Director: Dr Vinita Damodaran

Research Director: Prof Richard Grove (Professorial Fellow 2006-2009)

Senior Research Associates

Paul Basu (UCL)
Dr James Beattie (University of Waikato)
Professor Sir Peter Crane (Former Director, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew)
Dr Quentin Cronk (Director, Vancouver Botanic Garden)
Dr Rohan D'Souza (JNU, Delhi)
Dr Richard Drayton (Cambridge)
Prof Mark Elvin (Australian National University)
Dr Mark Harrison (Oxford)
Professor Deepak Kumar (JNU, Delhi)
Dr Vimbai Kwashirai
Dr Bao Maohong (Department of History, Peking University)
Roger Moody (Founder, Mines and Communities Network)
Professor Brian Morris (Goldsmith's)
Dr Henry Noltie (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh)
Dr Felix Padel (Independent Researcher)
Dr Stuart Peters (Queen Mary College)
Dr Mahesh Rangarajan (Delhi)
Dr Daniel Rycroft (UEA)
Dr Kate Showers (University of Sussex)
Dr. Pauline Von Hellerman (Universisity of York. Funded by the British Academy to work on Southern Nigeria; Forest History)
Dr Andrew Wardell

Associated Sussex Faculty

Dr. Alex Aisher (Funded by the British Academy to work on environmental anthropology of Arunachal Pradesh)
Dr Grace Carswell
Professor Saul Dubow
Dr Jim Endersby
Professor James Fairhead
Professor Alun Howkins
Prof Robert Iliffe
Professor Melissa Leach (IDS)
Professor Alan Lester
Dr James Livesey
Dr Peter Luetchford
Dr Lyla Mehta (IDS)
Dr Mika Peck
Ms Esha Shah (IDS)
Professor Brian Short
Dr Maya Unnithan

Graduate Student Associates

Anita Nair (Kerala: Plant Medicine)
Bhabani Shankar Nayak (New Economic Reforms and its impact on indigenous people in Orissa, India)
Lowell Woodcock (Tobago: Conservation conflicts and environmental history)
James Fraser (Amazonia: terra prata debates)