Education
PhD, University of Kentucky
MA, University of Kentucky
BA, University of North Carolina
Professional Profile
Associate Professor and Director, MA Degree Program in International Development,
Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver (2000-present);
Program Director, Women in International Development, Office of International Research,
Education, and Development, Virginia Tech (1997-2000). Grants: Fulbright Dissertation
Research Fellow, Ecuador (1992-1993); Dissertation Fellow, The Graduate School, University
of Kentucky (1993-1995); Land Tenure, Population, Environment, and Health in Rural
Mexico, Ford Foundation/U. Pittsburgh grant (1996); Gender and Integrated Pest Management
(IPM) (individual grants for research in Philippines, Jamaica, Ecuador,) USAID (1997-2000);
Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of Non-traditional Agricultural Export
Production on Small Farm Households in Guatemala, USAID (1997-2006); IPM Technology
Transfer Methodology for Guatamala Ministry of Education, USAID (2005-2007); Socioeconomic
and Environmental Impacts of Nontraditional Agricultural Production on Small Farm
Households in Honduras, USAID (2005-2010); Impact Assessment in IPM (George Norton,
PI), USAID (2005-2010); Watershed-based Natural Resource Management in Small-scale
Agriculture: Sloped Areas of the Andean Region (Jeffrey Alwang, P.I.), USAID (2005-2010).
Expertise and Research
Anthropology of Latin America (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Ecuador, Bolivia); economic,
socio-political and environmental outcomes of sustainable development agendas promoted
by bilateral and multilateral development organizations, nation states and the private
sector (including: promotion of nontraditional agricultural export markets, decentralized
natural resource control, participatory research on alternatives to toxic agro-chemicals)
Courses
INTS 4521: International Development in Cross-Cultural Perspective
INTS 4514: Population, Development, and Environment in Latin America
INTS 4551: Political Economic Change and Ethnicity in Latin America
INTS 4373: Sustainable Development and the Environment
INTS 4379: Gender, Environment, and Development
INTS 3240: Gender and the Global Economy (graduate/undergraduate course)
INTS 4468: Politics of Development
INTS 4332: Data Analysis for Development
INTS 4669: Ideas that Shape Development: From Paradigm to Practice
