Affiliate Faculty
| Affiliate Department | Name | Specializations | Regions of Expertise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture Education and Communication, Center for Landscape Conservation and Ecology | Paul Monaghan | Natural resource protection and landscape management | Latin America, Haiti, United States |
| Laura Warner | Program evaluation, extension/professional development, social marketing, behavior change, and landscape/horticultural conservation practices | Extension, United States | |
| Agriculture Education and Communication | Sebastian Galindo | Collaborative project evaluation | Latin America, United States |
| IFAS Global, Interim Director / Agronomy | Rosalie Koenig | Agriculture, farming and cropping systems | United States |
| IFAS Global, Associate Director | Kathleen Colverson | Gender, extension systems, agricultural value chains | East Africa, South-East Asia, Latin America |
| Anthropology | Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo | Historical ecology, archaeology | Colombia, Peru, Brazil |
| John Richard Stepp | Environmental anthropology, ethnoecology, conservation, GIS, medical anthropology, research methods, visual anthropology | Mexico and Central America, China, Southeast Asia, Southern Africa | |
| Economics | Hector Hugo Sandoval Gutierrez | Social interactions, applied microeconomics, education, poverty and development economics, and program evaluation | Mexico, Florida |
| Biology / School of Forest Resources and Conservation | Claudia Romero | Tropical forest policy and economics, conservation and development tradeoffs, impact evaluation, REDD+, PES | Central and South America, Southern Africa, Indonesia |
| Center for Latin American Studies Anthropology | Catherine Tucker | Environmental governance, community-based resource management, conservation, sustainability, transdisciplinary research, value chains & markets, traditional and indigenous knowledge, belief systems, mountain social-ecological systems, commons | Latin America |
| Center for Latin American Studies Sociology, Criminology & Law | Rebecca Hanson | Crime and citizen security, political sociology, human rights, global studies, urban sociology, social movements and citizen participation, gender, Latin America, qualitative methods | Venezuela, Colombia |
| Center for African Studies | Agnes Leslie | African politics focus on women and politics, social movements, human rights, policy and development, regional Integration in southern Africa, African Union, China and Africa relations | Zambia, Botswana, South Africa, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Rwanda |
| Center for African Studies Geography | Abraham Goldman | Food and agriculture in Africa, resources and conservation, geography of world agriculture, human geography, environmental impact of pesticides, and foreign policy issues linking developed and developing countries | Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda |
| Center for African Studies Anthropology | Marit Østebø | Cultural anthropology, development studies, global health | Ethiopia |
| Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), Academic Director and James W. Walter Eminent Scholar Chair | Michael M. Morris | Entrepreneurship, economic development, small business consulting, marketing, emergence | South Africa |
| Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI), Director | Jamie Kraft | Entrepreneurship, experiential learning | United States |
| Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) | Kristin E. Joys | Social entrepreneurship, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, impact investing, experiential learning, civic engagement, gender and entrepreneurship, youth development | United States |
| Design, Construction and Planning; Department of Urban and Regional Planning | Christopher Silver | Urban development and planning in megacities, sustainable community development, urban water management | Indonesia |
| Design, Construction and Planning; Director, UF Green Building Learning Collaborative | Bahar Armaghani | Sustainability and the built environment, green building codes, LEED, project management | United States, Iraq, Jordan, Republic of Georgia |
| UF International Center (UFIC), Dean / Political Science | Leonardo A. Villalón | African politics, Islam and politics, democratization | Senegal, Mali, Niger, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Chad |
| UFIC, Director of Program Development | Sandra Russo | Animal science, agronomy, development, gender, environment, tropical research, small ruminants, women’s studies, ecofeminism, agroforestry | MENA regions, and multiple other regions of Africa |
| UFIC, Office for Global Research Engagement / Livestock Systems Innovation Laboratory | Rebecca Williams | Gender and development, youth violence, climate change, rural livelihoods, feminism and masculinities, social justice, human rights, sustainable development, capacity development, facilitation | Latin America, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nepal |
| Family, Youth & Community Sciences | Muthusami Kumaran | Fundraising for nonprofit organizations, risk management in NPOs, Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs), community development, program planning and evaluation | India, South Korea, The Bahamas, US |
| David Diehl | Youth development and public policy, planning and evaluation | Extension, Southeast United States | |
| Mickie Swisher | Research design and methods, theory of community structure and development, sustainable and organic food systems, sustainable agriculture research and education | US, Central and East Africa, Central America, Haiti | |
| Randy Cantrell | Innovation, community development and leadership, housing and decision-making | US, West Africa | |
| Former University of Florida International Center (UFIC), Dean, Retired | David Sammons | Agronomy, crop breeding, agricultural / natural resources research administration, curriculum oversight | Global; East Africa, Middle East, Southeast Asia |
| Landscape Architecture, Chair | Maria C. "Tina" Gurucharri | Low impact development, nature and culture based tourism, urban design | Costa Rica, Honduras, Belize, Guatemala |
| Levin School of Law; Director, Conservation Clinic, Center for Governmental Responsibility | Thomas T. Ankerson | Comparative law (Latin America, conservation real estate law, evironmental law, international tax, land use, sustainability | Costa Rica, Central America |
| School of Forest Resources and Conservation; Amazon Conservation Leadership Initiative, Coordinator | Robert Buschbacher | Tropical forestry | Amazon-Andes region |
| School of Forest Resources and Conservation | Martha C. Monroe | Environmental education and extension | United States |
| Taylor Stein | Ecotourism | Costa Rica, Central America | |
| Sociology | Christine Overdevest | Environmental and natural resource, and economic sociology | Latin America, United States |
| Stephen Perz | Demography, environmental sociology, sociology of development | Brazil | |
| Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management; Director, Friedheim Tourism Institute | Brijesh Thapa | Park management, heritage tourism, ecotourism | Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa |
| Tourism, Recreation & Sport Management; Spatial Ecology and Conservation Lab | Angélica Almeyda Zambrano | Ecotourism as a development and conservation strategy, sustainable tourism and land use dynamics, sustainability science, land use and land cover change | Latin America, Peru, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica |
| Tropical Conservation and Development | Bette Loiselle | Tropical ecology and conservation, seed dispersal mutualisms, ecological niche modeling and applications of Geographic Information Systems technology for biodiversity research and conservation | Ecuador, Costa Rica, Brazil |
| Wildlife Ecology & Conservation, Latin American Studies | Emilio Bruna | Habitat fragmentation, Anthropogenic landscape alterations, Science policy in Latin America | South America |
| Environmental Engineering Sciences, Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and Environment | Timothy Townsend | Solid waste management | Latin America, Caribbean, Asia |
| Soil and Water Sciences | James Jawitz | Water resource sustainability | Florida, United States |