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| CURRENT POSITION |
| 2001 to present |
Research Scientist, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. |
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Lecturer, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. |
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Program Director, Tropical Resources Institute, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. |
| EDUCATION |
| 1994–1999 |
Yale University, New Haven, CT
PhD. In Forestry and Environmental Studies, completed May 1999, entitled “Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia, 1881–1996.” Research interests include the examination of historical, cultural and political-economic factors that influence how rural people use natural resources. Particular emphasis is placed on property rights and customary laws regulating resource tenure in Southeast Asia. |
| 1992–1987 |
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, New Haven, CT
Master of Environmental Sciences, in Tropical Ecology. |
| 1983–1987 |
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Bachelor of Arts in Biological Anthropology, magna cum laude.
Senior Honors Thesis: “Latah: A Culture-Bound Syndrome.” An examination of cultural and physiological origins of a behavioral trait specific to women in certain ethnic groups in Southeast Asia. |
| GRANTS and AWARDS |
| 2006–2011 |
Yale Education, Leadership, and Training Initiative, Co-PI (Lead PI, Mark Ashton), $4.8 million to develop short courses and workshops on conservation of biodiversity for national in Latin America and Southeast Asia. |
| 2004-2007 |
Compton Foundation, Funds for Graduate Field Research Fellowships for African and Latin American Students, PI Curran, Doolittle and Yale FES Compton Foundation, $150,00 |
| 2001–2005 |
Agroforestry Fellowships for Africa. Awarded $20,000 annually from the World Agroforestry Centre for student fellowships, PI Curran and Doolittle |
| 2004 |
Agroforestry in Landscape Mosaics. Award from the World Agroforestry Centre to work as project manager on a collaboration between Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, University of Georgia Anthropology Department and World Agroforestry Centre, $15,000 |
| 2003 |
Yale Class of 1980 Video Editing Center, Co-PI David Kneas and Amity Doolittle, $8,500 |
| 2003 |
Larry and Margaret King Distinguished Lecture Series, PI Curran and Doolittle, $10,000 |
| 2003 |
Cooperative Grants, Association of International Educators, funding for “Strengthening International Student Capacity and Networks at Yale's School of the Environment,” $2,000 |
| 2002 |
Yale Center for the Study Globalization funding for Lecture and Film Series “Globalization and the Environment: International Agendas and Local Responses,” $15,000 |
| 2002 |
Yale Center for International and Area Studies funding for Lecture and Film Series “Globalization and the Environment: International Agendas and Local Responses,” $5,000 |
| 1997 |
Enders Fellowship, Yale University, New Haven, CT, $2,500 |
| 1996 |
Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, University of Malaya, Research Fellow |
| 1995 |
Fulbright-Hays, Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Award, $32,000 |
| 1995 |
National Science Foundation, Law and Social Science Program, Dissertation Improvement Award, $6,300 |
| 1995 |
Social Science Research Council/American Council of Learned Societies, Southeast Asia Program, International Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, $8,000 |
| 1994 |
Yale Center for International and Area Studies, predissertation award |
| 1994 |
Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies, predissertation award |
| 1994–1998 |
Yale University Doctoral Fellowship |
| 1992, 1993 |
N. Brown Scholarship, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
An award offered to “individuals who have demonstrated particular promise as natural resource practitioners, scholars and conservationists.” |
| 1987 |
Radcliffe College President's Discretionary Fund, Harvard College
Support for research at Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA |
| 1987 |
International Fund for Animal Welfare
Support for research at Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA |
| 1987 |
World Wildlife Fund
Support for research at Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA |
| 1985, 1986, 1987 |
Harvard College Scholarship, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA |
| 1985, 1986, 1987 |
Elizabeth Cary Aggasiz Certificate of Merit, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA |
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Doolittle, A. 2005. Property and Politics in Sabah, Malaysia (North Borneo): A Century of Native Struggles over Land Rights, 1881–1996. University of Washington Press, Nature and Culture Series. |
| EDITED VOLUMES |
