Lab Alumni Ph.D.

Amity Doolittle

  • Ph.D. 1999, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia, 1881-1996

Sudha Vasan

  • Ph.D. 2000, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Contested Categories, Blurred Boundaries: Rural Society, Forest Bureaucracy and Timber Rights in Himachal Pradesh, India

Emily Harwell

  • Ph.D. 2000, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - The Un-Natural History of Culture: Ethnicity, Tradition and Territorial Conflicts in West Kalimantan, 1800-1997

Pamela D McElwee

  • Ph.D. 2003, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - ‘Lost Worlds’ or ‘Lost Causes’? Biodiversity Conservation, Forest Management, and Rural Life in Vietnam

Daniel Smith

  • Ph.D. 2003, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Constructing Places, Inventing Regions: Environmental Discourses and Policy Contests in the Northern Forest

Seth Cook

  • Ph.D. 2004, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Rainwater Harvesting in Gansu Province, China: Development and Modernity in a State Sponsored Rural Water Supply Project

Andrew Mathews

  • Ph.D. 2004, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - Forestry Culture: Knowledge, Institutions and Power in Mexican Forestry, 1926-2001

Keely Maxwell

  • Ph.D. 2004, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Lost Cities and Exotic Cows: Constructing the Space of Nature and Culture in the Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary, Peru

Anne Rademacher

  • Ph.D. 2005, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - Culturing Urban Ecology: Development, Statemaking, and River Restoration in Kathmandu

Laura Meitzner Yoder

  • Ph.D. 2005, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Custom, Codification, Collaboration: Integrating the Legacies of Land and Forest Authorities in Oecusse Enclave, East Timor

Christiane Ehringhaus

  • Ph.D. 2005, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Post-Victory Dilemmas: Land Use, Development Policies, and Social Movement in Amazonian Extractive Reserves

John Tuxill

  • Ph.D. 2005, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Agrodiversity and Agrarian Change in Mayan Milpas of Yucatan: Implications for In Situ Conservation

Julie Velásquez Runk

  • Ph.D. 2005, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - And the Creator Began to Carve Us of Cocobolo: Historical Ecology of Wounaan Forest Use in Eastern Panama

Eva Garen

  • Ph.D. 2005, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Negotiating Sustainable Development: An Ethnographic Appraisal of the Bay Islands Environmental management Project (PMAIB)

Vladimir R Gil

  • Ph.D. 2005, Yale University Department of Anthropology 

  • Dissertation - Strategies in Local Conflicts with a Transnational Mining Corporation in Peru: the Antamina Case

David Neidel

  • Ph.D. 2006, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - The Garden of Forking Paths: History, Its Erasure and Remembrance in Sumatra’s Kerinci Seblat National Park

Suk Bae (Steve) Rhee

  • Ph.D. 2006, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Brokering Authority: Translating Knowledge, Policy and Practice in Forestry Institutions in Indonesia

Marina T. Campos

  • Ph.D. 2006, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - New Footprints in the Forest: Environmental Knowledge, Management Practices, and Social Mobilization among Colonos from the Transamazon Region

Janette Bulkan

  • Ph.D. 2009, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - The Slippages Between Forestry Concession Policies and Practices in Guyana

Shafqat Hussain

  • Ph.D. 2009, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - A History of Marginality: Nature and Culture in the Western Himalayas

Cassie Hays

  • Ph.D. 2009, Yale University Sociology Department

  • Dissertation - Sociology of Safari: Techné and Travel in Tanzania

Karina Yager

  • Ph.D. 2009, Yale University Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - A Herder’s Landscape: Deglaciation, Desiccation and Managing Green Pastures in the Andean Puna

Barry Muchnick

  • Ph.D. 2011, Yale University History Department and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Nature’s Republic: Fresh Air Reform and The Moral Ecology of Citizenship in Turn of the Century America

Jonathan Padwe

  • Ph.D. 2011, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - Garden Variety Histories: Postwar Social and Environmental Change in Northeast Cambodia

Shaila Seshia Galvin

  • Ph.D. 2013, Yale University Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - State of Nature: Agriculture, Development and the Making of Organic Uttarakhand

