Visiting Scholars
Below are some of the many visitors we've had to ACT.
Over the years ACT has received senior scholars (e.g. Robert Netting), mid-career scholars (e.g. Marcos Pedlowski), and younger scholars and doctoral students. We encourage U.S. and foreign scholars, postdocs, and graduate students wishing to enhance their research skills on the human dimensions of global environmental change to contact us to discuss your goals and what you hope to accomplish, and what skills and questions you want to address, in particular, during your training and research stay with us. We will also need to know how much time you might be able to spend at ACT and whether you will come with your data and funding or not. We will schedule your coming at a mutually convenient time when ACT faculty and staff can be more available to you. We have also helped some scholars prepare grants for funding to make a prolonged stay possible.
We invite colleagues who feel that their work can be advanced by a short or extended visit, to contact us at act@indiana.edu. Welcome!!!
- Humberto Alves
- Academic year: 2001
biro[at]obelix [dot] unicamp - Humberto Alves, a doctoral candidate at Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) at the time of his visit with us, was granted a CNPq "sandwich" scholarship to work with members of this science team for a one-year period (2000-2001).
- Marina Campos
- Academic Year:
mcampos[at]rffny [dot] org - Marina Campos was a doctoral student at Yale University at the time of her visit to ACT. She visited on two separate occasions to work with ACT researchers on a plan for research develpoment on sustainable agriculture and development in Altamira, PA.
- Juliana De Souza Cardoso
- Academic year: 2005
jucardoso.2005[at]hotmail [dot] com - Juliana de Souza Cardoso, was a doctoral student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais at the time of her visit and undertook a very intense program during her six-month visit to ACT in 2005 which included auditing graduate courses in archeology and linguistics and undertaking a demanding program of readings in cultural ecology and ethnoecology linked to her key questions in linguistics and archeology.
- Marco Cervellini
- Academic year: 2011
School of Environmental Sciences botany and Ecology section
University of Camerino
via Pontoni, 5 – 62032 Camerino (MC) - Italy
Phone: +390737404517
marco.cervellini[at]unicam [dot] it -
In 2009, Marco was a research assistant at The Macaulay Land Use Research Institute (Aberdeen, UK) where he built a spatially explicit meta-community model using an existing simulating tool (FEARLUS-SPOM see: POLHILL et al. 2008) and analyzed the results obtained. He has taught a laboratory of landscape ecology course in the Science department at the University of Camerino and joins ACT this year for further research work.
- Larissa Chermont
- Academic year: 2001
Development Studies Institute - DESTIN
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London, WC 2A 2AE
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 207 955 6054
L.Chermont[at]lse [dot] ac - Larissa Chermont, was a student pursuing a Ph.D. degree at London School of Economics, U.K. and visited Indiana University for three weeks in 2001. During this time she received training in GIS and remote sensing and collaborated with the ACT team on the preparation of a survey research protocol to be used in her research in Santarém, and returned for a second visit to work on some chapters of her dissertation.
- Luciana Miranda Costa
- Academic year: 2005
IPAM - Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia
Al.Tatiana, 73
Belém PA 66613-020
BRAZIL
Phone: (91) 238.0400
lucianac[at]amazon [dot] com - Luciana Miranda Costa, was a Ph. D. student at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) and visited ACT for a three-month period in 2005 training under the supervision of Dr. Eduardo Brondizio.
- Luciano Mansor De Mattos
- Academic year: 2010
luciano.mattos[at]embrapa [dot] br - Agronomist (University of Sao Paulo, USP, Brazil, 1993); Master in Environmental Engineering (University of Sao Paulo, USP, Brazil, 1998) with research topic in ecological modeling; PhD in Economic Development (Campinas State University, Brazil, 2010) with research topic in ecological economics and agricultural economics; Visiting Scholar at the ACT (Indiana University, 2009/10) during the PhD with research complementary topic in Social Anthropology and Global Environmental Change.
- Natalia Hanazaki
- Academic year: 2001
natalia[at]ccb [dot] ufsc - Natalia Hanazaki spent two months at ACT for training at the Indiana University in 2001. She also worked on the final chapters of her dissertation and collaborated with Dr. Emilio Moran in a joint paper. Dr. Moran served on her dissertation defense as an outside member of her doctoral committee at Unicamp, Campinas, Brazil.
- Gabriel Henrique Lui
- Academic year: 2010
glui[at]indiana [dot] edu - Research interests: the effects of public policies in the Brazilian Amazon, especially to land use changes among small farmer populations, integrating approaches from environmental anthropology, human ecology, landscape ecology and economics
- Rui Sergio Sereni Murrieta
- Academic year: 2011
mailto:murrietarss[at]usp [dot] br - Rui Murrieta is Assistant Professor at the Department of Genetics and Evolution at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. He obtained his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Colorado in 2000. Since then, he has done extensive research on the nutritional and environmental anthropology of Amazonian and Atlantic Forest peoples in Brazil.
- Robert Netting
- Academic year: 1994
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Robert Netting was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and spent a year at ACT acquiring skills in GIS and remote sensing to develop a new project in Africa in 1994. He lost a battle with cancer in 1995. He was one of the leaders of Cultural Ecology for decades.
- Marcos Pedlowski
- Academic year: 2001
pedlowma[at]uenf [dot] br -
Marcos Pedlowski, Associate Professor, Center of Human Sciences, Northern Fluminense State University, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, visited ACT in 2001 to discuss comparative research across Altamira and Rondonia and a collaborative program with LBA projects.
- Claudia Rodriguez-Solórzano
- Academic year: 2012
crsolorzano[at]me [dot] com[at] - Claudia Rodriguez-Solórzano is a comparative social scientist of human-environment interactions, with a background in environmental economics, policy and politics.
- Anders Siren
- Academic year: 1998, 2002
Dept. of Geography
University of Turku
FIN-20014 Turku
Finland
Phone: +358-2-3335588
andsir[at]utu [dot] fi - Anders Siren, as a Ph.D. student at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, came to ACT for two visits in 1998 and 2002 to work with Dr. Brondizio. Since 2010 he has been involved in a project at the dept. of geography at the University of Turku about biodiversity harvest in the Amazon.