MARIANNE SCHMINK
January, ****
Professor
Latin American Studies and Anthropology
Center for Latin American Studies Phone 352-***-****
University of Florida Fax 352-***-****
Gainesville, Florida 32611 E-mail: abo0qw@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
Ph. D. 1979 University of Texas at Austin (Anthropology)
B.A. 1971 University of Michigan (Anthropology, with High Distinction and High Honors)
PROFESSIONAL INTERESTS
Latin America and the Caribbean; Brazil; the Amazon
Economic development; women and development; urbanization; migration; frontier
settlement;
tropical resource management; development policy; interdisciplinary methods and concepts
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Florida
Director, Tropical Conservation and Development (
; Acting Assoc. Dir. Jan.-May 1984
;
Acting Asst. Dir. Jan.-
May
1979
Director, Amazon Research and Training Program (ARTP), September 1980 to 1993Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
Visiting professor for gender and development course, 1992
Researcher for study of migration to the Amazon region, Center for Development and
Regional
Planning (CEDEPLAR), Belo Horizonte,
December 1975-December 1977University of Texas at Austin
Teaching Assistant, Department of Anthropology, September 1977-June 1978
Research Associate, Population Research Center, June-August 1973
HONORS AND AWARDS
Recipient, Premio Chico Mendes da Florestania, awarded by the Fundacao de Cultura e
Comunicacao Elias Mansour, Acre, Brazil, December 2009
Finalist, UF Distinguished Alumni Award, 2009
Selected as Lifetime Member, UF Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars; Academic
Advisory Board, Fall 2009-Spring 2012
Selected for recognition at the Faculty Achievement Recognition Reception (FARR), for
milestone
achievements in interdisciplinary graduate program building and extramural fund-raising,
University of Florida, 2007
Honorable Mention, Chico Mendes Prize in the Science and Technology category, Brazilian
Environment Ministry, awarded to the Tropical Conservation and Development program,
University of Florida, 2005
Distinguished International Educator Award, University of Florida, 2004
Doctoral Dissertation Advisor/Mentor Award, University of Florida, 2002
Awarded medal for "University Merit" by the Federal University of Acre, Rio Branco, Acre,
Brazil,
October 1992
Division of Sponsored Research, UF, Research Achievement Award for top 100 researchers
for
1990-1991 and for 1991-1992LANGUAGES
Spanish (fluent)
Portuguese (fluent)
French (fair)GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
USAID, Co-PI (with Walter Bowen and Steven Sargent) of Trilateral Cooperation Food
Security
USAID, Brazil, Mozambique (RFA-512-**-******) to negotiate, plan, coordinate, and
implement the USAID-funded component of the Trilateral Cooperation Agreement between the
United States and Brazil, December 2010-December 2014 ($7,761,670)
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Arika Virapongse), Participating in the
forest product
market: the role of knowledge transformation and livelihood assets in a buriti (Mauritia
flexuosa)
palm leaf market in Barreirinhas, Maranhao (Brazil), July 2010-July 2011 ($14,978)
World Agroforestry Center USAID Linkage Grant, Co-PI (with Karen A. Kainer) of grant to
support
graduate student research and a research seminar in Brazil, Improving tree product
marketing
for smallholders: Research on Amazonian entrepreneurs, markets, and institutions, May-
December 2010 ($10,000)
Mellon Foundation and Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Grant Seminar series, PI
of
grant to support conference on Bridging Conservation and Development in Latin America
and
Africa: Changing Contexts, Changing Strategies, and panel at LASA Congress in Toronto,
October 2010 ($22,000) October 2009-October 2010
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Co-PI (with Bob Buschbacher and Daniel Zarin) of
Amazon
Conservation Leadership Initiative for training and capacity building in the Andes-Amazon
region
(ACLI), 2008-2011 ($2,157,340)
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Maria di Giano), Privatizing the Commons?
