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Mailing Address Boston University 232 Bay State Road Boston, Massachusetts 02215 Mail address: 41 Pennsylvania Avenue, Apt 2 Somerville, Massachusetts 02145 USA

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Research Interests I am an environmental and symbolic anthropologist with a strong empirical and theoretical foundation in Southern and Central Africa. I teach courses on Africa, the social and biophysical environment, and anthropological theory. My research and writing to date has focused on the Mweru-Luapula region of northern Zambia and urban life in and around Lusaka. My dissertation, entitled "Weathering the Commons: Resilience and Heterogeneity in an Inland Fishery, Mweru-Luapula, Zambia," will be defended in October 2008. It concerns the interplay between environmental and human communities in a transnational fishery in south-central Africa. In the dissertation I describe and analyze the impact and processes at play as people socialize their environments, while also discussing how heterogeneous communities can..contrary to popular theory..sustainably manage a commonly held resource.

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Publications * "Navigating Constricted Channels: Local Cooption, Coercion, and Concentration under Co-management, Mweru-Luapula Fishery, Zambia," Journal of Political Ecology (accepted, in press). "'GM or Death': Food and Choice in Zambia," Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (peer reviewed), Spring 2004, 4(2): 16-23. [Also published as: Boston University African Studies Center Working Paper No. 247.] "'Legislating Liverpool': The Role of Law in the Development and Conservation of the Mweru-Luapula Fishery, Zambia." In Ann Seidman, Robert B. Seidman, Pumzo Mbana, and Hanson Hu Li, eds. 2007. Africa's Challenge: Using Law for Good Governance and Development. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, Inc., pp. 175-220.

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