See also Agrarian Studies Front Door

The Agrarian Studies Program is an experimental, interdisciplinary initiative involving faculty and graduate students from the departments of Anthropology, Economics, History, Political Science, Sociology, the program in International Relations, and the schools of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Law. The aim is to reinvigorate the analysis of agrarian issues with the fresh air of popular knowledge about lived experience--e.g., poverty, subsistence, cultivation, ecology, justice, art, custom, law, property, ritual life, cooperation, and state action. The interdisciplinary premise of the program is that the study of the Third World must never be separated from the study of the West, nor the humanities separated from the social sciences. The program sponsors a lively weekly colloquium organized around an annual theme. Specialists are invited from throughout the world. A team-taught interdisciplinary graduate seminar, Agrarian Societies: Culture, Power, History, and Development, is offered in the fall term of each year. The program also sponsors four to six postdoctoral fellows from various countries, representing disciplines such as anthropology, economics, history, and sociology. Interdisciplinary graduate student colloquia and small research grants for graduate work on agrarian topics are also funded. Agrarian Studies is supported by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations. It is directed by James Scott, the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science, and it is also affiliated with the Center for International and Area Studies.

For more information on the work of the Agrarian Studies Program, telephone or write the program's coordinator, Kay Mansfield, P.O. Box 208300, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8300, 203 432-9833.