Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

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Mindi Schneider

IBES Director of Undergraduate Studies, Associate Teaching Professor in Environment and Society
Mindi_Schneider@brown.edu
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Research Interests Agriculture, Agrarian change, Development sociology, Land, Land and environmental justice, Commodity studies, Historical sociology, Political ecology, Social reproduction and feminist political economy/ecology, Waste and discard studies

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IBES-affiliated students named 2026 Royce Fellows

Through the Swearer Center program, eight students affiliated with IBES will conduct community-engaged research spanning environmental justice, food sovereignty, conservation biology, and Indigenous land stewardship.
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Support US OCTOPUS Act to keep octopuses wild

IBES Lecturer Mindi Schneider and 99 fellow authors advocate in favor of the OCTOPUS Act: a proposed federal law that would prohibit commercial octopus aquaculture in the US and the import of commercially farmed octopus.
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