Dr. Jonathan DeVore
Department for Social and Cultural Anthropology
Associate Professor
University of Cologne
Main Buildung, Albertus-Magnus Platz 1
Room 6.109
Short CV
2021-present
University of Cologne, Associate Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
2020-2021
University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Child and Family Studies
2018-2020
Miami University of Ohio, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology & Latin American, Latino/a and Caribbean Studies
2017-2018
University of Cologne, Senior Researcher, Global South Studies Center
2016-2018
University of Bonn, Lecturer, Department for the Anthropology of the Americas
2015-2016
Yale University, Postdoctoral Associate, Program in Agrarian Studies
2005-2014
University of Michigan, MA & PhD Student, Department of Anthropology
Research Focus
- Brazil
- Latin America
- Landless movements
- Land and property rights
- Dispossession
- Semiotics
- Racialization
- Social freedom
- Rural livelihoods
- Agroforestry
- Convivial conservation
- Distributive politics
- Cash transfers
- Financialization
- COVID-19
- Climate change
- Multispecies ethnography
- Human-environment interaction
- Political ecology
- Agrarian studies