Resident Program Fellows
2011–2012

The Agrarian Studies Program appoints program fellows annually who are in residence for the year, present a paper, and attend the colloquia. This year the Program has four Fellows whose diversity reflects the breadth of the program, and a Visiting Fellow who has already made an important contribution to agrarian studies. We also encourage applications from knowledgeable “activists” and “public intellectuals” whose work on rural life transcends the academy. Fellows are selected competitively.

Roseann Cohen ...

... completed her PhD in Environmental Studies (Latin American & Latino Studies) at UC/Santa Cruz in 2010 and is currently a Research Associate in Anthropology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. While as Yale, she plans to turn her dissertation into a book entitled Uprooted Ecologies: Rebuilding Relations between People, Plants, and Land in Time of Ongoing Dispossession in Cartagena, Colombia.

Dario Gaggio ...

... is an Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan. He directed the Center for European Studies at the European Union Center until this past year. Gaggio received his PhD in History from Northwestern University in 1999. During his year here at the Program in Agrarian Studies he will finish his book, Beyond the Tuscan Sun: Agriculture and the Landscape Beautiful from Fascist Ruralism to Rural Tourism.

Arupjyoti Saikia ...

... will use his time at the Program in Agrarian Studies to complete a manuscript on the agrarian and ecological history of Assam, the northeastern state of India. He is currently an Associate Professor in History at Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati. Dr. Saikia received his PhD in history from University of Delhi in 2002

Ling Zhang ...

... is currently working on her book project entitled China's Sorrow or the Yellow River's Sorrow? An Environmental History of the Yellow River. She completed her PhD in Chinese Studies from University of Cambridge in 2008, and is an assistant professor of History at Boston College.