Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona

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Associate Professor and Head, Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology

Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology, University of Arizona, 1981.

Research interests: Livelihood Vulnerability Analysis, Climate Variability and Global Change, Food Security, Applied Anthropology, Development, Participatory Development, Policy Analysis, Research
Methods, Lusophone and Francophone Africa, Brazil, Latin America, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh

Area studies courses: Mixed Methods in Applied Social Science Research (ANTH 609), Anthropology and Development (ANTH 331), Global Change Workshop (GC 597A)

Selected Publications

2003 "Climate Science and the Policy of Drought Mitigation in Ceará, Northeast Brazil" in S. Strauss and B. Orlove (eds.) Weather, Climate, Culture, New York: Berg Publishers, pp.203-216

2002 "Processes of Adaptation to Climate Variability: A Case Study from the U.S. Southwest" Climate Research 21(3): 299-310

2002 "The use of seasonal climate forecasting in policymaking: lessons from Northeast Brazil" With Lemos, M. C., R. Fox, D. Nelson, and J. Tucker. Climatic Change 55(4): 479-507

2001 "Making rain, making roads, making do: public and private responses to drought in Ceará, Brazil" (with Donald R. Nelson) Climate Research 19(2): 97-108

1997 Waiting for Rain: Agriculture and Ecological Imbalance in Cape Verde (with Mark W. Langworthy) Boulder, CO: Lynne-Rienner Publishers.