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Faculty News and Publications continued from page 8.
Road-building in the Amazon: Socioeconomic
and Biophysical Explanations (with M. Caldas,
E. Arima, and R. Walker). Development and
C'li,, .. 38(3) 2007: 529-551; Theorizing Land
Cover and Land Use Change: The Peasant
Economy of Amazonian Deforestation (with
M. Caldas, R. Walker, E. Arima, S. Aldrich, and
C. Simmons). Annals of the American
Association of Geographers, 97(1) 2007: 86-110;
Road Investments, Spatial Spillovers, and
Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon (with A.
Pfaff, J. Robalino, R. Walker, S. Aldrich, M.
Caldas, E. Reis, C. Bohrer, E. Arima, W.
Laurance and K. Kirby). Journal .I i ... ....i
Science, 47(1) 2007: 109-123.

UStephen Powell (Law) presented a paper in
April 2007 on "MERCOSUR Trade and
Business Opportunities and Needs" at the Legal
and Policy Issues in the Americas Conference
in Gainesville. He also presented a paper on the
"Lessons of NAFTA Chapter 19's Unique
Dispute Settlement System" at the May 2007
Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero
Conference in Buenos Aires on Commercial
Defense, Safeguard, and Escape Clause
Measures. He delivered a version of the NAFTA
Chapter 19 paper at the Annual Congress of
L'Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats
in Toronto in August 2007.


*Maria Rogal (Art and Art History) presented
a paper on "Beyond the Border: Experiential
Fieldwork and Ethnography Enriches the
Design Practice" at the Design/Culture:
Icograda World Design Congress in Havana in
October 2007.

E Helen Safa I .il.i.. I...l.._- i S.) was invited
to the 50th anniversary of FLACSO-Ecuador in
October 2007 to participate in a dialogue with
Maxine Molyneux on Gender and Citizenship.
She delivered a paper in Spanish entitled,
"Equality in Difference: Afrodescendent and
Indigenous Women's Struggle for Citizenship
in Latin America." Publications: Racial and
Gender Inequality in Latin America:
Afro-Descendent Women Respond. Feminist
Africa: Diaspora Voices, 7 2006: 49-66;
Globalizaci6n, desigualdad e incremento de los
hogares encabezados por mujeres. In M.L.
Femeninas, ed., Perfiles del Feminismo
Iberoamericano Vol. 3. Buenos Aires: Catilogos,
2007.

E Marianne Schmink (i .' .1i.1...l...1. )
Cows versus Rubber: Changing Livelihoods
among Amazonian Extractivists (with D.
Salisbury). Geoform, 38 (6) 2007: 1233-1249.

E Anita Spring ( i.,l......! .1.._- was selected
President-elect of Culture and Agriculture, a


section of the American Anthropological
Association (AAA). She presented a paper
entitled, "Ester Boserup's WID Paradigm Based
on Agriculture: Can We Revise it Now?" at the
annual meeting of the AAA in Washington in
December 2007.


Neill W. Macaulay, Jr.
Professor Emeritus of Latin American History,
passed away on October 28, 2007. Born in
Columbia, SC in 1935, he earned his B.A. at
The Citadel (1956) and then served two years
with the U.S. Army in Korea. In 1958, he
joined the 26 of July Revolutionary Movement
of Fidel Castro in Cuba. Disillusioned by the
turn of the revolution, he returned to the U.S.
in 1960 and earned a M.A. at the University of
South Carolina (1962) and a Ph.D from the
University of Texas (1964). He began teaching
Latin American history at the University of
Florida in 1964, retiring in 1986. He was the
author of The Sandino. ill., (1967), A Rebel in
Cuba (1970), The Prestes Column (1974), and
Dom Pedro (1986). He co-authored (with
David Bushnell) The Emergence of Latin
America in the Nineteenth Century (1988).


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Florida Museum of Natural History
Food and Resource Economics
Latin American Business Environment Program
Latin American Studies
MA in Latin American Studies
Partnership in Global Learning
Romance Languages and Literatures
School of Forest Resources & Conservation
School of Natural Resources & Environment
UF Foundation
Wildlife Ecology & Conservation


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