Overview

Leah VanWey currently serves as Dean of the Faculty. By training, she is a social demographer and environmental social scientist. Her most recent research focused on household responses to a payment for reforestation program in the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, together with the social and environmental impacts of the program. She is committed to interdisciplinary research, and has worked with anthropologists, geographers, demographers, sociologists, urban planners, historians, geoscientists and ecologists at various times. On the administrative side, Professor VanWey has previously served as Senior Deputy Director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Associate Director of the Population Studies and Training Center, Associate Provost for Academic Space, and Dean of the School of Professional Studies. Leah received her PhD from the University of North Carolina, where she was a trainee in the Carolina Population Center, and has previously taught at Indiana University.

Brown Affiliations

• Institute at Brown for Environment and Society
• Sociology

Research Areas

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