Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Simmons
Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Florida
Thursday, February 4, 2021
2:50-3:50 PM (Period 8)
Turlington Hall 3018 and Zoom, livestreamed on YouTube
University of Florida
All are welcome to attend.
Dr. Cynthia Simmons is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, at the University of Florida. She is a human geographer with a research and teaching program that falls within nature-society studies, investigating multi-scalar interactions between economics, politics, and environmental change at local, national and international scales. She employs a Political Ecology frame to examine these multi-scalar interactions and how they articulate in specific places. Methodologically, she employs a fusionist approach that integrates quantitative and qualitative methods with data and insight gained from field investigation, surveys, key informant interviews, and remotely sensed imagery. Her research has primarily focused on the Brazilian Amazon where she has studied agrarian reform, large-scale infrastructure development, indigenous resistance, and conservation policy.
For more information, email Dr. Tim Fik at fik@ufl.edu