1. Idaho State University
Department of Anthropology
921 South 8th Ave, Stop 8005.
Pocatello, ID.
83209-8005
Tel: (208) 282-2745
e-mail: trawpaul@isu.edu
NAME Paul Trawick
JOB TITLE Associate Professor and Chair
NATIONALITY U.S.A.
QUALIFICATIONS Ph.D. in Anthropology, Yale University, with Distinction, 1994;
M.A in Anthropology/Minor in Statistics, University of Texas at
Austin;
B.S in Anthropology and Psychology, University of Oregon
(with two years of prior study in both disciplines at Reed
College)
LANGUAGES English, Spanish
MEMBERSHIP IN
PROFESSIONAL
BODIES
Member of American Anthropological Association (AAA)
Member and Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology.
Member of the Anthropology and the Environment Section of
the AAA
Member of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean
Anthropology of the AAA
Member of the International Association for the Study of the
Commons
Founding Member of the UK Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change Committee.
RESEARCH INTERESTS AND EXPERTISE: ethnographic research experience in the
Andes, Latin America, and Spain in the following fields:
o Environmental and Ecological Anthropology
o Economic Anthropology
o Political Economy
o Peasant Studies
o Institutions and Common-property Resources
o Irrigation and Water Management
o Sustainable Development
o Water Policy

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PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
2005 -2012 Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology, Department of Natural
Resources, School of Environmental Science and Technology, Cranfield
University, United Kingdom.
1997-2004 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Kentucky.
1996-1997 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Fall 1996 Consultant, and author of report on water reform and the indigenous
communities of Peru and Ecuador, for the Inter-American Development Bank,
Washington, D.C.
Spring
1996
Lecturer, Dept. of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
Maryland.
Jan. 1996 Consultant and Expositor, at an International Conference on Water Policy in
Ecuador, Inter-American Development Bank, Washington D.C.
Fall 1995 Visiting Lecturer, at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia.
Spring
1993
Consultant, and author of published report on water reform and the alleviation
of poverty in the Peruvian highlands, at the World Bank, Washington D.C.
Fall 1993 Consultant, and organizer of a seminar for the World Bank and the Brazilian
government on water reform in Brazil, at the World Bank, Washington D.C.
RECENT RESEARCH GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND CONTRACTS
Jan. 2013-
Jan. 2016
“Innovations to Promote Growth among Small-scale Irrigators in Africa and
Asia: An Ethnographic and Knowledge-exchange Approach”, a grant awarded
to me (the PI and author) by the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council
(ESRC), and the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) in
their joint Programme on Economic Growth, which was ultimately turned over
to collaborators at the School of Global Studies and the Department of
Anthropology at the University of Sussex in the UK. ($435,000).
Oct. 2005-
March 2006
“Sustainable Development as a Collective-Choice Problem”; a contract
awarded by the UK’s Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs
(DEFRA) in their program on Innovative Methods for Influencing
Behaviours and Assessing Success. ($44,800)

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June 2003-
Aug. 2004
“The Moral Economy of Water: A Cross-Cultural Study of Principles for
Successfully Governing the Commons”, a Research and Writing Grant
from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, to support
comparative ethnographic research on community-managed irrigation
systems in Spain ($75,000).
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PARTICIPATION IN INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROJECTS
2010-2013 Collaborative Project on Flood Resilience in Urban Areas (CORFU): an
interdisciplinary international project that looked at advanced and novel strategies for improved
flood management in 8 major cities around the world; funded by the European Commission
under their 7th
Framework Programme and carried out by a large team of researchers from
universities and research centres throughout Europe and Asia.
2011-2013 Investing in Effective Technologies for Sustainable WASH Services in Sub-Saharan
Africa (WASHTech): a research project on sustainable water and hygiene services, involving
national and international NGO’s, academic institutions (including Cranfield University) and
training centres in Africa and Europe, co-funded by the European Commission under their 7th
Framework Programme.
2007-2008 The Formation of Water Abstractor Groups among English Farmers: a project that
attempted to replicate the recent formation, through collective action, of local water-abstractor
groups by farmers in south-eastern England, in response to the growing scarcity of water for
irrigation (carried out by a team from Cranfield University and the UK Irrigation Association,
funded by grants from the UK Environment Agency and the East of England Development
Agency)
2007-2009 Rural Proofing of Flood Risk Management: a six-month project, carried out by a
team from Cranfield, which assessed the impact of the extreme flood events of the summer of
2007--floods thought to have been attributable to climate change--on rural livelihoods and on
rural society in the UK--in order to make recommendations for more effective mitigation of such
impacts in the future (funded by grants from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council
[ESRC] and the Council on Rural Communities).
