Javier A. Arce-Nazario

Education:

B.S., University of Puerto Rico, Biology; M.A., Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology; Ph.D., Columbia University, Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology

Dissertation:

Reconstructing Amazonian Ecological Memory: How humans and rivers shape the Peruvian Amazon Landscape

Thesis Advisor:

Miguel Pinedo-Vasquez, Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology, Columbia University

Research Topic:

Contested Spaces: The effects of changing conservation policies and resource management laws on Latin American landscape histories.

Mentor:

Nancy L. Peluso, Professor of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley

Current Position:

Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill