M. PRISCILLA STONE

M. PRISCILLA STONE
Director of Overseas and Undergraduate Programs, International and Area Studies;
Adjunct Assoc. Prof., Sociocultural Anthropology
Ph.D., University of Arizona, 1988
314-935-7647
pstone@wustl.edu

Priscilla Stone during fieldwork in Plateau State, Nigeria.

I am an economic and ecological anthropologist whose primary focus has been on African agrarian systems. More specifically, I have an interest in agricultural labor and its organization within households and within communities, with a special focus on the sexual division of labor. I have done field research in Nigeria , Senegal , Mauritania and Ethiopia . My interests also include the effects of globalization on local economies and I co-edited a book on the topic of commodities and globalization as seen from an anthropological perspective. I am also interested in people's changing relations with their environment and was the co-editor of a 1984 volume on the relationship of population to environment. I have authored and co-authored a number of journal articles on agricultural and economic change and development.

I am currently Director of Undergraduate and Overseas Programs in International and Area Studies at Washington University in St. Louis, and was previously Director of the Africa Program at the Social Science Research Council.

Selected Publications

2006 (P.D. Little, M. P. Stone, A.P. Castro, W. Negatu) 'Moving in Place': Drought and Poverty Dynamics in South Wollo, Ethiopia. Special issue on Combating Persistent Poverty in Africa in the Journal of Development Studies 42 (2): 200-225.

2003 Is Sustainability for Development Anthropologists? Human Organization 62(2):93-99.

2000 (A. Haugerud, M.P. Stone, P.D. Little, eds.) Commodities and Globalization: Anthropological Perspectives. Rowman and Littlefield Publishers: Lanham, MD. Introduction authored by M. P. Stone, A. Haugerud and P.D. Little.

2000 (M. P. Stone and G.D. Stone) Kofyar Women who get Ahead: Incentives to Agricultural Commercialization in Nigeria. In Commercial Ventures and Women Farmers: Increasing Food Security in Developing Countries. Edited by Anita Spring. Lynne Reinner Press: Boulder.

1998 (R. Wilk and M.P. Stone) Introduction to a Very Human Ecology: Celebrating the Work of Robert McC. Netting. Human Ecology 26(4): 175-188.

1997 The Remaking of African Studies. Africa Today 44(2): 179-184.

1996 (R.M.Netting and M.P. Stone) The Mosaic of Farming Frontiers: Diversity and Change in the Benue Plains of Central Nigeria. Africa 66:52-70

1995 (M.P.Stone, G.D. Stone and R.M. Netting) The Sexual Division of Labor in Kofyar Agriculture. American Ethnologist 22:165-186.

1994 (L. Arizpe, M.P. Stone, D. Majors, eds.) Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate. Westview Press: Boulder.