Scott Freeman Assistant Professor SIS | EDH | Environment, Development & Health
- Degrees
- PhD Anthropology, Columbia University
EdM, Harvard University - Languages Spoken
- Spanish, Haitian Creole
- Bio
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Dr. Scott Freeman is an anthropologist whose work is at the intersection of the anthropology of the environment, critical development studies, and the anthropology of labor in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and to a lesser extent, Costa Rica. He conducts ethnographic research with agriculturalists and NGO workers in both countries. His work is broadly concerned with the bureaucracies of international aid projects, and how bureaucratic and financial procedures in international aid undermine aid and conservation interventions. In Haiti, his research has covered the vetiver essential oil industry and soil conservation. He is also interested in extractive industries, and understanding reciprocal agricultural labor practices as forms of counter plantation practice. In Costa Rica he has taught methods courses in political ecology focused on the negative environmental and economic impacts of the pineapple industry.
Currently, he is collaborating with grassroots groups in northern Haiti on issues of displacement, remedy, and land security. Following the displacement of more than 400 families due to an aid-financed factory, he has been working with legal advocates and conducting research to monitor the implementation and effects of remedy for aid induced displacement. This work has led to a broader collaboration using social science and legal advocacy to prevent land grabs and understand environmental change in areas under threat of mining and land appropriation.
His work has been featured in the Journal for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology, World Development, Oryx: The International Journal of Conservation, and Chantiers (Haiti). He is the co-editor of "Who Owns Haiti: People, Power, and Sovereignty" (University Press of Florida). He serves on the editorial board of Environment and Society. In 2019, Dr. Freeman was awarded the F. Gunther Eyck Award for dedication and devotion to teaching and students.
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Teaching
Fall 2024
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SIS-637 International Development
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SIS-637 International Development