Publications

2002
Environmental Nongovernmental Organizations, Civil Society and Democratization in Bulgaria (with Caedmon Staddon). East European Politics and Societies 16(1):182-222.

2002
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Local-Level Resource Use and Forest Restitution in Postsocialist Bulgaria. GeoJournal (special issue on Local Experience and Post-Communist Transition). In Press.

2002
Paradoxes of Conservation and Development in Postsocialist Bulgaria: Recent Controversies (with Caedmon Staddon). European Environment 12(2): 105-116.

2001
Der tägliche Überlebenskampf - Leben in einem postsozialistischen bulgarischen Dorf (Making Ends Meet in a Postsocialist Bulgarian village). Beiträge zur historischen Sozialkunde 31(3): 7-19. (In German)

2001
Avoiding Disaster: Diversification and Risk Management Among East African Herders (by Peter D. Little, Kevin Smith, Barbara A. Cellarius, D. Layne Coppock, and Christopher Barrett). Development and Change 32(3): 387-419.

2001
Bulgaria(with Tim Pilbrow). In Countries and their Cultures. Edited by Melvin Ember and Carole R. Ember. Vol. 1. Pp. 319-331. Macmillan Reference: New York.

2000
"You Can Buy Almost Anything with Potatoes": An Examination of Barter During Economic Crisis in Bulgaria. Ethnology 39(1): 73-92.

1998
Linking Global Priorities and Local Realities: Nongovernmental Organizations and the Conservation of Nature in Bulgaria. In Bulgaria in Transition: Environmental Consequences of Political and Economic Transformation. Edited by Krassimira Paskaleva, Philip Shapira, John Pickles, and Boian Koulov. Pp. 57-82. Ashgate Press: Aldershot, UK and Brookfield, USA.

1996
Cultural Action: Theory, Process, and Practice (with Deborah Crooks, Patricia Kannapel, Juliana McDonald, Cynthia Reeves, and John van Willigen). High Plains Applied Anthropologist 1(16): 9-18.

Recent Conference Papers and Academic Presentations

2002
Property Relations and Natural Resource Use in Postsocialist Bulgaria. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Atlanta, GA, March 9.

2002
Discussant for session on "Applied Anthropology in Post-Soviet States: Ethnographies of Change" at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Atlanta, GA, March 9.

2001
Without the co-ops, there would be no forests! Paper presented in the Research Seminar Series of the Centre for Environment and Planning and School of Geography and Environmental Management, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, December 19.

2001
A Civil Balkan Village: Cavers and Collective Action in the Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC, November 28 to December 2.

2001
Without the co-ops, there would be no forests! Paper prepared for workshop on Postsocialist Property Rights in Natural Resources, Lund University, Lund, Sweden, May 25-26.

2001
Bulgarian Forestry Cooperatives: Remembering the Past, Planning For the Future. Invited presentation to the Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Humboldt University-Berlin, May 16.

2001
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Social Dimensions of Forest Use and Forest Restitution in Postsocialist Bulgaria. Paper presented at the annual conference of the Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers, Plymouth, UK, January 4.

2000
Reflections on Anthropology and Public Policy: A Case Study of Sustainable Development and Nature Conservation Activities in Bulgaria. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 15-19.

2000
An Anthropological Examination of Forest Restitution in Bulgaria: Some Preliminary Observations. Paper presented at a conference on Representing Anthropology and Anthropological Representations in Eastern Europe, Cluj, Romania; September 26. 2000 Bulgarian Forest Restitution in Socio-Cultural Perspective: Preliminary Observations. Paper presented at the International Association for Southeast European Anthropology's conference on The Anthropology of Southeast Europe - Ten Years After: Socio-Cultural Aspects of Transformation, Sofia, Bulgaria, September 14-1.

1999
"You Can Buy Almost Anything with Potatoes": Exploring the Modes of Barter During Economic Crisis in Bulgaria. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL, November 21.

1999
Waiting Till the Cows Come Home, Making Hay While the Sun Shines: Postsocialist Economic Strategies in a Bulgarian Mountain Village. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Tucson, AZ, April 24.