Current Work
Alice KellyAlice, former ESPM grad, is a NSF SEES Postdoctoral Fellow working in collaboration with Maggi Kelly and the National Park Service’s Pacific West Regional Staff. Alice seeks to use historical and contemporary data to understand the spatial distribution of resource related (e.g. poaching) and non-resource related (e.g. murder) crime in the Pacific West’s national parks and monuments. Using a political ecology approach, Alice also seeks to understand the biophysical, social, and political economic drivers and impacts of crime in these areas. Alice hopes that understanding not only where crime occurs, but also the structural reasons why crime occurs on National Park Service lands will allow natural resource managers to identify and address the root causes of these crimes. She also hopes that this study will allow National Park Service Staff to be better able to predict where crimes will happen and why, allowing them to target their crime prevention and law enforcement resources.
Past Work
2007-2013: Cameroon Waza National Park: Examined the political and economic drivers of protected area management and the social and ecological impacts that management decisions may have had in Waza National Park,northern Cameroon.
2003-4: Invasive plant species, Rhode Island & Connecticut: Conducted under the aegis of the Nature Conservancy, this study sought to classify vegetation types in RI and CT and identify where exotic plant invasions occurred.
2003: Nairobi National Park Controlled Burn Study: Assessed the effects of burn frequency on browse species most used by black rhinocerous populations in Nairobi National Park. Presented results to Kenya Wildlife Service with other researchers.
Education
2013: Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley: Environmental Science, Policy and Management
2004: B.A. Connecticut College: Double Major in Environmental Studies and English
Publications
Kelly, A.B. Forthcoming. The Crumbling Fortress: Territory, Access, and Subjectivity Production in Waza National Park, Northern Cameroon. Antipode.
Kelly, A.B. and N.M. Kelly. Forthcoming. Validating the Remotely Sensed Geography of Crime. Remote Sensing.
Kelly A.B. and N.L. Peluso, Forthcoming. Frontiers of Commodification: State lands and their formalization. Society and Natural Resources.
Putzel, L., Kelly, A.B., Cerutti, P.O. and Y. Artati. Forthcoming. Formalization as development in land and natural resource policy. Society and Natural Resources.
Gupta, C. and A.B. Kelly. 2014. Social Relations of Fieldwork: Giving Back in a Research Setting. Journal of Research Practice.
Kelly, A.B. 2014. Field Reflection: Drawing Lines in the Mud: Giving Back (or trying to) in Northern Cameroon. Journal of Research Practice.
Kelly, A.B. 2013. Property and Negotiation in Waza National Park Land Deal Politics Initiative Working Paper, Transnational Institute Environmental Justice Program.
Fortmann, L., Baker-Medard, M. and A.B. Kelly. 2013. Connections: The Next Decade of Rural Sociological Research on Natural Resources and the Environment. Rural America in a Globalizing World. Ransom, E., Jenson, L. and C. Bailey [ed.s]. Morgantown West Virginia: University of West Virginia Press.
Kelly, A.B. 2011. Conservation practice as primitive accumulation. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 38(4), 683–701.
-- Reprinted in Peluso, N. L. and Christian Lund (Ed.s). 2012. New Frontiers of Land Control.New York: Routledge. Chapter 2.
Kelly, A.B., Small, C.J. and G.D. Dryer. 2009. Vegetation classification and invasive species distribution in natural areas of southern New England. Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society 136(4), pp. 500–519.
Peace Corps Cameroon
2004-2006: Peace Corps Volunteer in Agroforestry and Ecotourism Development Northern Cameroon. Provided technical assistance to park manager of Mozogo-Gokoro National Park; organized participatory ecotourism planning; offered adult education in agroforestry development, community forestry development, improved cook-stove production, HIV/AIDS prevention and women’s empowerment.
Hobbies, Outreach, and Fun
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