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NSF Innovation in Graduate Education (IGE) grant

An interdisciplinary team of staff and faculty, with Mark Moritz, Nicholas Kawa, Alison Bennett, Rachel Kajfez, Elizabeth Newton, Charlene Brenner, David Sovic, and Yolanda Zepeda has received an…

Of Platforms and Pastoralists

I wrote a review of Profits vs. Preservation: How can shepherds balance the social and ecological costs of livestock grazing on Naxos? for World Development Perspectives.

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Paper in American Scientist

Our piece The World needs Wicked Scientists was published in American Scientist. Here is the abstract: Many problems facing humanity are so daunting they seem impossible to solve. Among these…

Pastoralists seek refuge in Waza Park

We published a short news article for Oryx about how insecurity in the Logone Floodplain in Cameroon has driven thousands of pastoralists to seek refuge in Waza National Park in Cameroon.

Danger of a single story

Our paper The danger of a single story about Fulani pastoralists is out in the journal Pastoralism. Our critical analysis focuses on a factsheet published by the United States Commission on…

Nature Climate Change

New paper in Nature Climate Change on Climate Change Adaptation and Community Autonomy from an interdisciplinary team led by Anne Pisor. Here is short summary of the argument: Communities…

Chelsea Hunter awarded an NSF DDRIG grant

Doctoral candidate Chelsea Hunter has been awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant from the National Science Foundation to support her dissertation research. Chelsea's research…

In Common podcast

I also enjoyed mystery conversation with Michael Cox on the In Common podcast about my work on open property regimes in pastoralist systems and about slow science.

Voices of Excellence podcast

I enjoyed my conversation with David Staley about my research on pastoralists and common-pool resources on the podcast Voices of Excellence, which is available on Soundcloud and iTunes.