Nancy Lee Peluso
{{short description|American rural sociologist}}
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| education = B.A., 1978, Friends World College
M.Sc., PhD., Sociology of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cornell University
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University of California, Berkeley
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Nancy Lee Peluso is an American rural sociologist. She is the Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.{{Cite web|url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/04/20_guggenheim.shtml|title=04.20.2006 - Three UC Berkeley faculty members win Guggenheim fellowships}}
Education
After earning her BA from Friends World College, Peluso joined the Man and Biosphere Research Project No. 1 in Indonesia.{{cite web |title=TRI NEWS |url=https://tri.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/TRI%20News_vol11_no2.pdf |website=tri.yale.edu |access-date=September 3, 2019 |date=Fall 1992}} Upon her return, her main research focus was on Forest Politics and Agrarian Change in Southeast Asia.{{cite web |title=Nancy Lee Peluso |url=https://cstms.berkeley.edu/people/nancy-lee-peluso/ |website=cstms.berkeley.edu |access-date=September 12, 2019}} In 1984, she conducted her PhD dissertation research in Java, Indonesia and later published it in a book titled Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java.
Academic career
Peluso taught at the University of California, Berkeley from 1990 to 1992 and was a Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellow in Natural Resource Studies in the Energy Resource Group. In 1992, she was appointed an assistant professor of resource policy at Yale University.
Peluso coined the term 'counter-mapping' in 1995, having examined the implementation of two forest mapping strategies in Kalimantan. One set of maps belonged to state forest managers, and the international financial institutions that supported them, such as the World Bank. This strategy recognised mapping as a means of protecting local claims to territory and resources to a government that had previously ignored them.{{cite journal|last=Peluso|first=N.L|title=Whose Woods are These? Counter-Mapping Forest Territories in Kalimantan, Indonesia|journal=Antipode|year=1995|volume=27|issue=4|series=4|pages=383–406|doi=10.1111/j.1467-8330.1995.tb00286.x|s2cid=144737140}} She returned to the University of California, Berkeley in 1996 as an associate professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management.{{cite web |title=Focus on Indonesia |url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/1998/1014/indonesia.html |website=berkeley.edu |access-date=September 26, 2019 |date=October 14, 1998}}
In 2001, Peluso published Violent Environments through the Cornell University Press with Michael Watts.{{cite journal |author1=Tara O'Connor Shelley |title=Book Review: Peluso, N. L., & Watts, M. (Eds.). (2001). Violent Environments. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, Pp. ix, 453 |journal=International Criminal Justice Review |date=June 1, 2007 |volume=17 |issue=2 |pages=134–136 |doi=10.1177/1057567707302514 |s2cid=144071099}} In 2003, she was the recipient of a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship.{{cite web |title=2005 REPORT OF THE HARRY FRANK GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION |url=http://www.hfg.org/ar/hfg2005.pdf |website=hfg.org |access-date=September 25, 2019 |page=30 |date=2005}} Three years later, she was the recipient of a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship in order to examine territoriality, violence, and the production of landscape history in West Kalimantan, Indonesia.{{cite web |last1=Anwar |first1=Yasmin |title=Three UC Berkeley faculty members win Guggenheim fellowships |url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/04/20_guggenheim.shtml |website=berkeley.edu |access-date=September 26, 2019 |date=April 20, 2006}}{{cite web |title=Awards |url=https://www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2006/04/19_awards.shtml |website=berkeley.edu |access-date=September 26, 2019 |date=April 19, 2006}}
Pelusa was awarded Berkeley's 2012 Sarlo Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Senior Faculty Award.{{cite web |last1=Brody Guy |first1=Anne |title=Professors Peluso and Iles Honored for Mentoring |url=https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/professors-peluso-and-iles-honored-mentoring |website=ourenvironment.berkeley.edu |access-date=September 26, 2019 |date=April 9, 2012}} In 2015, Peluso was a Senior Fulbright Fellow in Indonesia, where she focused on illegal gold mining. She was also a co-investigator with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the University of Indonesia for a new National Science Foundation grant examining labor migration and its impact on land use in Indonesia.{{cite web |title=APPLICATION FOR GRANTS UNDER THE National Resource Centers and Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowships |url=https://iris.ed.gov/downloads/applications/P015A180134/P015A180134_GrantApplication.pdf |website=/iris.ed.gov |access-date=September 25, 2019 |pages=18–19 |date=2015}}
In 2017, Peluso received a National Science Foundation Geography and Spatial Sciences Program grant to study the impacts labor migration has on Indonesian land use policy and labor markets.{{cite web |title=Indonesian labor migration study awarded NSF grant |url=https://ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2017/10/indonesian-labor-migration-study-awarded-nsf-grant |website=ourenvironment.berkeley.edu |access-date=September 26, 2019 |date=October 23, 2017}} Two years later, it was announced that Peluso would become the new Chair of the Center for Southeast Asia Studies beginning in the 2020–21 academic year.{{cite web |title=Prof. Aihwa Ong takes over as CSEAS Chair |url=https://ieas.berkeley.edu/news/prof-aihwa-ong-takes-over-cseas-chair |website=ieas.berkeley.edu |access-date=September 13, 2019 |date=July 1, 2019}} She was also the recipient of the Al Moumin Award in Environmental Peacebuilding.{{cite web |title=Prof. Nancy Lee Peluso to receive environmental peacebuilding award |url=https://ieas.berkeley.edu/news/prof-nancy-lee-peluso-receive-environmental-peacebuilding-award |website=ieas.berkeley.edu |access-date=September 13, 2019 |date=July 19, 2019}}
Selected publications
The following is a list of selected publications:{{cite web |title=Peluso, Nancy Lee |url=http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n80099047/ |website=worldcat.org |access-date=September 26, 2019}}
- Rich Forests, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java (1992)
- Borneo in Transition: People, Forests, Conservation and Development (1996)
- Introducing community forestry: annotated listings of topics and readings (2000)
- Violent Environments (2001, with Michael Watts)
- New frontiers of land control (2013)
References
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