Charles Wood

Professor, Sociology
Ph.D. Sociology, University of Texas at Austin, 1975

Areas of Interest: Latin American Studies, Demography, Sociology of Development

Office: 319 Grinter
Mailing Address: PO Box 115530, Gainesville, FL 32611-5530
Voice: (352) 392-0375
FAX: (352) 392-7682
E-mail: cwood@latam.ufl.edu
Individual Web Page: http://www.latam.ufl.edu/users/cwood/

Charles Wood received his Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in 1975. In 1996 he was appointed Director of the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida, a job he held until 2004. His books include Frontier Expansion in Amazonia (University Presses of Florida, 1984, with Marianne Schmink), The Demography of Inequality in Brazil (Cambridge University Press, 1988, with José Alberto M. de Carvalho), Contested Frontiers in Amazonia (Columbia University Press, 1992, with Marianne Schmink), Land Use and Deforestation in the Amazon (University Presses of Florida, 2002, with Roberto Porro), and Rethinking Development in Latin America (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, with Bryan Roberts). Current projects concern deforestation in the Amazon, property rights and resource use, and the demography of racial discrimination social identity in Brazil. The National Science Foundation, the Institute for Global Change Research, and numerous foundations funded his research. He was awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 1983, and received an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award at the University of Florida in 1991.