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Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. 2005. Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia Monograph Series, Volume 54, Yale University. |
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Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. In preparation. “Changing Ways of Thinking about the Relations between Society and Environment” in Re-Interpreting Nature and Culture in Southeast Asia. |
PEER REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
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Doolittle, A. under review. “A Social History of Conservation and Resource Use in Sabah, Malaysia: Lost Opportunities, Future Possibilities.” Journal of Peasant Studies. |
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Doolittle, A. under review. “Revealing the Methods in an Interdisciplinary Research Project: Political Ecology Perspectives on Property Rights and Natural Resources Management” Environmental Management. |
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Doolittle A. 2004. ”Powerful Persuasions: The Language of Property and Power in Sabah, Malaysia, 1881-1996.” Modern Asian Studies, 38 (4): 321–850. |
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Doolittle A. 2003. “Colliding Discourses: Western Land Laws and Native Customary Rights in North Borneo, 1881-1928” Journal of Southeast Asian Studies. 34 (1): 97–126. |
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Doolittle, A. 2001. “‘Are They Making Fun of Us?’: The Politics of Development in Sabah, Malaysia.” Moussons: Social Science Research on Southeast Asia 4: 75-95. |
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Doolittle, A. 2001 “From Village Land to ‘Native Reserve’: Changes in Property Rights in Sabah, 1950-1996.” Human Ecology 29 (1): 69-98. |
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Doolittle, A. 1998. “Historical and Contemporary Views of Legal Pluralism in Sabah, Malaysia” Forum Commentary in Common Property Resource Digest, No. 47, December 1998. |
| BOOK CHAPTERS |
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Doolittle, A. 2006 ”Resources, Ideologies, and Nationalism: The Politics of Development in Sabah, Malaysia“ In Development Brokers and Translators, David Mosse and Davis Lewis, eds. Bloomfield, Ct.: Kumarian Press. |
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Doolittle, A. 2006 “Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia 1881-1996” in Environmental Change in Native and Colonial Histories of Borneo: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future, Wadley, R., ed, Leiden: KTLV Press. |
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Dove, M., P. Sajise, and A. Doolittle. 2005. “Introduction: The Problem of Conserving Nature on Cultural Landscapes” in Nature in Culture: Case Studies from Southeast Asia. Monograph Series, no. 54. New Haven: Yale University Southeast Asia Studies. |
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Doolittle, A. In preparation. “Re-defining Native Customary Law: Struggles over Property Rights Between Native Peoples and Colonial Rulers in Sabah, Malaysia” in Dove, Sajise and Doolittle, eds. Re-Interpreting Nature and Culture in Southeast Asia. |
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Dove, M. and A. Doolittle. In preparation. “Changing Ways of Thinking about the Relations between Society and Environment” in Re-Interpreting Nature and Culture in Southeast Asia |
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Doolittle, A. 1990. “Latah Behavior by Females Among the Rungus of Sabah,” in V. Sutlive, ed. Female and Male in Borneo: Contributions and Challenges to Gender Studies, Borneo Research Council Monograph Series, Vol. 1. |
| ENCYLOPEDIA OF ENVIRONMENT AND SOCIETY, SAGE PRESS |
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Author of 13 entries original essays for this encyclopedia: Roy Rappaport, Vandana Shiva, Ramachandra Guha, Ester Boserup, land ethic, land degradation, Theodore Roosevelt’s Conservation Administration, balance of nature, fortress conservation, biopiracy, takings, usufruct rights, myth of the noble savage. |
| BOOK REVIEWS |
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Doolittle, A. forthcoming. Review of “The Complex Forest: Communities, Uncertainty, & Adaptive Collaborative Management,” Carol Colfer and “The Equitable Forest: Diversity, Community & Resource Management”, Carol Colfer, ed. Economic Anthropology. |
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Doolittle, A. 2005. Review of “In Search of the Rainforest,” Candace Slater, ed. American Anthropologist, June 10(7). |
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Doolittle, A. 2002. Review of “Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Its Transformations: Critical Anthropological Perspectives,” Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes and Alan Bicker, eds. American Ethnologist 29 (1): 180-181. |