Mexico?s Forestry Ejidos 15 Years after Agrarian Counter-reform,
August, 2008-August 2009
($3,300)
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Mason Mathews), Social Capital in the
Transition
from Patron-Client to Social Movement Networks in Brazilian Amazonia, October, 2007-
October
2008 ($10,970)
U.S. Agency for International Development, Amazon Basin Conservation Initiative, Co-PI
(with
Stephen Perz, PI), Experiments in Environmental Governance in the MAP Region Madre de
Dios, Peru Acre, Brazil Pando, Bolivia, October 1, 2006-September 30, 2011
($3,893,196)
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Co-PI (with Daniel Zarin) of Amazon Conservation
Leadership Initiative for training and capacity building in the Andes-Amazon region
(ACLI), 2004-
2008 ($1,910,000)
Hewlett Foundation, Principal Investigator of project to support research, training, and
collaborative activities to build capacity for community forestry and agroforestry in
Brazil, 2000-
2008 ($700,000)
U.S. Agency for International Development member of ALFA Consortium, Principal
Investigator
(with Co-PIs Bob Buschbacher, Emilio Bruna, Hannah Covert, Jon Dain, Karen Kainer,
Frances
Putz, and Daniel Zarin), Sustainable Communities and Landscapes: A Proposed Program to
Sustain Natural Ecosystems and Enhance Local Livelihoods in Brazil?s Amazon & Atlantic
Forest
Regions, 2003-2007
($604,482)
MacArthur Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator (with E. Bastidas, J. Dain, and K.
Kainer),
Training and capacity building in community-based conservation for institutions working
in
protected areas of Ecuador and Colombia, October 2003-September 2007 ($240,000)
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Jeff Luzar), Highway Paving, Deforestation,
and
Governance along the Trans-Oceanic Highway in the Brazilian State of Acre, June 2004-July
2005 ($7,060)
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Eric Minzenberg), Hunting in the Rural
Livelihood
Systems of Peasant Households in Seringal Sao Salvador, Acre, Brazil,
June 2003-July 2004
($9,736)
Woods Hole Research Center, Co-Principal Investigator (with Stephen Perz), Land-Cover and
Land-Use Change in the Tri-Frontier Area of Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru: Implications for
Sustainable Land Use in Southwestern Amazonia, April 2003-March 2006 ($35,000)
National Science Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator (with D. Zarin, S. Jacobson, K.
Kainer,
and F. Putz), Working Forests in the Tropics, Integrated Graduate Education Research and
Training Grant, October 1, 2002-September 31, 2007
($2,985,067).
Disney Wildlife Conservation Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator (with C. Sahley),
Community-
Based Management and Conservation of the Vicuna in Andean Peru, 2001-2003 ($35,000)
U.S. Agency for International Development Subcontractor for Chemonics, Co-Principal
Investigator (with D. Zarin and F.E. Putz), International Bolivia Sustainable Forestry,
2001-2003
($861,695)
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Richard Wallace), The Effects of Wealth and
Markets on Forest Household Use and Knowledge of Extractive Resources in the Western
Brazilian Amazon, August 2001-July 31, 2002 ($11,355)
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Samantha Stone), Differential Participation
and
Distribution of Benefits and Costs in Community Based Timber Projects in Brazil, July
2001-June
2002 ($3,938)
Milton and Miriam Handler Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator (with T. Ankersen and D.
Zarin),
Bolivian Forestry Law Project: Stakeholder Impact Analysis, 2001 ($15,000)
U.S. Forest Service, Co-Principal Investigator (with F.E. Putz and D. Zarin), Research in
Support
of Sustainable Forest Management in Bolivia, 2000-2002 ($200,000)
Summit Foundation, Co-Principal Investigator (with Joshua C. Dickinson III and Daniel J.
Zarin) of
project entitled Sustainable Forest Management in the Bayano Watershed of Panama: A
Feasibility Assessment, March-October, 2001 ($63,192.50).
