Education

Yale University, New Haven, CT
Ph.D., Anthropology and Environmental Studies (Joint Degree)
2010 (expected)

Dissertation: Garden-Variety Histories. Social and Environmental Change in the Aftermath of War: The Jarai Highland Ethnic Minority of Cambodia

Committee chairs: Michael R. Dove and Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan

Yale University, New Haven, CT
M.Phil., Anthropology and Environmental Studies
2004

Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
MESc., Master of Environmental Science, Social ecology concentration
2001

Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Courses in Spanish language and Latin American literature
SUNY Plattsburgh exchange program
1992

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Bachelor of Arts, English language and literature major
1990

In this summary of my education, it is necessary to note a debt of gratitude to a mentor and friend, the late Cecil Y. Lang. Cecil not only inspired me (and my friends), he received us at all hours of the day and night in his home, where his wife Violette served us chocolate pecan pie.