Our researchers
ISS staff
Murat Arsel, Associate Professor of Environment and Sustainable Development - Research group coordinator
Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Professor of Rural Development Studies
Andrew Fischer, Associate Professor in Development Studies
Julien-François Gerber, Assistant Professor of Environment and Development
Wendy Harcourt, Professor of Gender, Diversity and Sustainable Development
Roy Huijsmans, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Children and Youth Studies
Auma Okwany, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Social Policy
Mindi Leigh Schneider, Assistant Professor in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies
Max Spoor, Professor of Development Studies
Oane Visser, Assistant Professor of Rural Development Studies
Affiliated Staff
Harriett Friedmann, Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto, Canada
Cristóbal Kay, Emeritus Professor Development Studies
Ashwani Saith, Emeritus Professor Rural Economics
Ben White, Emeritus Professor Rural Sociology
Marc Wuyts, Emeritus Professor Quantitative Applied Economics
PhD researchers
| Ana Lucia Badillo | |
| Emma Lynn Cantal | Convergence amidst diversity: The political economy of residualist models of social protection in Cambodia and the Philippines |
| Benedict Yeyugsah | |
| Alberto Alonso-Fradejas | Political economy of agrarian change and political dynamics of land resource control |
| Daniela Andrade | Brazilian Investments in Mozambique |
| Duygu Avci | Politics of Resistance against Mining: A Comparative Study of Conflicts in Ecuador and Turkey |
| Zoe Brent | Land Access Mechanisms in the Global North |
| Natacha Bruna | |
| Nguyet Bang Bao | |
| K.S. Dede | |
| C. Fameree | Collective Action Revisited in Cases of Land Grabs in the Peruvian Jungle: Reactions from Below, Transparency and the Role of the State |
| Consuelo Fernandez-Salvador | Negotiating Identity: A Study on Ethnic Identity in the Context of Development and Mining Exploitation in the Shuar Territory, in the Amazon Region of Ecuador |
| A.Y. Gyapong | |
| Eric Gutierrez | Criminals without borders: agrarian change and interdependency in opium and coca commodity chains |
| S. Kasahara | The Flying Geese Paradigm: A Critical Study of its Application to East Asian Regional Development |
| H. Lai | |
| Corrine Lamain | |
| Elyse Mills | |
| Cevahir Ozguler | Gendered Experiences in Environmental Movements: The Case Study of Bergama Movement in Turkey |
| Clara Mi Young Park | Land Enclosures, Gender and Trajectories of Agrarian Change - The Gender Impacts of Corporate Land Deals on Land Rights, Labour and Income Generating Opportunities |
| Ben Radley | The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on National Processes of Accumulation and Development: Natural Resources in the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Martha Jane Robbins | The Politics of Food Sovereignty |
| A. Shah | A Comparative Perspective on Land Conflict: Theorizing the Variable Political Character of Resistance to Land Acquisition in India |
| Christina Schiavoni | Competing Sovereignties in the Political Construction of Food Sovereignty |
| Y. Sekine | |
| Anne Siebert | |
| Angelica Maria Ocampo Talero | |
| Fasil Taye | Institutional Arrangement of Child Labour/Work in the Informal Weaving Sector in Addis Abeba |
| L. Thiemann | |
| S.F. Tramel | |
| R. Thuon | |
| X. Yunan | Chinese Land Grabbing in Southeast Asia |