2006-2009 The Integrated Management of Floodplains: a project carried out by teams from
Cranfield University and the Open University which assessed the long-term performance of eight
local flood-management schemes in three districts of rural England (funded by a major grant
from the ESRC in their programme on Rural Economy and Land Use [RELU])
2006-2009 Evaluating Options for Economically, Socially and Ecologically Sustainable
Agriculture: carried out by teams from Cambridge University, Cranfield University and the
University of Reading, this project explored ways of increasing enrolment by UK farmers in
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thereby enhance the provision of vital ecosystem functions (funded by a major grant from the
ESRC in their programme on Rural Economy and Land Use [RELU]).
PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS IN PRINT
Trawick, Paul B (2003); The Struggle for Water in Peru: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean
Commons. Stanford University Press. (nominated for the 2003 Margaret Mead Award of the
American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology) 350 pp.
BOOKS IN PRESS
Trawick, Paul B. (in press) The Moral Economy of Water: Equity and Sustainability in Social
Evolution, a book that examines striking commonalities among the institutions governing
successful farmer-managed irrigation systems in Peru, Spain, and other countries, arguing that
the systems conform to a single model that has evolved independently in diverse settings
throughout the world as an optimal way of coping with water scarcity. To be published in the fall
of 2017 by Routledge Press and Taylor and Francis Group, the manuscript consists of revised
versions of a series of articles published originally in American Anthropologist, Human Ecology,
the Journal of Political Ecology, World Development, Water, and Current Anthropology.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Trawick, Paul and Alf Hornborg (2015) “Revisiting the Image of Limited Good: On
Sustainability, Thermodynamics, and the Illusion of Creating Wealth”. Current Anthropology
56 (1): 1-27.
Trawick, Paul, Mariela Ortega Reig and Guillermo Palau Salvador (2014a) “Encounters with the
Moral Economy of Water: Convergent Evolution in Valencia”. WIREs: Water. Vol.1(1):87-110.
Ortega Reig, Mar, Guillermo Palau Salvador, Maria Cascant, Javier Benitez-Buelga, David
Badella, and Paul Trawick (2014b) “The Integrated Use of Surface, Ground and Recycled
Wastewater in Adapting to Drought in the Traditional Irrigation System of Valencia”.
Agricultural Water Management, Vol. 133, Pp. 55-64.
I. R. Cooke, E.H.A. Mattison, E. Audsley, A.P. Bailey, R.P. Feckleton, A.R. Graves, J. Morris,
S.A. Queensborough, D.J. Sandars, G. M. Siriwardena, P. Trawick, A. Watkinson, W.J.
Sutherland (2013) “Aversion and Crop Complexity Empirical Test of an Agricultural Landscape
Model: The Importance of Farmer Preference for Risk. Sage Open 04/2013: 3(2).
Holman, I. P. and P. Trawick (2011), “Developing Adaptive Capacity within Groundwater
Abstraction Management Systems”. Journal of Environmental Management 92(6):1542-1549.

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Fontein, Maarten, James Webster and Paul Trawick (2010) “Multiple-use Water Supply Systems
– Do the Claims Stack Up? Evidence from Bangladesh”. Waterlines. 29(1): 52-72
Cooke, Ira, S. Queensborough, E. Mattison, A. Bailey, D. Sandars, A. Graves, J. Morris, P.
Atkinson, P. Trawick, R. Freckleton, A. Watinson and W.J. Sutherland (2009) ”Integrating
Socio-economics and Ecology: A Taxonomy of Quantitative Methods and a Review of Their
Use in Agro-ecology”. Journal of Applied Ecology 46(2): 269-277.
Leathes, Willaim, J. Knox, M. Kay, P. Trawick and J. Rodriguez-Dias (2008) “Farmer
Cooperation in Managing Water Resources: The Emergence of Water Abstractor Groups in
England”. Irrigation and Drainage 57: 322-331.
Leathes, W., J. Knox, M. G. Kay, P. Trawick, and J.A. Rodriguez (2008) “Developing UK
Farmers’ Institutional Capacity to Defend Their Water Rights and Effectively Manage Limited
Water Resources”. Irrigation and Drainage 57: 322-331.
Paul Vaughan, Matthew Cook and Paul Trawick (2007) “A Sociology of Product Reuse:
Deconstructing the Milk Bottle”, Sociologia Ruralis 47(2): 120-134.
