University of Georgia Department of Anthropology / Ecological and Environmental

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Michigan 1992

• Environmental Anthropology
• Cultural politics of conservation
• Political ecology
• Transnational environmental movements and institutions
• Hunter-gatherers
• Tropical adaptations
• Insular Southeast Asia.

My research links anthropology and conservation. I have a long-standing interest in the human ecology of Southeast Asia, particularly with respect to issues of environmental degradation.

• 2005 Lourdes Arizpe Award in Anthropology and Environment, American Anthropological Association

• Brosius, J. Peter. 2004. "Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas at the World Parks Congress." Conservation Biology 18(5): 609-612.
• Mascia, Michael, J. Peter Brosius, Tracy Dobson, Bruce Forbes, Leah Horowitz, Margaret McKean and Nancy Turner. 2003. "Conservation and the Social Sciences." Conservation Biology 17(3): 649-650.
• Brosius, J. Peter. 2003. "Voices for the Borneo Rainforest: Writing the History of an Environmental Campaign.” In Imagination and Distress in Southern Environmental Projects, ed. Anna Tsing and Paul Greenough, 319-346. Durham: Duke University Press.