U.S. Agency for International Development, Project Manager and co-author of unsolicited
grant to
the University of Florida and the PESACRE group, to support "Agroforestry Development
Program for Small Producers in the State of Acre, Brazil", September 1990-September 2003
and
"Managing the Environment and Resources with Gender Emphasis (MERGE)" support program
for the Environment program, Brazil ($3,834,226).
WIDTECH, Co-Principal Investigator (with Denise Garrafiel) for Case Study Series and
Workshop
on Community, Gender, and Protected Areas, 1999-2000 ($29,000)
Ford Foundation and State of Florida, Co-Author of proposal for endowment support for the
Tropical Conservation and Development program, University of Florida, 1999 ($4,000,000)
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Victoria Reyes-Garcia) of research entitled
Effects
of Market Economies on Ethnobotanical Knowledge among Tsimane? Communities in the
Bolivian
Amazon, July 1999-December 2000 ($11,960).
National Science Foundation, Supervisor (of Amanda Stronza) of research entitled
Tourists and
Amazonian Hosts: Impacts on Economy, Values and Forests, May 1998-May 1999 ($8,122).
International Food Policy Research Institute, Co-Principal Investigator (with Avecita
Chicchon) for
field research program entitled Gender and Intra-Household Impacts of Community-Based
Conservation and Development Initiatives in Peru and Brazil, 1997-2000 ($19,988).
Ford Foundation, Co-Author of proposal for The Conservation and Development Forum, to
support a program to review learning on conservation and development experiences
worldwide,
1996-1999 ($1,000,071).
Ford Foundation,
Co-Author of proposal for renewal of support for the Tropical
Conservation and
Development program,
University of Florida, 1995-1999 ($250,000).
MacArthur Foundation,
Co-Author of proposal for renewal of support for the Tropical
Conservation and Development program,
University of Florida, 1995-1999 ($252,000).
MacArthur Foundation, Co-Author of proposal for "Managing the Environment and Resources
with Gender Emphasis (MERGE)" to support a collaborative program of training, networking
and
technical assistance in Peru and Ecuador, January 1995-December 1998 ($200,000).
North-South Center, Co-Principal Investigator (with Avecita Chicchon) for field research
program
entitled Sustainable Development with Local Populations in Protected Area Sites: A
Comparative Research Program, 1996-1997
($29,835)
North-South Center, Principal Investigator (with Peter Cronkleton) for field research
proposal
entitled Landownership Turnover Among Resettled Populations in Acre, Brazil, July -
December,
1995 ($9,259).
National Geographic Society, Co-Principal Investigator (with Masaaka M. Yamada) for field
research proposal entitled Community Agroforestry Management of Japanese Immigrants in
the
Amazon, November 1994-November 1996 ($18,610).
U.S. Information Agency, Academic Specialist Program, environmental affairs consultant to
the
Latin American Faculty for the Social Sciences (FLACSO), Quito, Ecuador, July 1994
U.S. Information Agency, University Affiliations Program, UF Director and co-author of a
proposal
to support exchange program in Ecology and Environmental Sciences with the Federal
University
of Minas Gerais, Brazil, August 1990-August 1995
($74,990)
UNICEF grant for collaboration in Amazon Basin Program,
November 1990-December 1991
($11,200)
U.S. Dept. of Education, Fulbright-Hays Faculty Research Abroad award ($29, 988) and
Social
Science Research Council Grant for Advanced International Research in Latin American
Studies
($15,000) for research on "Urbanization in Amazonia: Eco-Demographic Change in Rio
Branco,
Acre, Brazil", July 1989 - August 1990.
