Peter Brosius, associate professor of anthropology, received the first Lourdes Arizpe Award from the American Anthropological Association for his work on conservation communities.
The award honors individual anthropologists, teams or organizations that have made outstanding contributions in the application of anthropology to environmental issues and discourse. Brosius has focused his research and teaching on showing how and why anthropological ideas might make a difference in the search for forms of conservation that are effective, just and equitable.
The award was named in honor of Lourdes Arizpe, an anthropologist at the National University of Mexico who specializes in culture, migration, rural development and global environmental change in fieldwork research and international academic and policy activities.
