaus Schareika
Nikolaus Schareika, Professor at Göttingen University, and I have started a new research project on African pastoral systems. After almost two years of Skype meetings, we were able to work…

New Working Group
Together with colleagues in the department I have started a new working group. We are currently in the process of developing a graduate program in the study of social-ecological systems, which is…
Pastoralists fleeing Boko Haram face new challenges in Cameroon
Mouadjamou Ahmadou and I wrote a short piece for The Conversation about pastoralist refugees in Cameroon. It describes the challenges they face as they are forced to migrate to areas that are…

It's official
Our grant proposal Pastoral Territoriality as a Dynamic Coupled System - Joy McCorriston (PI), Ian Hamilton and Mark Moritz - will be funded by the National Science Foundation’s Dynamics of…