Sally Hamilton

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e | shamilto@du.edu

Cherrington Hall 307
2201 South Gaylord St
Denver, CO 80208 USA

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Sarah "Sally" Hamilton is an anthropologist whose research and teaching focus on economic development, social justice, and environmental sustainability in a global context, with particular emphasis on Latin America. Her policy-oriented research focuses on the economic, social, and environmental outcomes of development agendas promoted by bilateral and multilateral development organizations, nation states, and the private sector. Dr. Hamilton investigates the particularities of political economic history and culture which underlie local development agendas and, in the context of more macro-level political economic structures, help to explain and predict development outcomes. Ongoing studies analyze land tenure change, transnational migration, and rural development in Mexico; nontraditional agricultural export production, labor relations, and environmental outcomes in Central America; gender and export production in Ecuador and Guatemala; and the political ecology of gender and global pesticide use. She has served as a consultant to international, national, and local development organizations.