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Monty Roper's Home PageJ. Montgomery Roper (Monty) is a cultural anthropologist specializing in the political economy of natural resource management, economic development, and indigenous peoples in Latin America. He received his B.A. from Ithaca College in 1991 with majors in Anthropology and Biology. His M.A. was done at the University of Kentucky (UK) and his Ph.D. at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt), both in Anthropology. He has also completed interdisciplinary graduate certificate programs in Environmental Systems (at UK) and in Latin American Studies (at Pitt). His dissertation was entitled "The Political Ecology of Indigenous Self-Development in Bolivia's Multiethnic Indigenous Territory". It concerns the political, economic, and social context of development failures, and the evolution of a tragedy of the commons concerning the management of commercial tree species in an indigenous territory in the Bolivian Amazon. As an applied anthropologist, Monty is interested in addressing issues of sustainable development through program and project evaluation and policy analysis and recommendation. He has written a policy paper for the World Bank on Indigenous Development in Latin America, and undertook consultant research in Bolivia on the impact of legislative reforms on forest management. His ongoing research concerns indigenous development efforts in tropical forest areas, particularly the organizational aspects of such efforts.
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