U.S. Man in the Biosphere Program, co-author of grant to support workshop on "Traditional
Resource Use in Neotropical Forests", Gainesville, Florida, 19-22 January 1989 ($26,000)
Ford Foundation, Brazil, principal author of proposals for grants to support a program of
technical/scientific cooperation between the University of Florida and the Federal
University of
Acre, Brazil, November 1987, June 1988, and June 1989 ($260,050)
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, co-author of proposal for grant to support the Amazon
Research
and Training Program, University of Florida, September 1980 to 1989 ($250,000)
USAID, co-author of proposal for collaborative agreement with the Population Council to
support
project on "Women, Low Income Households and Urban Services in Latin America and the
Caribbean",
August 1981-December 1987 ($594,531)
University of Florida, Amazon Research and Training Program, travel grant for research
and
program activities in Brazil, April 1987 ($2,800)
Rockefeller Foundation, grant to support conference on "Gender Issues in Farming Systems
Research and Extension", Women in Agriculture Program, University of Florida, February 26-
March 1, 1986 ($8,000)
Ford Foundation, New York, grant to support conference on "Gender Issues in Farming
Systems
Research and Extension", Women in Agriculture Program, University of Florida, February 26-
March 1, 1986 ($22,500)
National Science Foundation, co-author of proposal for grant to support "U.S.-Latin
American
Workshop on Comparative Amazonian Development", Lima, Peru, May 1985 ($21,964)
University of Florida, Division of Sponsored Research, Research Development Award,
"Development Policy and Frontier Expansion in the Brazilian Amazon: Impact Study in
Southern
Para",
May 1984-May 1985 ($22,232)
Inter-American Foundation, principal author of proposal for grant to support conference
on
"Frontier Expansion in Amazonia", Amazon Research and Training Program, University of
Florida, February 8-11 1982 ($20,000)
International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada, principal author of proposal
for
grant to CEDEPLAR (Brazil) to support Phase II of a longitudinal study of frontier
expansion in the
Amazon, 1981 ($79,700 Canadian)
Tinker Foundation, Post-Doctoral Fellowship, January-December 1980 ($14,000)
Population Council, grant to study the impact of urban policies on women in Latin
America,
January 1979-May 1980 ($18,500)
Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, Latin
America
and Caribbean Program, Dissertation Research Fellowship,
June 1975-December 1976
($10,000)
Fubright-Hays, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, July 1975-June 1976
($8,000)
Social Science Research Council, grant to support participation in Inter-American
Research
Training Seminar, "Feminine Perspectives in Social Science Research in Latin America",
Cuernavaca, Mexico, June 1975-December 1976
National Defense Foreign Language Title VI Fellowships, University of Texas at Austin,
for
Spanish 1972-1974; for Portuguese 1974-1975
Honors Council, University of Michigan, grant for field work training in Nicaragua and
language
study in Mexico, May-August 1971
PUBLICATIONS
Latin American Anthropology Newsletter IV, September 1988
Review of Violeta Loureiro, Os Parceiros do Mar, Studies in Comparative International
Development XXI (Summer): 2: 79-81, 1986
Review of Peggy Barlett (ed.), Agricultural Decision Making, American Ethnologist 10: 3:
626-628,
1983
DEVELOPMENT CONTRACTS AND CONSULTATIONS
Consultant, University of New Mexico Latin American Studies program, November 14-16, 2007
(part of team to review Latin American and Iberian Institute programs)
Consultant, Center for International Forestry Research, 2003-2006 (advise on analysis of
models
of technical assistance for community forest management in Central America and Brazil)
Consultant, Forest Management Trust, March 2002-May, 2003 (advise on forest management
projects by USAID in Latin America)
Consultant, Ford Foundation, July-August 2001 (advise on interdisciplinary research and
training
program in Sustainable Development at the Federal University of Acre, Brazil)
Invited participant, "Working Session on Communities, Institutions and Policies- Moving
from
Environmental Research to Results", sponsored by WIDTech and the Global/Women in
Development office of U.S. Agency for International Development, Sept. 16-17, 1997 in
Washington, D.C..
