Agroforestry Expert to Lecture at OSU

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Dianne Rocheleau, a geography professor at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., has worked for more than 35 years in rural forest and farming communities in the United States, Kenya, Dominican Republic and Mexico.

On Monday, March 1, she visits the Oklahoma State University campus to talk about “Gender, Culture, Nature and Networks: Moral and Political Ecologies of Indigenous, Feminist, Campesino and Conservation Politics.” The lecture starts at 3:30 p.m. in Room 035 in Murray Hall and is free and open to the public.

Rocheleau says she strives to understand land use, landscape and ecological change through a lens of social justice, political power and cultural autonomy.

At Clark University, Rocheleau also directs the global environmental studies major and has served as director of women’s and gender studies. She is affiliated with programs in environmental science, and international development and social change, as well as community development and planning.

She has conducted research with farmers in Kenya as a senior scientist for the International Council for Research in Agroforestry. She also has served as a program officer in rural poverty and resources for the Ford Foundation, which supports innovative research and practice.

The lecture is funded by the Social Science Seminar Series in the OSU College of Arts & Sciences and is hosted by the OSU Department of Geography and the OSU Gender and Women’s Studies program. To learn more, phone (405) 744-9178 or e-mail rebecca.sheehan@okstate.edu