R. Creighton Peet
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Global Program Coordinator
Director of Hong Kong Project Center
Co-Director of Namibia Project Center
Project Center Building, 2nd floor
508-831-6730 (voice)
508-831-5485 (fax)
cpeet@wpi.edu
Related Information
- See Faculty Directory for research & advising interests
Areas of Research Interest
- Natural resources management, common pool resources management (focus on water), sustainability, participatory approaches to research and development, cross-cultural understanding and conflict resolution;
- Field experience: Nepal (9 years); Taiwan (2+ years); Jamaica (2 mos); Grand Cayman Island (2 mos); Georgia (1 mo), Azerbaijan (6 mos), Armenia (1 wk), Tajikistan (4 mos), Bosnia & Herzegovina (13 mos.); Costa Rica (3 mos.); Hong Kong (6+ mos.); Namibia (3 mos.); Australia (2 mos.), Puerto Rico (2 mos.)
Education
- Ph.D. & M.Phil, Anthropology (applied), Columbia University & Teachers College
- B.A., Anthropology, Harvard College, cum laude
Professional Society Memberships
- American Anthropological Association
- Society for Applied Anthropology
- International Association for Society and Natural Resources
- Association for Asian Studies
- Himalayan Studies Association
Grants and Awards
- Rockefeller Foundation Postdoctoral Social Science Research Fellow in Agriculture at The Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center (AVRDC), Taiwan, Republic of China., 1980-82
- Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University, New York, Grant-in-Aid, 1971
- Research Institute for the Study of Man (RISM), New York, sponsored summer field research, Jamaica, 1970
- National Science Foundation (NSF), Summer Anthropological Field Research Grant, Grand Cayman Island, British West Indies, 1965
Principal Publications and Presentations
- 1978 Migration, Culture and Community: A Case Study From Rural Nepal. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Columbia University, New York, NY
- 1978 An Anthropological Approach to the Study of the Economic Value of Children in Java and Nepal. Current Anthropology 19(2): 293-306 (with Moni Nag & Benjamin N.F. White).
- 1984 Social Anthropology. Research on Group Vegetable Farming. 1982 Progress Report. Asian Vegetable Research and Development Center. Shanhua, Taiwan: AVRDC.
- 1985 Sweet Potato Production and Utilization in Asia and the Pacific (with Steve S.M. Lin, Der-Ming Chen & Hsiao-Feng Lo). In John C. Bouwkamp (ed.), Sweet Potato Products: A Natural Resource for the Tropics. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press.
- 2003 Water Management in Africa: some political, economic and sociocultural factors. Presented at a session of the US-Africa Summit Conference, sponsored by the Corporate Council on Africa, Washington, DC.
- 2004 Proceedings of conference held at WPI on Water Management Challenges and Solutions. Wrote Introduction and Summary & Conclusions sections and edited the whole document. Published at conference web site. WPI, Worcester, MA.
- 2004 Progress in Administrative Capacity Building at the Polytechnic of Namibia. Presentation made at annual conference sponsored by the Association Liaison Office for University Cooperation in Development, Washington, DC.
- 2005 IWRM and Basin Management in a Developing African Country: A Case Study from Namibia. Presented at US-Africa Summit conference sponsored by the Corporate Council on Africa, Baltimore, MD.
- 2006 Testing Integrated Water Resources Management in Namibia: The Case of the Kuiseb River Basin. Poster presented at International Symposium for Society and Natural Resources conference, Vancouver, British Columbia.
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