Degrees
Ph.D., M.A. Cornell University, B.A., Binghamton University
About
Dr. Carpenter’s teaching and research interests focus on the social science of conservation and sustainable development, the social science of the global economy, the invisibility of implementation in conservation and development projects, the impacts of conservation and development on third-world agriculture, and the theories that underlie this social science. She spent four years in Indonesia in the early 1980s engaged in household and community-level urban research on rituals and social networks. She then spent four years in Pakistan in the late 1980s working as a development consultant, primarily on social forestry issues, for USAID, the World Bank, and the Asia Foundation, among others. She has held teaching positions at Syracuse University, the University of Hawaii, and Hawaii-Pacific University, and a research position at the East-West Center. She is a fellow of Grace Hopper College.
