Catherine Corson
Catherine Corson is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Her research focuses on neoliberal conservation, international environmental governance, institutional ethnography, and political ecology. She received her PhD in 2008 from the University of California at Berkeley, where she used the U.S. Agency for International Development’s biodiversity programme in Madagascar as a lens into how state and non-state actors negotiate environmental foreign aid across local, national and international scales. Currently, she is collaborating with an international group of scholars to study the co-production of conservation knowledge and relations of environmental governance at international environmental conferences. She has master’s degrees from Cornell University and University College London and has conducted ethnographic field research in Zimbabwe, Madagascar and the United States on rural women’s microenterprises and local peoples’ resource access in protected areas. Prior to her academic career, she worked for ten years as environment and development policy analyst and consultant.
