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Review: Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future
My review of Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future has been published in Nomadic Peoples. The edited volume Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present, and Future, is an overview of a…
Opening Academic Year at the NIAS
I have started working on my book manuscript Emergent Commons: How Pastoralists avoid a Tragedy of the Commons in West Africa at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Wassenaar,…
Rangeland Ecology and Management
Our paper "Ideal Free Distributions of Mobile Pastoralists within Multiple Seasonal Grazing Areas" is available online on the Rangeland Ecology and Management website. Here is a brief summary of…
Environmental Policy Initiative
Ohio State’s Environmental Policy Initiative (EPI), which is directed by Professor Brent Sohngen, offers a yearly summer research grant for OSU graduate students who are preparing doctoral…
African Deltas Conference
Saidou Kari, one of our main collaborators from Centre d’Appui a la Recherche et au Pastoralisme (CARPA), presented our MORSL project at the International conference on African Deltas in Dar es…
Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
Our paper Serotype Diversity of Foot-and-Mouth-Disease Virus in Livestock Without History of Vaccination in the Far North Region of Cameroon was published in the journal Transboundary and Emerging…
Pallavi Oruganti's research supported by an REU Grant
Pallavi Oruganti, one of the anthropology undergraduates in the DECML lab, is supported by an REU grant. Pallavi is also working with Karla Moreno-Torres, a graduate student, and Rebecca Garabed,…
MORSL postdoctoral researcher Sui Phang
Sui Phang recently joined our MORSL laboratory as a postdoctoral researcher. He will be working with Ian Hamilton on studying and modeling the fish populations in the Logone Floodplain. His…
NIAS Fellowship
I have been awarded a residential fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for the Advanced Studies (NIAS) to work on my book manuscript that is based on my longitudinal study of mobile…