【高校校长/院长论坛】温迪·沃尔福德: 创新与影响——大学角色与全球合作

主  题：创新与影响——大学角色与全球合作

TOPIC: Innovation and Impact - The Role of University and Global Collaboration

主讲人：温迪·沃尔福德，美国康奈尔大学国际事务副教务长，农业与生命科学学院发展社会学系波尔森教授

SPEAKER: Wendy Wolford, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, Department of Development Sociology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, USA

主持人：叶敬忠，中国农业大学人文与发展学院教授、院长

CHAIR: Ye Jingzhong, Dean and Professor of College of Humanities and Development Studies, China Agricultural University

语言：英文

LANGUAGE: English

时间:  2023年11月8日（星期三）  下午14:00 - 16:00 

TIME: 14:30 – 16:00 PM, November 8, 2023 (Wednesday)

地点：中国农业大学西校区 人文与发展学院CIAD报告厅

VENUE: The Auditorium at CIAD building of the west campus of China Agricultural University

主办：中国农业大学人文与发展学院、国际交流与合作处

温迪·沃尔福德   美国康奈尔大学国际事务副教务长；农业与生命科学学院发展社会学系波尔森教授

1994年获加拿大麦吉尔大学文学学士学位（经济与国际发展方向），1997年和2001年先后获得美国加州大学伯克利分校地理学硕士和博士学位。2001-2010年任职于北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校地理学系，期间（2004-2005年）曾在耶鲁大学从事博士后研究。2010年以来任职于康奈尔大学，现任该校农业与生命科学学院发展社会学系波尔森教授，同时也是大卫·阿特金森中心经济发展研究方向学术带头人，主持多个国际组织与康奈尔大学的合作项目。2018年来任康奈尔大学国际事务副教务长，负责协调该校国际合作和跨学科项目，同时也是“康奈尔全球中心”项目负责人。

她同时也是国际土地政治研究领域著名学者。25年来，她一直致力于国际发展政治经济学、土地利用与分配以及社会动员方面的研究和教学。其主要田野研究地点在拉丁美洲，尤其是巴西。她出版了两部有关巴西历史上规模最大的基层社会运动（无地农民运动）的著作，并与巴西和世界各地的同事合作，开展不平等、财产剥夺和社会转型等问题的相关研究。其代表作包括《土地的传承》（2003）、《终有属地》（2010）、《全球土地交易治理》（2013）、《另一种地理学的可能：迈克尔·沃茨之影响》（2017）等。最近几年，她的研究主要聚焦于莫桑比克的农业知识政治，并曾作为富布赖特学者在莫桑比克工作了一年。目前正致力于完成一部关于莫桑比克农业政治方面的著作。

Wendy Wolford     Vice Provost for International Affairs; Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, Department of Development Sociology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, USA

Wolford received her bachelor of arts in economics and international development from McGill University (1994), and her master (1997) and Ph.D. (2001) degrees in geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She is now a Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development at the Department of Development Sociology, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University. Before joining Cornell, she was a faculty member in geography at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (2001-2010) and a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University (2004-2005). At Cornell since 2010, Wolford has served as the faculty director for economic development at the university’s David R. Atkinson Center, where she co-led CARE-Cornell and Oxfam-Cornell collaborations. She was appointed as vice provost for international affairs in 2018, focusing on strengthening the university’s many global connections and interdisciplinary initiatives. As vice provost for international affairs, she focuses on strengthening the university's many global connections and interdisciplinary initiatives. 

She is also a distinguished professor in global land politics. She spent over 25 years conducting research and teaching on the political economy of international development, land use and distribution, and social mobilization, with a regional concentration in Latin America—particularly Brazil. She has two books on the rise of the largest grassroots social movements in Brazilian history, the Movement of Rural Landless Workers and regularly works with colleagues in Brazil and around the world on issues of inequality, dispossession, and social transformation. Her representative works include To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil (2003),This Land is Ours Now: Social Mobilization and the Meanings of Land in Brazil (2010), Governing Global Land Deals: The Role of the State in the Rush for Land (co-edited, 2013), The New Enclosures: Critical Perspectives on Corporate Land Deals (co-edited, 2013), andAnother Geography is Possible: The Influences of Michael Watts (co-edited, 2017). In the last five years, she has begun working on the politics of agricultural knowledge in Mozambique. She spent a year as a Fulbright scholar in 2016 – 17, and is currently completing a book on agricultural politics in that country.