Stephen Perz

Associate Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 1997

Areas of Interest: Demography, Environmental Sociology, Sociology of Development

Office: 3113 Turlington
Mailing Address: PO Box 117330, Gainesville, FL 32611-7330
Voice: (352) 392-0265 ext. 234
FAX: (352) 392-6568
E-mail: sperz@soc.ufl.edu
Individual Web Page: http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/sperz/

Stephen Perz received his PhD in sociology with a specialization in demography from the University of Texas at Austin in 1997. Perz conducts research on demographic processes and environmental change, land use practices and land cover dynamics, and the socio-spatial processes of road-building in the Amazon. He has received funding from NASA and NSF for work on roads and forest fragmentation in the Brazilian Amazon. He is involved in fieldwork along the Transamazon highway that crosses northern Brazil, as well as along the Transoceanic highway that connects southern Brazil to Peru and Bolivia. This work emphasizes interdisciplinary and international collaboration and has resulted in roughly 30 publications in numerous journals and books.