LEAH VANWEY

Professor VanWey studies the dynamics of frontier settlement in the Brazilian Amazon, and the sharing of time, money and other essential support between family members who don't live together. She asks how we can simultaneously protect the Amazon's precious environmental resources while promoting equitable social and economic development. Part of the answer there and elsewhere lies in mobilizing the strong webs of support that have always helped families survive and improve their lives.

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Biography

Leah VanWey is a social demographer trained at the University of North Carolina Carolina Population Center. She started her career at Indiana University - Bloomington and moved to Brown in 2008. She is committed to interdisciplinary research, and has worked with anthropologists, geographers, demographers, sociologists, urban planners, historians, and ecologists at various times. At Brown, Professor VanWey is affiliated with the Environmental Change Initiative, the Population Studies and Training Center, and the Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences Initiative.

Curricum Vitae

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LEAH VANWEY
Associate Professor of Sociology
Sociology
Phone: +1 401 863 3184
E-mail: Leah_Vanwey@brown.edu

Leah Vanwey's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Leah_Vanwey

Brown collaborators:

Collaborators at other institutions:
Alvaro D'Antona (University of Campinas, Brazil)
Alisson Barbieri (CEDEPLAR/UFMG, Brazil)
Roberto do Carmo (NEPO/UNICAMP, Brazil)
Gillian Galford (Columbia University)
Emilio Moran (Indiana University)
Cheryl Palm (Columbia University)
Robert Walker (Michigan State University)
Eugenio Arima (Hobart and William Smith)

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