Consultant, Conservation International-Peru, March 1996 (advise on community-based
conservation in Tambopata, Peru)
Consultant, Management Systems International, March 1996 (serve on expert advisory board
for
an evaluation of United Nations Development Fund for Women)
Consultant, John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation, March-April 1993 (advise the
World
Environment and Resources program staff about institutional strategies for the Tropical
Andes)
Member, Review Panel to evaluate Unit Directives Plan of the Brazilian Agricultural
Research
Company (EMBRAPA), Acre, Brazil, 19-20 November, 1991
Member, Design Team for USAID MAYAREMA Natural Resource Management Project in the
Peten Peninsula, Guatemala, March-April 1990 (WID/gender and social science specialist)
Trainer, short course on "Managing FSR/E for Sustainable Agricultural Development in the
Philippines," Gainesville, Florida, 11-15 June, 1989
Consultant, USAID Regional Office for the Caribbean (Barbados), January 1989 (advise on
incorporation of gender considerations into agricultural research and extension
institutions)
Lead trainer, Federal University of Acre, Brazil, training courses in adaptive research
methods,
June 1988 and July 1989
Co-Manager, Population Council/USAID project on "Women, Low Income Households and Urban
Services in Latin America and the Caribbean", September 1981-December, 1987 (support for
interdisciplinary working groups in Peru, Mexico and Jamaica to carry out research,
dissemination
and consulting activities)
Consultant, USAID, Program and Policy Coordination/Center for Documentation and
Evaluation
(PPC/CDIE),
March 1985-July 1986 (evaluation of AID's 10-year record of implementation of
women and development programs)
Consultant, International Women's Health Coalition, November 1985-January 1986 (advice on
program development in Brazil)
Consultant, Ford Foundation, January 1984; October 1978; June 1976 (advice and evaluation
of
various aspects of the Foundation's programs on women in Latin America)
Consultant, Population Council, October 1979-September 1981
(advice on programs for the
Latin
American region)
Consultant, Brazilian Urban Transport Company (EBTU), July 1979 (advice on design of a
study
of the relationship between transport, employment, and poverty)
Consultant, Ford Foundation (New York), September 1978 (on population and resources in
the
Amazon region)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Reviewer for:
(grant and fellowship proposals) Educational Foundation of America; Fulbright-Hays;
Guggenheim Foundation; Instituto Internacional de Educacao do Brasil, U.S. Man in the
Biosphere Program; MacArthur Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; National
Atmospheric and Space Administration; National Science Foundation; Jesse Smith Noyes
Foundation; Lindbergh Foundation; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of
Canada; Wenner-Gren Foundation
(manuscripts) Columbia University Press; Duke University Press; University Press of
Florida;
Kumarian Press; New York Botanical Garden; Stanford University Press; State University of
New
York Press; University of Michigan Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; Rutgers
University
Press;
Member,Premio Iberoamericano Book Award Prize Committee, Latin American Studies
Association, 2010-2011
Elected Member, Executive Committee, Brazilian Studies Association, 2010-2014
Member, Program Committee, Brazilian Studies Association Tenth International Congress,
Brasilia, Brazil, July 22-24, 2010.
Guest Co-Editor (with Jose Jouve-Martin, Latin American Research Review, Special Issue on
Contemporary Debates on Ecology, Culture and Society. 2008-2009. Also, co-organizer and
co-
chair of three panels by the same title, Latin American Studies Association meeting, Rio
de
Janeiro, June 10-14, 2009.
