Rodrigo Penna-Firme Pedrosa

PhD. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University
ACT, Indiana University
701 East Kirkwood Avenue
Student Building, Room 331
Bloomington, Indiana 47405
rpedrosa[at]indiana [dot] edu

PhD. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, Indiana University
M..S. Forestry and Environmental Sciences, Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003.
B.S., Biological Sciences, Santa Ursula University, Brazil, 1998.




Rodrigo Penna-Firme is a PhD candidate, working in the Brazilian Atlantic Rain Forest. He is interested in human-environmental relations, the intersection between development and nature conservation and the social costs of the establishment of nature protected areas on ethnic identity and the livelihoods of the rural poor.