Dr. Mark Moritz

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Dr. Mark Moritz
Department of Anthropology
The Ohio State University
112 Lord Hall
124 W. 17th Ave.
Columbus, OH 43210
614.247.7426 (tel)
614.292-4155 (fax)
moritz.42@osu.edu

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Publications | Teaching | Research

My research focuses on the transformation of African pastoral 
systems. I have investigated how FulBe pastoralists in the Far 
North Province of Cameroon have adapted to changing ecological, 
political and institutional conditions that affect their lives and 
livelihoods. I continue to research herder-farmer conflicts, 
intensification of pastoral systems, and pastoral development.

I have recently begun a new multi-disciplinary project that will 
examine how mobile pastoralists in the Logone Floodplain of Cameroon 
coordinate their movements to avoid conflict and avoid overgrazing in 
a land tenure system that is best described as open access. My 
hypothesis is that this management system is best understood as a 
case of emerging complexity. I will test this hypothesis using 
spatial and ethnographic analyses as well as multi-agent simulations 
and analytical modeling. Undergraduate and graduate students from 
multiple disciplines can participate in this project, which is 
sponsored in part by the National Geographic Society.

Teaching Schedule 2007-2008

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