Marian Ahn Thorpe is a Clinical Assistant Professor in Liberal Studies. An environmental and political anthropologist, she studies Indigenous rights and development in Latin America. Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork with Ngäbe collaborators in Panama, her work examines the application of the international Indigenous right of Free, Prior, and Informed Consent/Consultation (FPIC), which holds that Native peoples have the right to participate in development decisions that affect their lands and livelihoods. Her research demonstrates that FPIC is a multifaceted tool that states use to manage Indigenous participation in development, and that Native peoples use to negotiate rights, culture, and politics.
Marian Thorpe
Clinical Assistant Professor
Ph.D. – Rutgers University
M.A. – Rutgers University
M.E.Sc. – Yale University
Indigenous rights, human rights, development, environmental anthropology, political anthropology, Latin America