Nancy Lee Peluso

Nancy Peluso
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2006)
Academic background
EducationB.A., 1978, Friends World College
M.Sc., PhD., Sociology of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Cornell University
ThesisRich forests, poor people and development: forest access control and resistance in Java (1988)
Academic work
InstitutionsYale University
University of California, Berkeley

Nancy Lee Peluso is an American rural sociologist. She is the Henry J. Vaux Distinguished Professor of Forest Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.