Barbara Thomas-Slayter

IDCE Research Professor

E-mail: bslayter@clarku.edu 

Tel:  (508) 793-7201 


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Barbara Thomas-Slayter received her doctorate in political science from Brandeis University in 1981. Her research interests include local institution-building; women and public policy; peasant behavior, household and community resource management; and dynamics of class, ethnicity, and gender in African development. Currently, Dr. Thomas-Slayter is Chair of the CIES Fulbright Selection Committee for Scholars from Africa.  She recently served on the Board of Directors at Oxfam America and was Chair to the Board's Global Committee. She was also as advisor for PROWID, a project sponsored by the Center for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) and the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), promoting women's organizations in the South. 

Selected Publications: 

Southern Exposure, International Development and the Global South in the Twenty-First Century. Kumarian Press, forthcoming October 2003.

Dianne Rocheleau, Barbara Thomas-Slayter and Esther Wangari, eds. 1996. Feminist Political Ecology: Global Issues and Local Experiences. New York: Routledge Press.

Barbara Thomas-Slayter and Genese Sodikoff, "Sustainable investments: women's contributions to natural resource management projects in Africa." Development in Practice, Vol. 11, No. 1, February 2001.

Barbara Thomas-Slayter and Dianne Rocheleau. 1995. Gender, Environment, and Development in Kenya: A Grassroots Perspective. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publisher. 

Barbara Thomas-Slayter, et al. 1995. A Manual for Socio-Economic and Gender Analysis: Responding to the Development Challenge. Worcester: Clark ECOGEN Publication.