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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…

IFD paper in Current Anthropology

Our paper Mobile pastoralists in the Logone Floodplain distribute themselves in an Ideal Free Distribution is out in Current Anthropology. Here is the abstract:

We examined whether mobile…

A visit to Cameroon

A short video about my research on pastoral management of open access can be found at the WOSU website. It also features my former student Kristen Ritchey who studied hired…

MORSL postdoctoral researcher Sarah Laborde

Sarah Laborde has joined the MORSL lab as our new post-doctoral researcher. She is an interdisciplinary scholar with an interest in the complex and dynamic interconnections between people and…