Claiton Da Silva
Carson Fellow
Environment
Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
Germany
Biography
Claiton Marcio da Silva currently teaches at the Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul (UFFS) in Santa Catarina, Brazil. His studies on the environment, society, and modernization of Brazilian agriculture began in 2002. He completed his MA in history at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC) with a thesis on rural youth in Southern Brazil. At Casa de Oswaldo Cruz (COC/Fiocruz), his doctoral dissertation explored the work of Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association for Economic and Social Development (AIA). Since then, his main topic of research has focused the US influence in Latin America in terms of agricultural experiments. At UFFS, he teaches undergraduate courses in interdisciplinary topics such as history, agronomy, geography, and environmental engineering, among others. He also teaches in the master's program at UFFS, where he supervises projects related to environment and society. His book about the AIA was published in 2015.
Research Interest
Science, Environment, and Society: Transformations of Brazilian Biome Cerrado (1950–1990)
