PETER TAYLOR KLEIN Box 1916, Maxcy Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 401-626-5802; kleinp@gmail.com 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 1999-2003 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 2013. 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 2013. Disavowing Politics: Civic Engagement in an Era of Political Skepticism. American Journal of Sociology. (Authors contributed equally.) Cordner, Alissa, Peter T. Klein, Gianpaolo Baiocchi. 2012. Co-Designing and Co-Teaching Graduate Qualitative Methods: An Innovative Ethnographic Workshop Model. Teaching Sociology 40(3), 215-226. (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
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] 2009-2010 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, 2014 2013 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 2012 2011 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 2012-2015. Ministério do Planejamento, Orçamento e Gestão.
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. 2012 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. 2012 Invited Speaker. What is Sustainable Development, Anyway? Contestation over Brazil s Belo Monte Dam. Woodin Colloquium Series, Environmental Studies, Middlebury College, VT. 2010 Invited Speaker. Environmental Change and Emerging Civil Society in the Brazilian Amazon. Institute of Development Studies, Brighton, England. 2010 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. 2013 Flooded with Meanings: Contested Development and Brazil s Belo Monte Dam. American Sociological Association. New York, NY. 2013 Encountering Inequality in American Civic Life. American Sociological Association. New York, NY. 2013 Brazil s Belo Monte Dam: An Empirical Example of a Longstanding Theoretical Debate. Society for the Study of Social Problems. New York, NY. 2012 Democracy in the Selective Presence of the Brazilian State. Latin American Studies Association. San Francisco, CA. 2012 Civic Innovators: Business Ideology in Civic Engagement. Eastern Sociological Society. New York. 2011 Accessing Scarce Resources in the Brazilian Amazon: Unions and Secure Land Title. American Sociological Association. Las Vegas, NV. 2011 Conflict and Cooperation: Environmental Decision-Making in the Local Implementation of Agenda 21." Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences. Burlington, VT. 2011 Deepening Democracy & Sustaining Development: Hydroelectric Dams in the Brazilian Amazon. Graduate Program in Development-Watson Institute for International Studies.
Providence, RI. 2011 Dams in the Amazon: Issues of Development, Democracy, and Displacement. (with Heather Randell) Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Brown University. Providence, RI. 2011 This is not political : Ethnographies of Political Life Civic Imagination in Providence. (with Stephanie Savell) Eastern Sociological Society. Philadelphia, PA. 2011 Discussant. Formal and Informal Politics in Brazil. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Brown University. Providence, RI. 2010 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. 2010 Civil Society, Local Governance, and Environmental Change in the Brazilian Amazon. Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Brown University, Providence, RI. 2009 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 2006-2008 & 2003-2005 Area Hall Director & Director of Multicultural Center; Beloit College; Beloit, Wisconsin PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2010-2011 Graduate Student Representative; Department of Sociology; Brown University 2009-2010 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
REFERENCES Dr. Gianpaolo Biaocchi; Associate Professor of Individualized Studies and Sociology; New York University; gb97@nyu.edu; 401-441-8840 Dr. Patrick Heller; Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Department of Sociology and Watson Institute for International Studies; Brown University; patrick_heller@brown.edu; 401-863-7465 Dr. Keith Morton; Professor of Public and Community Service Studies, Associate Director of the Feinstein Institute for Public Service; Providence College; kmorton@providence.edu; 401-865-1204 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; leah_vanwey@brown.edu; 401-863-3184