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R. Creighton Peet

Adjunct Assistant Professor
Global Program Coordinator
Co-Director of Namibia Project Center
Director of Hong Kong Project Center

Office: Project Center, 2nd Floor
Phone: +1-508-831-6730
Fax: +1-508-831-5485
cpeet@wpi.edu

Educational Background

• Ph.D. & M.Phil, Anthropology (applied), Columbia University & Teachers College
• B.A., Anthropology, Harvard College, cum laude

Research & Teaching Interests

• 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.)

IQP Advising Interests

• Natural resource management
• Preservation of agricultural lands
• Effect of technology on social systems
• Technology & organizational behaviors
• International comparisons
• Social cost & social change
• Science & society studies
• Technological transfer
• Appropriate technology