Ellie Andrews
Expected Graduation - Summer '19
Research Interests:
Political Ecology, Political Economy, Anthropocene, novel ecologies, First World Political Ecology
Teaching Interests:
Environmental sociology, environment and development, political economy, research design, writing, feminist composition
Dissertation Topic:
Honey bee health and beekeeping practices in the Anthropocene
Dissertation Committee:
Phil McMichael (Development Sociology), Steven Wolf (Natural Resources) Sara Pritchard (Science and Technology Studies)
Recent Publications:
- Andrews, E. & McCarthy, J. (2017). "Micropolitics in the Marcellus Shale". In L. Horowitz & M. Watts (Eds.), Grassroots Environmental Governance: Community engagements with industry (pp. 188-208). New York: Routledge.
- Andrews, E., & McCarthy, J. (2014). "Scale, shale, and the state: Political ecologies and legal geographies of shale gas development in Pennsylvania". Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, 4(1), 7-16.
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Max Ajl
Expected Graduation - May '19
Research Interests:
Agrarian political economy, rural sociology, geographies of development, world food systems, Middle East – North Africa history and society, southern theory
Teaching Interests:
Theories of Development, Human Geography, Sociological Theory, Sociology of the Middle East and North Africa
Dissertation Topic:
Farmers, Fellaga, and Frenchmen: National Liberation and Post-Colonial Development in Tunisia
Dissertation Committee:
Phil McMichael (Development Sociology), Wendy Wolford (Development Sociology), & Fouad Makki (Development Sociology)
Recent Publications:
- Ajl, Max. (2018). “Auto-centered development and indigenous technics: Slaheddine el-Amami and Tunisian delinking". Journal of Peasant Studies.
- Ajl, Max. (2018). “Delinking, food sovereignty, and populist agronomy: notes on an intellectual history of the peasant path in the global South.” Review of African Political Economy.
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