Overview

My objectives are the following: Extension/outreach in AIP: Secure funding for an inter-racial network in NYS committed to better Indian water law, to community-based water management, to water education, and practical environmental justice in Indian and non-Indian communities. Teaching: Maintain reputation of Global Conflict and Terrorism and effect its transition to Development Sociology. Research: Initiate research in the area of war and the environment; complete research on Indian Farmer Discrimination; complete research on In-situ displacement and "Alienage "; plan Special Issue of Cornell University Law Review on American Indian Water Law in the Eastern US.

Research Focus

WIthin the framework of ownership and control (see above), I am devoting myself to research new forms of ownership in society and the conditions that generate or suppress them. I am also currently interested in "win-win" ecology or the ways in which conservation can be effected beyond the borders of protected areas and in the environmental consequences of war and terrorism.

Outreach and Extension Focus

Land and natural resource ownership, access, and tenure; land reform; community-based resource management; environmental justice; social displacement and refugees; indigenous land issues; war, terrorism, and environment

Outreach and Extension Focus

Land and natural resource ownership, access, and tenure; land reform; community-based resource management; environmental justice; social displacement and refugees; indigenous land issues; war, terrorism, and environment

Outreach and Extension Focus

The proposal generated by the above alliance is entitled: "Community-Based Co-Management of New York Water Resources: Forging a Multi-Ethnic, Full Circle Approach." It will combine education, law, and community development to identify water concerns shared by Indian and non-Indian communities and improve inter-ethnic cultural relations through natural resource problem solving. Its side benefit: revitalizing the extension and outreach component of Cornell's American Indian Program. Several NYS Indian leaders of the the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force have degrees from Cornell and helped to forge the "Full Circle" outreach-and-education philosophy of AIP in past years.

Instruction Focus

I am committed to teaching public sociology though courses on environmental sociolgy and on the sociology of violence. Courses Taught: DSOC 3240, Society and the Environment; DSOC 4810, Global Conflict and Terrorism

Additional Links

• Conservation Eviction Informantion
• Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology
• Polson Institute
• Polson Institute for Global Development
• Link to CALS Research portal
• Link to CALS Impact statements

Professional Activities

• "Native Water in the Land Grant Mission, " with Troy Richardson, at Cayuga Nation Council Meeting in Buffalo, Dec. 12, 2006. - 2006
• Presentation ( "Getting Our Feet Wet: Cornell at a Confluence ") with Troy Richardson at the Eleventh Annual USEPA, Region 2 INDIAN NATION LEADERS MEETING, Syracuse, Nov. 15, 2006. - 2006
• "The Future of Community Land Trusts, " December 14, 2004. Panel at Lincoln Institute of Land, Cambridge, MA. - 2004
• "Diversity and Land Tenure: An Overview. " Extension Conference, November, 2004. Syracuse, NY. - 2004

Selected Publications

• "Community-Based Land Reform: Lessons from Scotland, " with J. Bryden (2007) Land Use Policy 24:24-34. 2007
• "Naturalising Transgenics: Official Seeds, Loose Seeds and Risk in the Decision Matrix of Gujarati Cotton Farmers, " with Devparna Roy and Ronald Herring. Journal of Development Studies (2007) 43:158-176. 2007
• "Official Seeds, Loose Seeds, and Risk: Transgenic Cotton in the Decision Matrix of Gujarati Farmers. " with D. Roy and R. Herring. Chapter in R. Herring (ed.), Transgenics and the Poor. London: Routledge (2007). 2007
• "Official Seeds, Loose Seeds, and Risk: Transgenic Cotton in the Decision Matrix of Gujarati Farmers. " Chapter in R. Herring (ed.), India's Biotechnology (Provisional Title). London: Routledge (2006). 2006
• "Homeless in the Heartland: American Dreams and Nightmares in Indian Country, " with Lance George. Chapter in Paul Cloke and Paul Milbourne (eds.), International Perspectives on Rural Homelessness. London: Routledge (2005). 2006
• "Negotiating Locality: Decentralization and Communal Forest Management in the Guatemalan Highlands, " with Hannah Wittmann. Human Organization (2005) 64, V. 1:62-74. 2005
• "A New Kind of Trouble: Evictions in Eden, " International Social Science Journal 175 (March, 2003): 30-42. 2003
• "Moving Targets: Displacement, Impoverishment, and Development, " with Shelley Feldman and Louise Silberling, International Social Science Journal 175 (March, 2003): 7-13. 2003
• "Your Park, My Poverty: Using Impact Assessment to Counter the Displacement Effects of Environmental Greenlining. " Ch. 13 in S. Brechin and P. West (eds.), Protected Natural Areas and the Dispossessed. Albany: SUNY Press (2003). 2003
• "Murphree's Law, " Common Property Resource Digest 60 (March 2002):4-9. 2002
• "Endangered Humans. " Foreign Policy (May/June):80-81 (reprinted in Spanish-Language Edition of FP (Junio 2002:14-15) and Primicia (May 27, 2002:28-29). 2002
• Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management. L. Buck, C. Geisler, J. Schelhas, and E. Wollenberg (eds.) Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 2001
• "Rethinking Land Reform in South Africa: An Alternative Approach to Environmental Justice, " with Essy Letsoalo, Social Research Online (2001): 1, 3. 2001
• "Adapting Land Reform to Protected Area Management in the Dominican Republic, " Ch. 5 in L. Buck, C. Geisler, J. Schelhas, and E. Wallenberg (eds.) Biological Diversity: Balancing Interests through Adaptive Collaborative Management. Boca Raton: CRC Press. 2001
• "Community-Based Natural Resource Management, " (with Norman Uphoff), CIIFAD Annual Report 2000-2001:117-124. 2001
• "From Refuge to Refugee: The African Case. " with Ragendra de Sousa, Journal of Public Adminstration and Development 21: 159-170 (also appeared as Land Tenure Center Working Paper No. 38 (July, 2000): Madison: University of Wisconsin. 2001
• Property and Values. C. Geisler, G. Daneker (eds.) Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 2000
• "Estates of Mind: Culture's Many Paths to Land, " Society and Natural Resources, " 13:51-60. 2000
• "Property Pluralism. " Pp. 65-86 in Property and Values by C. Geisler and D. Daneker (eds.) Washington, D.C.: Island Press. 2000

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