Trawick, Paul (2005); “Going with the Flow: The State of Contemporary Studies of Water
Management in Latin American”, invited review essay for the Latin American Research
Review. Vol. 40(3): 443-456.
Trawick, Paul (2003) “Against the Privatization of Water: An Indigenous Model for Improving
Existing Laws and Successfully Governing the Commons”. World Development 31(6): 977-996.
Trawick, Paul (2002) “Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean Commons”, Journal of Political
Ecology. Vol 9, pp. 35-68.
Trawick, Paul (2002) “Trickle Down Theory, Andean Style: Traditional Irrigation Practices
Provide a Lesson in Sharing”. Natural History 111(8): 60-65. Invited article, also featured on the
magazine’s web page, October 2002 issue (www.naturalhistorymag.com).
Trawick, Paul (2002) “The Moral Economy of Water: General Principles for Successfully
Governing the Commons”. GAIA: Ecological Perspectives in Science, the Humanities and
Economics. Vol.11: 191-194.
Trawick, Paul (2001) “The Moral Economy of Water: Equity and Antiquity in the Andean
Commons”. American Anthropologist 103 (2): 361-379.
Trawick, Paul (2001) “Successfully Governing the Commons: Principles of Social Organization
in an Andean Irrigation System”. Human Ecology 29 (1): 1-25.
Trawick, Paul (1999) “La Nueva Ley de Aguas: Una Alternativa Indígena a Las Reformas
Propuestas”, in Debate Agrario: Analisis y Alternativas, Numero 28, pp 85-102. Lima, Peru:
Centro Peruano de Estudios Sociales (CEPES).

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Richard Burger, Frank Asaro, Paul Trawick and Fred Stross (1998) “The Alca Obsidian Source:
The Origin of Raw Material for Cuzco Type Obsidian Artifacts”, Andean Past, Vol.5: 185-202.
Trawick, Paul (1998) “La Privatizacion del Agua: Alternativa Andina para una Nueva Ley de
Aguas”, QueHacer, Vol. 115, Pp. 36-41. Lima, Peru: DESCO.
Trawick, Paul (1994) “Historia de la Irrigacion y Conflictos de Clases en la Sierra”, Debate
Agrario: Analysis y Alternativas, No 19, Pp. 21-44. Lima, Peru.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES OR TEXTBOOKS
Trawick, Paul (2016) “On the Magical Worldview of Capitalists”. In E. Paul Durrenberger and
Suzan Erem, authors, Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st
Century, 3rd Edition.
New York: Paradigm Publishers and Oxford University Press.
Trawick, Paul (2012) “Class and Consciousness in the ‘Anti-global’ South: On Poverty, Climate
Change, and the Illusion of Creating Wealth”, in Paul Durrenberger, Ed., The Anthropological
Study of Class and Consciousness. Denver: University Press of Colorado. Pp. 105-147.
Trawick, Paul (2011) “Adapting Collectively to Water Scarcity: Encounters with the Moral
Economy of Water”, Chapter 5 in L. Bunclark, R. Carter, V. Casey, S. Day and D. Guthrie, Eds.
Managing Water Locally: An Essential Dimension of Community Water Development.
London: Institution of Civil Engineers, Oxfam GB, and WaterAid. Pp. 49-54.
Trawick, Paul (2010) “Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: General Principles for
Successfully Managing the Commons”, in Peter Brown and Jeremy J. Schmidt, Eds., Water
Ethics: Foundational Readings for Students and Professionals. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Pp. 155-166.
Posthumus, H., J. Morris, T. Hess, P. Trawick, D. Neville, E. Phillips and M. Wysoki (2008)
“Impacts of the Summer 2007 Floods on Agriculture in England”, In P. Samuels, S. Huntingdon,
W. Allsop, and J. Harrop, Eds., Flood Risk Management: Research and Practice. CRC Press /
Balkema,
Trawick, Paul, (2008) “Reading History in an Irrigated Landscape: The Drama of the Commons
in the Andes”; in L. Cliggett and C. Pool, Eds, Economies and the Transformation of
Landscapes. Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series. New York: Altamira Press.
Pp. 47-76.
Trawick, Paul (2008) “Scarcity, Equity, and Transparency: General Principles for Successfully
Governing the Water Commons”, in E. Wiegandt, Ed., Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources
of Knowledge. Advances in Global Change Research. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer Press.
