Mara chatting with a Maasai women at a community managed water pump in a village on the boundary of Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya, 2007.

Mara Goldman, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2006, is Assistant Professor of Geography with research interests in human-environment relations and critical geographies of conservation and development, with a regional focus in East/Southern Africa.  Her research is focused specifically in Tanzania and Kenya, at the interface between scientific and local knowledge regarding wildlife and local ecological processes; the politics of wildlife conservation; changing pastoral livelihood practices; and the politics of knowledge and participation surrounding conservation and development projects.  She is currently working on a research project (in association with the International Livestock Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya), which looks at changing pastoral communication patterns and participatory processes in five different sites across the Tanzanian and Kenyan border.  

Phone: 303-492-8794. email: mara.goldman@colorado.EDU