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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



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