Carol Colfer
Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University and the Center for International Forestry Research
I am an anthropologist whose work in Southeast Asia began in 1979. Most of my work has been with people living in or near forests as part of my position as a Principal Scientist at the Center for International Forestry Resarch, in Bogor (where I lived from 1996-2009). My research has been of a human ecological nature, with long-term involvement in East and West Kalimantan, and shorter involvements in South and Southeast Sulawesi. I have also worked for three years in West Sumatra; and supervised work over a several year period in Jambi, Sumatra. My research has variably focused on gender, swidden agriculture, health of people, governance and management of forests, criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, landscape management, and adaptive collaborative management. My long-term ethnographic research has been in Woodburn, OR and Quilcene, WA in the US, Iran and Oman in the Middle East (I also grew up in Turkey), Kalimantan and Sumatra in Indonesia. Since 1996, I have also routinely done comparative research looking at Africa, South America and Asia. Most recently I have written and edited books on Masculinities in Forests, and adaptive collaborative management.
