Marc Edelman

Marc Edelman (born 1952, New York, New York) is an academic author and professor of anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He was president of the American Ethnological Society from 2017 to 2019.

He has also taught or been a visiting researcher at the University of Costa Rica, Tashkent State University (Uzbekistan), Yale University, Princeton University, the Institute for Advanced Study, and the Instituto de Altos Estudios Nacionales (Ecuador).

Edelman received his B.A. (1975), M.A. (1978) and his Ph.D. (1985) in Anthropology from Columbia University. His research has analyzed agrarian change in Latin America, transnational social movements, rural development problems, historical and contemporary land grabbing, the rise of authoritarian populism, and the human rights of rural populations.

Books Edelman, Marc (2024). Peasant Politics of the Twenty-first Century: Transnational Social Movements and Agrarian Change. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. . Scoones, Ian; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; Baviskar, Amita; Edelman, Marc; Peluso, Nancy Lee; and Wolford, Wendy (2024). Climate Change and Critical Agrarian Studies. London: Routledge. . Scoones, Ian; Edelman, Marc; Borras Jr., Saturnino M.; Forero, Lyda Fernanda; Hall, Ruth; and Wolford, Wendy (2021). Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World. London: Routledge. .