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Glenn Davis Stone

Research Professor of Environmental Science, Sweet Briar College

Glenn Stone is an anthropologist and environmental scientist who works primarily on the politics and ecology of food and agriculture, both industrial and smallholder . His fieldwork has been in Nigeria, India, the Philippines, and Appalachia, with additional research in prehistoric archaeology in the US and in an agri- biotech laboratory. He is author of 2 books and over 80 academic articles, and is currently advisory editor to the journals Nature:Plants and CAFE. He has been awarded fellowships by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the School for Advanced Research, and the Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and served as president of the Anthropology & Environment Society. After 34 years on the faculties of Columbia Univ. and Washington Univ., he came to Sweet Briar College as Research Professor in 2022.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Research Professor of Environmental Science, Sweet Briar College
  • 1995–2022
    Associate and Full Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies, Washington University-St. Louis
  • 1988–1995
    Assistant and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
  • 1987–1988
    Weatherhead Fellow, School of Advanced Research, Santa Fe

Education

  • 1988 
    Univ of Arizona, PhD, Anthropology