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Doolittle, A. 2000. Review of “The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia: Resources and Resistance,” Philip Hirsch and Carol Warren, eds. Journal of Asian Studies 59 (3): 800-801. |
| PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS |
| 3/06 |
Invited speaker, University of California, Berkeley, Center for Southeast Asian Studies., “Property and Politics in Sabah Malaysia: Native Struggles over Land Rights.” |
| 3/06 |
Invited speaker, Ohio University Athens Center for International Studies, “Property and Politics in Sabah Malaysia: Native Struggles over Land Rights.” |
| 5/05 |
Invited speaker, Stanford University Malaysia Forum. “The Conservation Landscape: Histories of Native Land Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia”. |
| 10/04 |
“Here There Be Tygers: Exploring Terra Incognito between Academia and Community in Participatory Mapping.” Presented at Conservation Without Borders: The Impact of Conservation on Human Communities at The Center for Tropical Ecology and Conservation and Antioch New England Graduate School. |
| 5/04 |
“International Politics and the Environment.” Presented at the Faculty Development Workshop Integrating Ethics into Environmental Studies at the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. |
| 9/03 |
“Resources, Ideologies, and Nationalism: The Politics of Development in Postcolonial Sabah” Presented at Conference on Order and Disjuncture in Development at School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. |
| 8/00 |
“Controlling the Land: Property Rights and Power Struggles in Sabah, Malaysia 1881-1996.” Presented at Conference on Environmental Change in Native and Colonial Histories of Borneo: Lessons from the Past, Prospects for the Future at International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, The Netherlands. |
| 4/99 |
“The Politics of Development in Postcolonial Malaysia,” Presented in a Panel on Local and Trans-local: Locating Resource Control in Shifting Fields of Identity and Power at the Association of Asian Studies, Boston, Mass, March 11-14, 1999. |
| 10/98 |
“The Politics of Development in Postcolonial Malaysia” Yale Council of Southeast Asian Studies, Yale University, October 7, 1998. |
| 10/98 |
Discussant for paper by Arun Agrawal, “The Production of Community-in-Conservation: The Forest Councils of Kumaon,” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, October 2, 1998. |
| 5/98 |
“Are They Making Fun of Us?: Exploring State-Society Relations through Narratives of Development Politics and Oral Traditions.” Conference on Interdisciplinary Work in Progress. Yale University, April 17-19, 1998. |
| 3/98 |
Discussant for paper by Peter Boomgaard, “In the Shadow of Rice: Roots and Tubers in Indonesian Agriculture,” Program in Agrarian Studies, Yale University, March 6, 1998. |
| 2/97 |
Discussant for paper by Charles Zerner, ‘Through a Green Lens: The Construction of Customary Environmental Law and Community in Indonesia’s Maluku Islands,” Law and Society Review, Vol. 28 (5, 1994): 1079-1121, Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University, February 28, 1997. |
| SERVICE |
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Society for Conservation Biology, Social Science Working Group (2004–2005) |
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Fund for Urgent Anthropology, Board of Sponsors (2000–present) |
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Yale Council on Southeast Asian Studies, Board Member (2002–present) |
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Cold Spring School, Board of Trustees (1966–present) |
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Social Ecology Focal Group at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (2000–present) |
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Reader for Canon National Parks Science Scholars Program for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2006) |
| Letters of recommendation are available on request from the following professors: |
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Dr. Mark Ashton, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, mark.ashton@yale.edu |
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Dr. Lisa M. Curran, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, lisa.curran@yale.edu |
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Dr. Michael R. Dove, Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, micheal.dove@yale.edu |
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Dr. Nancy Lee Peluso, University of California at Berkeley, Environmental Policy, Science and Management, npeluso@nature.berkeley.edu |
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Dr. James C. Scott, Yale University, Department of Political Science, james.scott@yale.edu |
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