Member, Editorial Board, Human Ecology, 2007-present
UF representative, Consortium on Brazilian Studies (COBRAS), 2007-present
Member, Roberto Reis Book Prize Committee, Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), 2007-
2008
Member, Editorial Board, Novos Cadernos do Nucleo de Altos Estudos Amazonicos (NAEA),
Federal University of Para, Brazil, 2006-present
Member, Editorial Board, American Anthropologist, 2005-2008
Member, Technical Review Panel, Lindbergh Foundation, 2004-2007
Member, Review Panel, Doctoral Dissertation Cultural Anthropology Program, National
Science
Foundation, 2003-2005
Member, Editorial Board, Latin American Research Review, April 2003-March 2005
Member, Research Planning Committee, BOLFOR (Bolivia Sustainable Forest Management
Project), USAID/Chemonics International, 2000-2004
Member, Gender Unit External Advisory Committee, International Development Research
Centre,
Canada, September-October, 2001
Secretary-Treasurer, Forest Management Trust, January 1, 2002-December 31, 2003; Member,
Board of Directors, September 2000-December 31, 2003
Member, Program Advisory Board, Population and Environment Fellows Program, University of
Michigan, April 1997-June 2002
Member, Standing Committee on International Exchange, Commission on International
Affairs,
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges, January 1994-January
1997
Founding Member, Standing Committee on Cultural Dimensions of Global Change,
International
Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, December 1989
Co-Organizer, International Conference on "On Common Ground: Interdisciplinary Approaches
to Biodiversity Conservation and Land Use Dynamics in the New World", sponsored by
UF/UFMG/LASA/CI, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, December 1-4, 1993.
Member, Anthropology Screening Committee, Fulbright Program of University Lecturing and
Advanced Research Awards Abroad,
July 1987-June 1991
Vice-Chair, Directorate for Tropical Ecosystems, U.S. Man in the Biosphere Program;
December
1989 to December 1990
; Member, Directorate for Tropical and Sub-Tropical Forests (MAB-1),
January 1982 to August 1989
Co-Director, Women in Agriculture Program, University of Florida, July 1984-May 1987
Organizer, Conference on "Gender Issues in Farming Systems Research and Extension",
Women in Agriculture Program, University of Florida, February 26-March 1,1986
Co-organizer, "U.S.-Latin American Workshop on Comparative Amazonian Development", Lima,
Peru, May 1985
Coordinator, conference on "Frontier Expansion in Amazonia", Amazon Research and Training
Program, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, February 8-11 1982
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Brazilian Studies Association (Member, Program Committee, Tenth International Congress,
Brasilia, Brazil, July 22-24, 2010; Elected Member, Executive Committee, 2010-2014))
Latin American Studies Association (Life Member; Member, Premio Iberoamericano Book Award
Committee, 2010-2011; Chair, Agrarian and Rural Life Chair, Program Committee for
meeting in Dallas, 2003; Chair, Section on the Environment, Program Committee for meeting
in Guadalajara, 1997; Chairperson, Task Force on Scholarly Relations among the Social,
Natural, and Engineering Sciences Communities, 1992-1995; Member of Task Force on
Natural Resources and the Environment, 1988 to 1990; Member of Nominations Committee,
1982, 1989-1990, Chair 2000-01; Member of Task Force on Academic Freedom and Human
Rights, 1982-1983)
American Anthropological Association (Chair, 1997-1998, Member 1994-1997, Award Committee
for the Solon T. Kimball Fund for Public and Applied Anthropology)
Society for Applied Anthropology
Association for Women in Development (Elected Member of Board of Directors, 1986-1987)
PAPERS/SEMINARS/POSTERS PRESENTED
Experiments in Socio-Environmental Development on the MAP Frontier in Acre, Brazil,
Invited
Lecture, Field Museum, Environment, Culture, and Conservation Program, September 14,
2010,
Chicago
"Building a new generation of sustainable development practitioners: The Masters in
Development Practice at the University of Florida and the global MDP network."Grenville
Barnes,
Brian Child, Sheila Onzere, Tom Ankersen, Walter Bowen,
Carmen Diana Deere, Jorge Hernandez, Jamie Kraft, Mary Peoples-Shepps,
Ignacio Porzecanski, Marianne Schmink, Leo Villalon, Phil Williams (2010 Proceedings of
XXIV
International Federation of Geomatics (FIG) Congress, Sydney, Australia.
http://www.fig.net/pub/fig2010/papers/ts02g/ts02g_barnes_child_4243.pdf
Perspectivas de Vida na Reserva Extrativista: A Visao dos Moradores da Resex do Medio
Jurua
(AM) ( Life Perspectives in the Extractive Reserve: The Vision of Residents of the
Middle Jurua
Extractive Reserve in Amazonas