Gabriel Suchodolski

I am a sociologist of development, politics, and environmental governance, currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Georgetown University’s Earth Commons Institute. I’m interested in how states and civil society can deliberately change natural resource use. My research analyzes land policy, property rights, policy implementation, and deforestation in Amazonia—a critical global climate ‘tipping point.’ I leverage ten years of ethnographic fieldwork with comparative-historical analysis and quantitative data. I earned a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles, an MA in Anthropology from Columbia University, an MA in Sociology from Rio de Janeiro State University, and a BA in International Relations from the University of São Paulo. Before my PhD, I worked at the New Social Cartography of the Amazon Project (PNCSA) in Manaus, Brazil, assisting traditional communities and social movements in mapping the social use of their territories.