Sylvia Mitraud

  • Ph.D. 2013, Yale University Department of Sociology

  • Dissertation - Assessing Social Processes and Impacts of two Conservation and Development Projects in Brazil

Adrián Cerezo

  • Ph.D. 2014, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Nature Nurtures Nature: Measuring the Biophilic Design Elements in Childcare Centers as Related to the Developmental Outcomes of Children 34 to 38 months of Age

Dana Graef

  • Ph.D. 2015, Yale University Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Isles of Green: Environmentalism and Agrarian Change in Costa Rica and Cuba

David Kneas

  • Ph.D. 2014, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - Substance and Sedimentation: A Historical Ethnography of Landscape in the Ecuadorian Andes

Sarah Rae Osterhoudt

  • Ph.D. 2014, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Anthropology, and New York Botanical Garden

  • Dissertation - The Forest in the Field: The Cultural Dimensions of Agroforestry Landscapes in Madagascar

Catherine (Annie) Claus

  • Ph.D. 2014, Yale University Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Drawing Near: Conservation by Proximity in Okinawa’s Reefs

Lauren Baker

  • Ph.D. 2015, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Just Concessions? Indigenous Politics and Oil Development in the Northeast Peruvian Amazon

Jeff Stoike

  • Ph.D. 2015, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Cultivating Conservation: The Political Ecology of the Restoration of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest

Amy Zhang

  • Ph.D. 2016, Yale University Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Matter Transformed: Remaking Waste in Post-reform China

Alder Keleman

  • Ph.D. 2017, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Anthropology, and New York Botanical Garden

  • Dissertation - Out of the Field and Into the Kitchen: Agrobiodiversity, Food Security, and Food Culture in Cochabamba, Bolivia

Aysen Eren

  • Ph.D. 2017, Bo aziçi University, Institute of Environmental Sciences, Turkey

  • Dissertation - From Riverscape to Energyscape: Constructing the Space of Hydroelectricity Production in the Kzdere River Valley, Turkey

Matthew Archer

  • Ph.D. 2018, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Ecologies of Value: The Meanings and Measures of Corporate Sustainability

Sayd Randle

  • Ph.D. 2018, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - Replumbing the City: Water(s) and Space in Los Angeles

Lily Zeng

  • Ph.D. 2018, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Transformations of Indigenous Identity and Changing Meanings of Sacred Nature in Xishuangbanna, China

Luisa Cortesi

  • Ph.D. 2018, Yale University Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Living in Unquiet Waters: Knowledge and Technologies in North Bihar

Deepti Chatti

  • Ph.D. 2019, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Changing Hearths and Minds: Household Energy Transitions in Rural India

Myles Lennon

  • Ph.D. 2019, Yale University Department of Anthropology and School of Forestry and Environmental Studies

  • Dissertation - Affective Energy: Intersectional Solar Transitions in a Late Liberal Metropolis

Amy Johnson

  • Ph.D. 2020, Yale University Department of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment

  • Dissertation - State Re-Making: Federalism, Environment, and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Nepal

Paul Burow

  • Ph.D. 2023, Yale School of the Environment and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - The Ecology of Belonging: Cultural Dynamics of Environmental Change in the North American West

Yufang Gao

  • Ph.D. 2023, Yale School of the Environment and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - Envisioning Coexistence: Snow Leopards and Tibetan Herders in China’s First National Park

Vanessa Koh

  • Ph.D. 2023, Yale University Department of Anthropology and Yale School of the Environment 

  • Dissertation - Grounds of Governance: Terraformation and Environmental Politics in Postcolonial Singapore

Wen Zhou

  • Ph.D. 2024, Yale School of the Environment and Department of Anthropology

  • Dissertation - The concessionary regimes of Gabon, Central Africa: Corporate sovereignty, forest governance, and the post-colonial state

Kaggie Orrick

  • Ph.D. 2024, Yale School of the Environment

  • Dissertation - Social-Ecological Practice Theory and Human-Wildlife Interactions: People, Cattle, and Predators in Makgadikgadi, Botswana