Carmen Diana Deere

Carmen Diana Deere was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, August 1, 1945. She received a BA in International Politics and Economics from the University of Colorado, an MA in Development studies from The Fletcher School at Tufts University (1968), and a Ph.D. in Agricultural economics from the University of California, Berkeley (1978). ==Career and research==

From 1992 to 2004, she served as Director of Latin American studies and the Center for Latin America, Caribbean and Latino Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. From 2004 to 2011, she was a professor of agricultural economics and Latin American studies at the University of Florida where from 2004 to 2009, she directed the Center for Latin American Studies. She has also been a consultant for the United Nations Development Programme on Brazil (2004) and the New England Council of Latin American Studies (NECLAS). She currently participates in the editorial committee of several specialized journals such as the Journal of Agrarian Change, and associate editor of the journal, Feminist Economics. Deere currently participates in the "International Panel on Social Progress" (IPSP), convened by Amartya Sen and continues to develop research in Ecuador (FLACSO) and in Cuba with the University of Havana within the collaboration project in the agricultural sector and the international economy: challenges and opportunities for Cuba and the United States. Deere was influenced by Stephen Resnick and Richard D. Wolff, Marxist economists, and her early work with Magdalena León de Leal. == Awards and honours ==

• 1996, Bacardi Family Eminent Scholar Chair in Latin American Studies, University of Florida • 1997, Chancellor's Medal, University of Massachusetts Amherst • 2000, Fulbright-Hays scholar, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro • 2018, Silvert Award Award-winning books and papers • 2006, James A. Robertson Prize, Conference on Latin American History, for "Liberalism and Married Women’s Property Rights", best article, The Hispanic American Historical Review, 2005 • 2003, Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association, for Empowering Women • 2002, Best Book Award, NECLAS, for Empowering Women • 2002, Best Book Award, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, History Division, for Empowering Women • 2002, Best Book Award, Cuban Academy of Sciences, Social Science Division, for Historias Agrarias • 2001, Best Book Award, University of Havana, for Historias Agrarias • 1998, Joseph P. Criscenti Best Article Award, NECLAS, for "Here Come the Yankees!" • 1991, Best Book Award, NECLAS, for Household and Class Relations ==Selected works==

• Deere, Carmen Diana (1977). The development of capitalism in agriculture and the division of labor by sex: a study of the northern peruvian sierra. Michigan: University Microfilms International. • Deere, Carmen Diana; Leal, Magdalena León de (1980). Mujer y capitalismo agrario: estudio de cuatro regiones colombianas. Asociación Colombiana para el Estudio de la Población. • Deere, Carmen Diana; Leal, Magdalena León de (1982). Women in Andean agriculture: peasant production and rural wage employment in Colombia and Peru. International Labour Office. . • Leal, Magdalena León de; Deere, Carmen Diana; Marulanda, Nohra Rey de (1982). Debate sobre la mujer en América Latina y el Caribe: Sociedad subordinación y feminismo. Asociación Colombiana para el Estudio de la Población. vol. I, La Realidad Colombiana; vol. II, Las Trabajadoras del Agro; vol. III, Sociedad, Subordinación y Femenismo. Bogotá: Asociación Colombiana para el Estudio de la Población. • CIERA Rural Women's Research Team y Carmen Diana Deere (1984). "La Mujer en las Cooperativas Agropecuarias en Nicaragua". Managua: Centro de Investigación y Estudio de la Reforma Agraria. • Deere, Carmen Diana y José Luis Coraggio (1986). Expanded Spanish collection, "La Transición Difícil: El Desarrollo de los Pequeños Países Periféricos". México: Siglo XXI, 1986); reimpreso, Managua: Editorial Vanguardia, 1987. • Fagen, Richard R.; Deere, Carmen Diana (1986). Transition and Development: Problems of Third World Socialism. Monthly Review Press. . (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana y Magdalena León (1986). La Mujer y la Política Agraria en América Latina. Bogotá: Siglo XXI. • Deere, Carmen Diana (1986). "Tough Row to Hoe: Women in the Nicaraguan Agricultural Cooperatives". San Francisco: Institute for Food and Development Policy. • Deere, Carmen Diana (1987). Rural women and state policy: feminist perspectives on Latin American agricultural development. Westview Press. . (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana; Antrobus, Peggy (1990). In the shadows of the sun: Caribbean development alternatives and U.S. policy. Westview Press. . (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana (1 January 1990). Household and Class Relations: Peasants and Landlords in Northern Peru. University of California Press. . (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana (1 January 1992). Familia y relaciones de clase: el campesinado y los terratenientes en la sierra norte del Perú, 1900-1980. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. . (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana, Niurka Pérez, Cary Torres, Myriam García y Ernel González (1998). Guines, Santo Domingo and Majibacoa: sobre sus historias agrarias. Havana: Editorial de Ciencias Sociales. • Leal, Magdalena León de; Deere, Carmen Diana; Elizabeth García; V, Julio César Trujillo (1999). Género y derechos de las mujeres a la tierra en Ecuador. Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres. (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana; Leal, Magdalena León de (1999). Mujer y tierra en Guatemala. AVANCSO Asociación para el Avance de Ciencias Sociales en Guatemala. (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana; Leal, Magdalena León de (1 January 1999). Towards a gendered analysis of the Brazilian agrarian reform. Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies, University of Connecticut. (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana; Leal, Magdalena León de (1997). Women and land rights in the Latin American neo-liberal counter-reforms. Women in International Development, Michigan State University. (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana; Leal, Magdalena León de (1 January 2000). Género, propiedad y empoderamiento: tierra, Estado y mercado en América Latina. TM Editores : UN, Facultad de Ciencias Humanas. . (Text) • Deere, Carmen Diana; Leal, Magdalena León de (2001 - 2014). Empowering Women: Land and Property Rights in Latin America. University of Pittsburgh Press. . • Baranyi, Stephen, Manuel Morales y Carmen Diana Deere, (2004). Land and development in Latin America: Openings for policy research. Ottawa: The North – South Institute: International development. • Deere, Carmen Diana; Leal, Magdalena León de (2002). Género, propiedad y Empoderamiento: tierra, estado y mercado en América Latina. PUEG. . (Text) • Deer, C. D. (2005). The feminization of agriculture? Economic restructuring in rural Latin America. . • Deere, Carmen Diana y Cheryl Doss, eds. (2007). Women and the Distribution of Wealth. London and New York City: Routledge. • Deere, Carmen Diana y Frederick S. Royce, eds. (2009). Rural social movements in Latin America: Organizing for sustainable livehoods. Florida: University Press of Florida. ==References==