Max Ajl is a doctoral student in development sociology at Cornell University, completing a dissertation on the Tunisian national liberation struggle and post-colonial underdevelopment. His research focuses on food, agrarian, and ecological issues in the broader Arab region, as well as the intellectual history of development alternatives. Max’s articles on intellectual history have been published in the Review of African Political Economy and the Journal of Peasant Studies, and his articles on Syrian and Yemeni long-term rural underdevelopment are forthcoming in several edited collections. He is a member of the Political Economy Project and a co-editor of the Palestine and Political Economy pages at Jadaliyya, and is a member of Thimar, a collective focusing on agriculture in the Arab region. He is also an associated researcher with the Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, in Tunisia.

Anne Hendrixson earned her M.A. in international development and social change from Clark University. Anne was PopDev coordinator (from 1996-2000), and returned to the program as assistant director in 2012. Before coming back to PopDev, she served as the assistant director for aids2031, a project commission of UNAIDS to chart a long-term, global response to HIV and also started up several new initiatives for the NCIIA, an educational non-profit.

Anne’s interests include taking on policy directed at young populations, promoting fresh thinking around the links between population and the environment, supporting transformative integrations of reproductive health and HIV/AIDS approaches for all people, and working for contraceptive safety and access. Her recent publications include, “Beyond Bonus or Bomb: Upholding the Sexual and Reproductive Health for Young People” in Reproductive Health Matters 2014;22(43).

Betsy Hartmann, professor emerita of development studies, received her B.A. from Yale University and her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. Her research, writing, and lecturing focus on the intersections between population, migration, environment, and security issues. During her time at Hampshire, she served as the director of the Population and Development Program. She is the author of The America Syndrome: Apocalypse, War and Our Call to Greatness and the feminist classic Reproductive Rights and Wrongs: The Global Politics of Population Control as well as two political thrillers about the far right, The Truth about Fire and Deadly Election. She is the co-author of A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh Village and co-editor of the anthology Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. In 2015 she was a Fulbright-Nehru Distinguished Chair based in New Delhi, India. She is currently working on a novel about the opiate crisis and war on drugs.

Kasia Paprocki joined the Department of Geography and Environment in 2017. Her work addresses issues within and between the study of the political economy of development, political ecology, social movements, and agrarian change. Her research is regionally focused in South Asia, particularly Bangladesh.

Her current book project, based on over two years of ethnographic and archival research in South Asia and Europe, examines the political ecology of climate change adaptation in coastal Bangladesh.

Kasia holds a PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University. She has received fellowships and awards from the National Science Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the Social Science Research Council.

Fikret Adaman is a 2021/22 Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow and a professor of economics at Boğaziçi University. Adaman completed his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics at Boğaziçi University and his PhD at Manchester University. His research focuses on environmental economics; the relationship between food, agriculture, and economics; history of economic thought; political ecology; Turkey’s political economy; and social policies. He was the advisor to the rector and chairperson at the Department of Economics at Boğaziçi University. He has been a visiting scholar/researcher at the University of Bologna, Erasmus University, the University of Utah, Purdue University, and the University of Massachusetts. He works on the topic of social exclusion for the Turkey expert team of the European Commission. As a Mercator-IPC Senior Fellow, Adaman will focus on the relationship between transformations in the agricultural sector and the climate crisis as well as the food regime and policies.