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Jeremy Campbell

Jeremy Campbell   
    Email:  jmcampbe@ucsc.edu
    Personal Page:  http://web.mac.com/jeremy_campbell/

Education History 
M.A. Anthropology
Univeristy of California, Santa Cruz

B.A. Anthropology
Davidson College

Research Focus 
Dissertation Title:
"The Social Life of an Amazonian Highway: Mobility, Speculation, and Development Politics in Brazil," based on 18 months of fieldwork in western Pará, Brazil.
Expected finish date: May, 2009.

Sub-fields of research specialization:
Ethnography & history, political ecology, development, Amazonia, Brazil.

Specific areas of expertise:
Development and modernity in Amazonia; land speculation, migration, and corruption; indigenous and environmental social movements; frontier expansion, colonization, and agrarian reform in Brazil; histories of the future; sustainability science and participatory development.