Awardees – Marianne Schmink Dissertation Award

The Marianne Schmink Outstanding Dissertation Award was established in 2010 in recognition of Dr. Marianne Schmink for her significant and transformative contributions to graduate education, the Center for Latin American Studies and the TCD Program. Dr. Marianne Schmink was instrumental in establishing the early interdisciplinary research and training programs that evolved into the Tropical Conservation and Development (TCD) program in the 1980’s.  She directed TCD from 1988-2010, and over the years she worked with colleagues to raise significant grant and endowment funds to support fellowships, research grants, internships and other activities for UF students and faculty. To learn more about Marianne Schmink click here.

2023: Dr. Emily Pappo (SNRE, TCD): “Evaluating climate resilience of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica) agroecosystems

2022: Dr. Mahi Puri (WEC, TCD): “Prioritizing and identifying opportunities for carnivore conservation in human-dominated landscapes of India“.

2021: Dr. Maira Irigaray (Geography, TCD): Resistance, Global Justice and Protection of Indigenous Territories in the Amazon: The Ipereğ Ayũ Movement and the Munduruku Indigenous People”

2020: Dr. Dr. C. Andrea Baudoin Farah (SNRE, TCD): “Volver a hablar con la Gente del Agua”: Meanders of indigenous autonomy in the Isiboro Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS), Bolivia”

2019: Dr. Myrian Barboza (Anthropology, TCD): “Tiikuna cosmopolitical cartography: the gendered meaning and use of territories by Katukina indigenous people (Bia River, Brazilian Amazonia)”

2018: Dr. Paula Soares Pinheiro (SNRE, TCD) – Co-management of natural resources in the Lower Juruá Extractive Reserve, Central-West Brazilian Amazon” Special Seminar video

2017: Dr. Thaissa Sobreiro (SNRE, TCD) – Indigenous mobilization and multi-local livelihood strategies in the Middle Rio Negro, northwestern Brazilian Amazon” – Special Seminar video

2016: Dr. José Antonio Sierra- Huelz (SFRC, TCD) – Tourism and forest livelihoods: linking architecture with tropical forest management” – Special Seminar video

2015: Dr. Raissa Guerra (SNRE, TCD) – Feasibility of Payments for Environmental Services in the Amazon region: tools for an ex-ante assessment” – Special Seminar video

2014: Dr. Vanessa Mintzer (SNRE, TCD) –An Evolution of the Conservation of Amazon River Dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) in a Brazilian Protected Area

2013: Dr. Laura Kowler (SNRE, TCD) – Interpreting legitimacy through a multi-level governance lens: the case of environmental forums in Bolivia

2012: Christine Lucas (WEC, TCD) – Successional dynamics and seeding regeneration in Amazonian floodplain forests

2011: Simone Athayde (SNRE, TCD) – Weaving power” displacement, indigenous knowledge systems, and territorial control amongst three Kaiabi groups in the Brazilian Amazon

2010: Tracy Van Holt (SNRE, TCD) –The influences of landscape change on the nearshore ecosystem in southern Chile