From Yardstick to Gyroscope -
Interdisciplinary Methods for the Long-Term Study of Social-Ecological Systems

Laura Ogden
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology/Anthropology
Florida International University
University Park Campus
Miami, Florida 33199

Telephone: 305.348.6663
Email: ogdenl@fiu.edu
Professor website: http://www.fiu.edu/~ogdenl/

Associations
Executive Committee. Florida Coastal Everglades, NSF Long-Term Ecological Research Site.
Certificate Coordinator. Graduate Certificate in Sustainable Communities, Florida International University.

Educational Background
Ph.D. in Anthropology, University of Florida (2002)
Dissertation: Gladesmen of the Florida Everglades: A Landscape Poetics
M. A. in Anthropology and Film Studies, University of Florida (1994)
B. A. in Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Degree Awarded with Distinction (1990)

Academic Field

Cultural Anthropology: specializations in Environmental Anthropology, Landscape Theory, History and Theory of Ethnography

Courses Taught
Graduate Seminar, Advanced Anthropological Theory
Graduate Seminar, Representing Ethnography
Graduate Seminar, American Culture and Society
Anthropological Theory
Everglades Cultural History
Introduction to Anthropology
Environmental Anthropology

Representative Publications
Simmons, Glen and Laura Ogden. 1998. Gladesmen: Gator Hunters, Moonshiners and Skiffers. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.

Ogden, Laura (Contributing Author). 1996. Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations. Edited by Veronica E. Velarde Tiller. Albuquerque: BowArrow Publishing Company.

Ogden, Laura. 2006. “Public Participation in Environmental Decision-Making: A Case Study in the Florida Everglades” Cahiers d’ Economie et Sociologie Rurales, 3(80):53-74.

Dustin, Daniel, McAvoy, Leo, Ogden, Laura. 2005. Land as Legacy. Parks and Recreation, 40 (3).

Safa, Helen and Laura Ogden. 1992. Review of K. Lynn Stoner’s Microfilm Series on Cuban Feminist Documents, Journal of American History, June.


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