Lisa Curran

Roger and Cynthia Lang Professor of Environmental Anthropology and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment

Academic Appointments

Professor, Anthropology
Senior Fellow, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment

Professional Education

PhD, Princeton University, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology (1994)
AB, Harvard University, Anthropology (1984)

2022-23 Courses

Independent Studies
- Directed Individual Study
  ANTHRO 451 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Individual Study
  ANTHRO 96 (Win, Spr)
- Directed Individual Study in Earth Systems
  EARTHSYS 297 (Aut, Spr)
- Directed Reading in Environment and Resources
  ENVRES 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Directed Research
  EARTHSYS 250 (Aut)
- Directed Research in Environment and Resources
  ENVRES 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Graduate Internship
  ANTHRO 452 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Graduate Teaching
  ANTHRO 440 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Independent Study for Honors or Senior Paper Writing
  ANTHRO 95B (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Internship in Anthropology
  ANTHRO 97 (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Master's Project
  ANTHRO 441 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Qualifying Examination: Area
  ANTHRO 401B (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Qualifying Examination: Topic
  ANTHRO 401A (Aut, Win, Spr)
- Research Apprenticeship
  ANTHRO 450 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Research in Anthropology
  ANTHRO 95 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)

Prior Year Courses

2019-20 Courses

Interdisciplinary Research Proposals: Effective Presentation, Skills, and Styles
ANTHRO 308B (Spr)
Political Ecology of Tropical Land Use: Conservation, Natural Resource Extraction, and Agribusiness
ANTHRO 166 (Win)

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Bing Director in Human Biology, Emerita
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I am interested in how environmental variation affects life history traits, population structure and dynamics, and species interactions in ecological and evolutionary time, using Lepidoptera.

85 Total Publications
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Kevin Boyce

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and, by courtesy, of Earth System Science
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Paleontology/Geobiology; Fossil record of plant physiology and development; Evolution of terrestrial ecosystems including fungi, animals, and environmental feedbacks with the biota

70 Total Publications
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Brendan Cornwell

Postdoctoral Scholar, Hopkins Marine Station

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Larry Crowder

Edward Ricketts Provostial Professor, Professor of Oceans, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Biology

96 Total Publications
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Gretchen C. Daily

Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies

213 Total Publications
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Rodolfo Dirzo

Associate Dean, Doerr School of Sustainability, Bing Prof in Environmental Science, Professor of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
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Ecological and evolutionary aspects of plant-animal interactions, largely but not exclusively, in tropical forest ecosystems.
Conservation biology in tropical ecosystems.
Studies on biodiversity.
Education, at all levels, on scientific practice, ecology and biodiversity conservation.

196 Total Publications
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Rob Dunbar

W.M. Keck Professor in the School of Earth Sciences, Professor of Oceans, of Earth System Science and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Research Interests
Ocean processes, biogeochemistry, climatology/paleoclimatology, isotopic chemistry, ocean policy

298 Total Publications
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Alejandra Echeverri Ochoa

Postdoctoral Scholar, Biology
Research Interests
I am an interdisciplinary conservation scientist interested in studying the social and ecological dimensions of biodiversity conservation in Latin America. I study questions related to the cultural value of biodiversity, the human footprint on ecological communities, and the policy interventions that can be done to support biodiversity conservation across Latin American ecosystems

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Tadashi Fukami

Professor of Biology and of Earth System Science
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Ecological and evolutionary community assembly, with emphasis on understanding historical contingency in community structure, ecosystem functioning, biological invasion and ecological restoration, using experimental, theoretical, and comparative methods involving bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals.

117 Total Publications
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Elizabeth Hadly

Director, Jasper Ridge, Paul S. and Billie Achilles Professor of Environmental Biology, Professor of Earth System Science, Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and Professor, by courtesy, of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Research Interests
Elizabeth Hadly and her lab probe how perturbations such as climatic change and human modification of the environment influence the evolution and ecology of animals.

118 Total Publications
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Eric Lambin

George and Setsuko Ishiyama Provostial Professor and Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment
Research Interests
I study human-environment interactions in land systems by linking remote sensing, GIS and socio-economic data. I aim at better understanding causes and impacts of changes in tropical forests, drylands, and farming systems. I currently focus on land use transitions – i.e., the shift from deforestation (or land degradation) to reforestation (or land sparing for nature), – the influence of globalization on land use decisions, and the interactions between public and private governance of land use.

281 Total Publications
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David Lobell

Benjamin M. Page Professor, William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute, at the Woods Institute for the Environment and at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
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We study the interactions between food production, food security, and the environment using a range of modern tools.

216 Total Publications