Description
Elisabeth Jean Wood is the Crosby Professor of the Human Environment and professor of political science, international and area studies at Yale University. As of fall 2020, she is also the co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program. In this interview, Wood discusses her introduction to James C. Scott's work during graduate school and its impact on her own work; the role the Agrarian Studies Program played in her decision to come to Yale as a faculty member; the unique intellectual space of the program's colloquium and its impact on students and faculty alike; the program's interdisciplinary aspects and its larger impact in the academy; the creation of community; and hopes for the program's future.