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1 PETER TAYLOR KLEIN Box 1916, Maxcy Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI ; EDUCATION Brown University, Providence, RI 2008-present Ph.D. in Sociology, May 2014 Dissertation: Flooded with Meaning: Contested Development and Brazil s Belo Monte Dam. (Committee: Gianpaolo Baiocchi and Leah VanWey (co-chairs), Patrick Heller) Preliminary Exam Areas: Political Economy of Development and Globalization; Environmental Sociology (passed With Distinction ) Master of Arts in Sociology, May 2010 Master s Thesis: Securing Land Rights in the Brazilian Amazon: Selectivity into Land Title (Chair: Leah VanWey; Reader: J. Timmons Roberts) Drew University, Madison, NJ Bachelor of Arts in Behavioral Science, magna cum laude, May 2003 Drew International Seminar; Eritrea, Africa; Spring 2001 School for International Training; Pacific Island Studies; Samoa & Fiji; Spring 2002 AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION: Political Sociology, Environmental Sociology, Qualitative Methods, Inequality, Social Theory, Brazil, Globalization and Development, Natural Resource Management PUBLICATIONS Baiocchi, Gianpaolo, Elizabeth A. Bennett, Alissa Cordner, Peter Taylor Klein, Stephanie Savell. Forthcoming The Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life. Paradigm Publishers. (Authors contributed equally.) Klein, Peter Taylor. Forthcoming. Accessing Scarce Resources in the Brazilian Amazon: Voluntary Associations and Secure Land Title. Latin American Research Review. Elizabeth A. Bennett, Alissa Cordner, Peter Taylor Klein, Stephanie Savell, Gianpaolo Baiocchi. Forthcoming Disavowing Politics: Civic Engagement in an Era of Political Skepticism. American Journal of Sociology. (Authors contributed equally.) Cordner, Alissa, Peter T. Klein, Gianpaolo Baiocchi Co-Designing and Co-Teaching Graduate Qualitative Methods: An Innovative Ethnographic Workshop Model. Teaching Sociology 40(3), (Authors contributed equally.) EXTERNAL GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2012 US Student Fulbright Grant for 2013 Research in Brazil; $15,400 + Travel & Other Fees 2011 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant; National Science Foundation; $8,000

2 TEACHING 2012 Co-Instructor; Demografia Espacial: Teoria e Modelagem ; Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), São Paulo, Brazil; Designed and co-taught mini-course to graduate and advanced undergraduate students 2011 Special Lecturer; Global Studies 101: Introduction to Global Studies ; Providence College [full course development and teaching responsibility] Co-Instructor; Qualitative Research Methods Graduate Seminar; Brown University; Designed and co-taught seminar to graduate and advanced undergraduate students GRANTS, HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS 2013 Craig M. Cogut Dissertation Fellowship in Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Support for dissertation completion, January June, Santander TOP USA Massachusetts Exchange Program; Graduate Student Participant; Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) and Brown University 2013 Junior Research Collaborator; Instituto de Ciência Pública, Universide de Brasília 2011 Teaching and Research Exchange Award; Fund for the Support of Teaching and Research Extension; Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) and Brown University; Funding Teaching and Research in Brazil March 2012-May Tinker Field Research Grant; The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2011 Summer Research Grant; Watson Institute for International Studies Graduate Program in Development 2011 Research Travel Grant; Brown Graduate School 2010 Graduate Student International Travel Award; Brown University Office of International Affairs 2010 Feinberg Field Research Award; Department of Sociology 2010 Summer Research Grant; Watson Institute for International Studies Graduate Program in Development 2010 Tinker Field Research Grant; The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2010 Research Travel Grant; Brown Graduate School 2009 Research Travel Grant; Brown Graduate School 2009 Field Research Award; Department of Sociology 2009-Present Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences Fellow 2008-Present Graduate Program in Development Trainee INVITED PRESENTATIONS 2013 Invited Participant. Estratégias para a Implementação dos Investimentos em Infraestrutura no Território e suas Populações. Oficinas de Avaliação da Dimensão Estratégica do PPA Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão.

