Pamela McElwee is trained as an interdisciplinary environmental scientist, and her work focuses on vulnerability of households and communities to global environmental change, including biodiversity loss, deforestation, and climate change. Her first book, Forests are Gold: Trees, People and Environmental Rule in Vietnam won the EUROSEAS prize for best social science book on Southeast Asia. She is currently working on her second book about the environmental legacies of the Vietnam War.

Experience

  • 2011–present
    Professor, Rutgers University

Education

  • 2003 
    Yale University, Ph.D. in Forestry & Environmental Studies and Anthropology

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  • Research supervision