Yvonne Braun

Assistant Professor

Address: 721 PLC University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403	Phone:	(541) 346-5752
	Fax:	(541) 346-5026
	Email:	ybraun@uoregon.edu

Professor Braun received her B.A. in Sociology in 1994 from the State University of New York at Geneseo. She then received her M.A. in 2000 and her Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of California, Irvine. Her dissertation research investigated the social impacts of a dam-development project on local communities in Lesotho, Southern Africa, with a particular emphasis on how these impacts are gendered. Professor Braun joined the Sociology department in 2005.

Research Interests

political ecology and institutional ethnography
social impacts of development
Lesotho, Southern Africa

Teaching Areas

development, social change, environment
gender
social inequality

Courses Taught

SOC 313	Social Issues and Movements
SOC 450	Sociology of Developing Areas
SOC 656	Topics in the Sociology of Gender: Gender and Development

Selected Articles

Braun, Yvonne A. Forthcoming. “The Promise of Feminist Political Ecology.” In Understanding Environment, edited by Samir Dasgupta. New Delhi, India: The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Press.

Braun, Yvonne A. 2006. “Large Dams as Development: Restructuring Access to Natural Resources in Lesotho.” In Globalization and the Environment. Edited by Andrew K. Jorgenson and Edward L. Kick. Leiden, NL: Brill Press.

Braun, Yvonne A. 2005. “Selling the River: Gendered Experiences of Resource Extraction and Development in Lesotho.” Pp. 373-396 in Nature, Raw Materials, and Political Economy. Edited by Paul Ciccantell, David A. Smith and Gay Seidman, Research in Rural Sociology and Development, (10). London: Elsevier Press.

Braun, Yvonne A. 2005. “Resettlement and Risk: Women's Community Work in Lesotho.” Pp. 29-60 in Gender Realities: Local and Global. Edited by Marcia Texler Segal and Vasilikie Demos, Advances in Gender Research, (9). London: Elsevier Press.

Education

Ph.D. -- University of California, Irvine