Jarvis Fisher

As a PhD student in Development Sociology, Jarvis is currently researching the political economy of rice production and agroecological interventions in Senegal. His work explores the impact that Senegalese state agricultural policy has had on agrarian social relations and rural laborers’ perspectives on the comparative value of industrial and agroecological farming methods.

 

His research has been supported by: the Einaudi Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPDP); the Fulbright U.S. Student Program; Cornell Atkinson Graduate Research Grant Program; the Qualitative and Interpretive Research Institute (QuIRI) Small Grants Program; the West African Research Association (WARA) Pre-Doctoral Fellowship; the Amit Bhatiya ’01 Global PhD Research Award; the Andrew W. Mellon Student Research Grant Program; and the Einaudi Rare and Distinctive (RAD) Language Fellowship.

 

Prior to his time at Cornell, Jarvis received his MSc in Development Studies from SOAS, University of London in 2015. In the years following his master’s degree, Jarvis managed and supervised anti-trafficking programs in West Africa and the Caribbean and developed grant proposals to support international gender equality advocacy projects.