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Peter Herlihy
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320 Bailey Hall /202 Lindley Hall
herlihy@ku.edu
 
 
   
Current Research

Communal land titling and tenure systems in Mexico

 
Current Projects

Herlihy edited a volume with Greg Knapp (UT-Austin, Geography) on participatory mapping.

He is presently editing a volume with Kent Mathewson (LSU, Geography) and Craig Revels (Portland State, Geography) honoring the Latin Americanist geographer William V. Davidson.

He did preliminary field work on communal land titling in Loreto, Peru and La Mosquitia, Nicaragua between February and August 2004.

Peter will be researching communal land titling in Mexico while teaching at the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí from January to July 2005 under a Fulbright-Garcia Robles Grant.

 
Research Interests

Tropical rain forest peoples in Latin America, especially Central America; specific research regions include the Huasteca, La Mosquitia, Darién, and Loreto; research interests include cultural and political ecology, participatory research and participatory mapping, nature conservation and indigenous land right.

 
Selected Publications

Herlihy, P. H. and G. Knapp (2003) "Maps of, by, and for the Peoples of Latin America," Human Organization 62(4):303-314.
Herlihy, P. H. (2003). "Participatory Research Mapping of Indigenous Lands in Darién, Eastern Panama," Human Organization 62(3):315-331.
Herlihy, P. H. (2001). "Indigenous and Ladino Peoples of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras," in Endangered Peoples of Latin America: Struggles to Survive and Thrive. Edited by S. C. Stonich. Greenwood Publishing Group. Pp. 100-120. (Details the participatory research zoning that is partially summarized in CBNRM Case Studies.

 
Courses Taught

GEOG 100 : World Regional Geography: The Developing World
GEOG 791 : Latin American Regions: Central American Lands and Peoples

 
Education
Ph.D. Louisiana State (1986)