3 Brasília, Brazil. [Policy seminar to discuss implementation strategies for large infrastructure projects] 2013 Invited Speaker. Desenvolvimento em Conflito: Belo Monte e As Formas de Participação. Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). São Paulo, Brazil Invited Speaker. População e Ambiente na Amazônia: As Abordagens dos Estudos da Sociologia da Brown University e da Demografia da Unicamp. (with Julia Côrtes). Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA). Altamira, Pará, Brazil Invited Speaker. What is Sustainable Development, Anyway? Contestation over Brazil s Belo Monte Dam. Woodin Colloquium Series, Environmental Studies, Middlebury College, VT Invited Speaker. Environmental Change and Emerging Civil Society in the Brazilian Amazon. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, England Invited Speaker. Civic Imagination in Providence. Brown International Advanced Research Institutes. Providence, RI. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS 2013 Desenvolvimento e conflitos em espaços públicos: Belo Monte e os pescadores do Rio Xingu. XVI Congresso Brasileiro de Sociologia. Salvador, Bahia, Brazil Flooded with Meanings: Contested Development and Brazil s Belo Monte Dam. American Sociological Association. New York, NY Encountering Inequality in American Civic Life. American Sociological Association. New York, NY Brazil s Belo Monte Dam: An Empirical Example of a Longstanding Theoretical Debate. Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York, NY Democracy in the Selective Presence of the Brazilian State. Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, CA Civic Innovators: Business Ideology in Civic Engagement. Eastern Sociological Society. New York Accessing Scarce Resources in the Brazilian Amazon: Unions and Secure Land Title. American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, NV Conflict and Cooperation: Environmental Decision-Making in the Local Implementation of Agenda 21." Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences. Burlington, VT Deepening Democracy & Sustaining Development: Hydroelectric Dams in the Brazilian Amazon. Graduate Program in Development-Watson Institute for International Studies.

4 Providence, RI Dams in the Amazon: Issues of Development, Democracy, and Displacement. (with Heather Randell) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Brown University. Providence, RI This is not political : Ethnographies of Political Life Civic Imagination in Providence. (with Stephanie Savell) Eastern Sociological Society. Philadelphia, PA Discussant. Formal and Informal Politics in Brazil. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Brown University. Providence, RI When Global Meets Local: Civil Society and Environmental Governance in the Brazilian Amazon. Watson Institute for International Studies Graduate Program in Development, Brown University, Providence, RI Civil Society, Local Governance, and Environmental Change in the Brazilian Amazon. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Brown University, Providence, RI Agricultural Land Use Changes and Migration Patterns in the Brazilian Amazon. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Institute. Brown University, Providence, RI. COMMUNITY OUTREACH 2008-Present Consultant, mentor; Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence; Providence, RI. OTHER HIGHER EDUCATION EXPERIENCE 2005 Program Assistant; School for International Training study abroad program; Apia, Samoa: Pacific Island Studies & Area Hall Director & Director of Multicultural Center; Beloit College; Beloit, Wisconsin PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Graduate Student Representative; Department of Sociology; Brown University Professional Development Committee member; Department of Sociology; Brown University PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Sociological Association Latin American Studies Association Sociedade Brasileira de Sociologia Society for the Study of Social Problems

5 REFERENCES Dr. Gianpaolo Biaocchi; Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology; New York University; Dr. Patrick Heller; Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Department of Sociology and Watson Institute for International Studies; Brown University; Dr. Keith Morton; Professor of Public and Community Service Studies, Associate Director of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service; Providence College; Dr. Leah VanWey; Associate Professor of Sociology, Core Faculty of the Environmental Change Initiative, Associate Director of the Population Studies and Training Center; Brown University;