Todd French

Region of Interest	Africa
Primary Country of Residence	United States of America
Title	Visiting Assistant Professor
Affiliation	Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont
Email	tfrench@middlebury.edu
Mailing Address	Department of Sociology and Anthropology Middlebury College Middlebury, VT 05753 USA
Phone/Fax Number(s)	phone: 802-443-5755
Countries of Specialization	Mozambique
Research Interests	In my dissertation that is entitled, "'Like Leaves Fallen by Wind': Resilience, Remembrance, and Restoration in central Mozambique," I explore conflicts surrounding the reconstruction of landscapes and livelihoods in the wake of decades of civil war and environmental disasters and is part of my general interest in the relationship between social and ecological resilience in the face of violent conflict and environmental instability. I also reconstruct how humans in central Mozambique have responded to various disruptions, such as violence, drought, and relocation, to understand why at some moments these systems have been resilient and other times vulnerable to collapse. Finally, I examine the field of power relations at various scales, in which social actors construct memories and discourses about the landscape during post-conflict reconstruction. Ongoing research is on the cultural politics of social memory.
Publications	None on file.
Keywords	politics ; history ; ecology ; social memory ; landscape ; culture