Carmen Diana Deere
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Director,
Center for Latin American Studies |
Research Interests
Agricultural development, gender, land policy, rural labor markets
Geographic Expertise
Brazil, Andes, Central America, Cuba, Comparative
Curriculum Vitae 
Courses
LAS 6220 Issues and Perspective in Latin American Studies
Background
Dr. Carmen Diana Deere is Director of the Center for Latin American Studies and Professor of Food and Resource Economics and Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. She holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and a M.A. in Development Studies from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.
Deere is a Past President of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) and of the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS). She serves on numerous editorial boards, including World Development, and is an Associate Editor of Feminist Economics. Her primary areas of research have been land policy and agrarian reform, rural social movements, and gender issues in Latin American agricultural development. She is the co-author (with Magdalena León) of Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001), winner of LASA’s Bryce Wood Book Award and NECLAS’s Best Book Award. This was a twelve-country study including Brazil, Mexico, Central America and the Andes.
Her recent publications include a co-authored study for the Canadian North-South Institute and the International Development Research Centre, Land and Development in Latin America: Openings for Policy Research (2005) and a co-edited special issue of Feminist Economics (2006) on Women and the Distribution of Wealth. She is currently co-editing a volume on the rural social movements in Latin America