SCHOOL of INTERNATIONAL SERVICE
American University · Washington, D.C.
PHD STUDENT Eve Z. Bratman
Eve Z. Bratman
Eve Z. Bratman
E-mail: Ebratman [at] gmail.com
Fields: Environmental Policy, International Relations
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Research and Background
Eve Bratman recently returned from the Brazilian Amazon, where she spent the past year and a half conducting field research towards her dissertation in central Pará. Her research concerns how disparate civil society activists construct common frameworks for articulating land-use decisions, in an area where securing environmental conservation while valuing human rights and constructing infrastructure development projects are frequently at loggerheads. The dissertation draws from the constructivist international relations literature on social movements and norm diffusion, and relies heavily on ethnographic and participatory methodology.
Eve started researching in Brazil in 2001, originally working on issues of urban design and ecological sustainability in the south of the country. She worked as a community organizer on transportation issues in Chicago at the Center for Neighborhood Technology before beginning to research the nexus between the environmental and human rights movements full-time as a Ph.D. student at American University’s School of International Service in 2003. Eve holds a Certificate in Human Rights from the Washington College of Law (2004) and is a proud alumna of Oberlin College (2001, with highest honors in Environmental Studies in Politics). Her dissertation research has been supported through a Fulbright fellowship (2007) and the SIS Dissertation Fellowship (2007-2008).
In the spring semester of 2008 Eve will be teaching a traveling faculty member in Brazil, South Africa, and New Zealand with the International Honors’ Program’s Cities of the 21st Century program. Her long-term academic interests include: environmental policy and human rights, social movements, and international development in both rural and urban areas. While not reading, writing, and researching, Eve is likely to be found bicycling, cooking vegan and vegetarian meals for friends, playing soccer, capoeira, or Ultimate frisbee, and finding fair-trade markets for natural resource-based bead jewelry.
Dissertation Committee: Chairperson - Julie Mertus (American University); Paul Wapner (American University); Stephan Schwartzman (Environmental Defense)