Andrew Mathews

Andrew Mathews graduated with a joint Ph.D. from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies/Department of Anthropology in 2004. He has now taken up a position as assistant professor in the department of Sociology & Anthropology at Florida International University in Miami, where he is involved in setting up an interdisciplinary environmental anthropology graduate program. Andrew’s research focuses on the culture of forestry and conservation institutions in Mexico, from state bureaucracies, to NGO’s, to forest communities in the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca. His work also covers environmental history and the process of community forest management. Andrew is committed to integrating natural and social science approaches to environmental problem solving: before studying anthropology he worked for the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests and for a forest genetics project in Honduras. In addition to his Ph.D. he has a bachelor's degree in Physics and Philosophy from Leeds University (England) and a Master's degree in Forestry and Forest Policy from the Oxford Forestry Institute at Oxford University.