PETER TAYLOR KLEIN
Box 1916, Maxcy Hall, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912
401-626-5802; [email protected]
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; [email protected]; 401-441-8840
Dr. Patrick Heller; Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Department of Sociology
and Watson Institute for International Studies; Brown University;
[email protected]; 401-863-7465
Dr. Keith Morton; Professor of Public and Community Service Studies, Associate Director of the
Feinstein Institute for Public Service; Providence College; [email protected];
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; [email protected]; 401-863-3184