As a development sociologist and practitioner in international development and humanitarian assistance, Cindy Caron’s research focuses on gender relations in a variety of contexts: agricultural production, access to land and natural resources, land and natural resource governance, displacement, and reconstruction programming. She also researches adolescent girls empowerment programming and problematizes girlhood. Her research employs qualitative…

Professor Yelena Ogneva-Himmelberger joined the faculty in 2006 after several years of teaching GIS and remote sensing at Mount Holyoke College and Tufts University. She received Ph.D. from Clark University, and B.A./M.A. degrees in Geography with distinction from Moscow State University.  Yelena’s research lies at the intersection of Geographic Information Science, human-environment geography, and public…

Laurie Ross brings expertise in developing and supporting long-term community-university partnerships that address the social determinants of youth violence. The intractability of youth violence requires horizontal knowledge and strategy production (i.e. responses that are co-created by individuals and communities affected by violence, staff at the frontlines, and institutional actors with decision-making authority and control over…

Jude Fernando is completing a book, Political Economy of NGOs: Modernizing Post-modernity, which examines the controversial social roles of micro-credit NGOs in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh and their links to the state, based on his long-term fieldwork in the 1990s. He was principal investigator for the project, “Sustainable Development and Civic Society,” funded by…

David Bell is an international and comparative educationalist and psychologist who has worked extensively in Southern Africa in the field of education, empowerment, social transformation and community development and program evaluation. Prior to moving to the United States in 1997, he worked in both formal and non-formal education and in a range of community empowerment…