The University of Arizona includes many departments, schools and colleges, and professional and institutional partners who work in the areas relating to development practice. UArizona faculty and staff have extensive international experience and are recognized as both scholars and practitioners.
Core Faculty and Management
Katherine Snyder is the MDP Director. With a Ph.D. in Anthropology, Professor Snyder has over a decade of experience living and working in several African countries. Her work has focused on political and social change, agricultural development and community-based natural resource management. She has worked in fisheries, water management, pastoralism and tropical agriculture focusing on institutional analysis, governance, and farmer decision-making. An anthropologist by training, she has worked on multidisciplinary teams with ecologists, economists, soil scientists, agronomists, foresters, hydrologists and rangeland managers to design solutions to challenges faced by rural smallholders in Africa.
Faculty in the Field of Development Practice
These faculty members, drawn from programs throughout the University of Arizona, conduct teaching and research relating to development practice. Courses taught by these faculty are regularly available to MDP students.
Tim Finan, Anthropology (Founder of the Arizona MDP Program)
Diane Austin, Anthropology
Mamadou Baro, Anthropology
Laura Bakkensen, Government and Public Policy
Elizabeth Baldwin, Government and Public Policy
Alex Braithwaite, Government and Public Policy
James Buizer, Natural Resources and the Environment
Joel Cuello, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
John Ehiri, Public Health
Kacey Ernst, Public Health
Larry Fisher, Natural Resources and the Environment
Kevin Fitzsimmons, Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
Anna Josephson, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Laura Lopez-Hoffman, Natural Resources and the Environment
Diana Liverman, Geography
William Mannan, Natural Resources and the Environment
Stuart Marsh, Natural Resources and the Environment
Jeffrey Michler, Agricultural and Resource Economics
William Mishler, Government and Public Policy
Lise Nelson, Geography
David Quanrud, Natural Resources and the Environment
Tauhidur Rahman, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Raymond Smith, Human Rights Practice (and former MDP Assistant Director)
Paul Schuler, Government and Public Policy
Donald C. Slack, Middle Eastern Studies
Jose Soto, Natural Resources and the Environment
Douglas Taren, Public Health
Marcela Vásquez-León, Anthropology
Peter Waller, Biosystems Engineering
Paul Wilson, Agriculture and Resource Economics
Rod Wing, Plant Sciences