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Trawick Paul. (2007) “Trickle-Down Theory, Andean Style: Traditional Irrigation Practices
Provide a Lesson in Sharing”, reprinted in Faces of Anthropology: A Reader for the 21st
Century, 5th
Edition. New York: Prentice-Hall.
Trawick, Paul (2004) “La Economia Moral del Agua: Principios ‘Universales’ para Gobernar
con Exito el Comun”, en La Junta de Andalucia, Eds., Jornadas sobre Agua y Globalización en
el Mediterraneo: XI Congreso Mundial de Agua, Madrid: Grupo Español de la Asociación
Internacional de Recursos de Aguas, y Instituto Geológico Minero de España.
Trawick, Paul (1995) “Water Reform and Poverty in the Peruvian Highlands”, in World Bank
Report No. 13642-PE: Peru: A User-based Approach to Water Management and Irrigation
Development, M. Thobani, Editor. Washington D.C: World Bank. Annex B, Pp. 1-20.
PUBLISHED REPORTS AND TECHNICAL REPORTS
Morris, J., H. Posthumus, P. Trawick, T.M. Hess, D. Neville, E. Phillips, M. Wysoky (2008)
“Impacts of the Summer 2007 Floods on Rural Communities in England.” Cranfield University.
Report to the Commission for Rural Communities, Cheltenham, U.K.
Trawick, Paul, Joe Morris, Helena Posthumus and Mathew Cook (2006) “Sustainable
Development as a ‘Collective Choice’ Problem”, in Behaviour Change: A Series of Practical
Guides, Number 3. UK Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),
published on their Sustainable Development Network website.
Trawick, Paul, Joe Morris, Helena Posthumus and Matthew Cook (2006) “Sustainable
Development as a “Collective-choice” Problem: Theoretical and Practical Implications of
Success in Locally Managed Irrigation”, Final Report for Defra’s Programme on Innovative
Methods for Influencing Behaviours and Assessing Success, published on their Sustainable
Development Network website.
Trawick, Paul (2005) Final Report on “The Moral Economy of Water: A Cross-Cultural Study of
Principles for Successfully Governing the Commons” for the John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation on Research and Writing Grant #02-76173 in their Program on Global
Security and Sustainability.
BOOK REVIEWS
Trawick, Paul (2004) “Review of The Articulated Peasant: Household Economies in the Andes”
by Enrique Mayer. Ethnohistory 52(1): 235-237.
Trawick, Paul (2002) “Review of Water and Power in Highland Peru”, by Paul Gelles,
American Anthropologist 104(1): 355-356.
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INVITED LECTURES AND OTHER PRESENTATIONS
March 2nd,
2013
“Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: Convergent Evolution versus
Diffusion in the Andes, in Valencia, and in Other Parts of the World”; invited
presentation for the Global Perspectives Symposium and Workshop, New
Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Jan. 21st,
2013
“Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water: Convergent Evolution in the
Andes, in Valencia, and in Other Parts of the World”; invited presentation at
the International Expert Consultation on Water Governance and the Role of
Tenure and Rights in Coping with Agricultural Water Scarcity, Headquarters,
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy.
Oct. 24th,
2009
“La Economía Moral del Agua: La Robustéz y el Éxito en el Uso de las Aguas
en la Huerta de Valencia”, invited paper given at an international workshop,
The Huerta of Valencia: Past, Present and Future, sponsored by the Dept. of
Agronomy of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain.
Nov. 26th
,
2008
“The Moral of Water: A Model for Optimizing Irrigation Outcomes under
Conditions of Scarcity”, invited paper given at the School of Social Change
and Human Evolution, Arizona State University, in collaboration with ASU’s
Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity
Aug. 6-8,
2008
“Best Practices for Dealing with Scarcity in Irrigation: Ethnographic
Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water”, an address given at the
International Expert Exchange on Issues and Opportunities arising from
Emerging Trends in Mainstream Water Management, organized by the
Institute of Advanced Studies, United Nations University, at the Garma
Festival in Gulkala, Australia.
October
22nd
, 2007
“Evolutionary Convergence among Irrigation Systems Successfully
Adapted to Water Scarcity”, London School of Economics Geography
Department and the Centre for Environmental Studies and Water
Management.
Dec. 3rd
,
2006
“Beyond Privatization and the Water Wars: Where is the Anti-global
South Taking Us in Water Management?, opening statement and panel
debate for an International Development Summit, sponsored by the
Programme of International Relations at Warwick University.
Nov.10,
2006
“Sustainable Development as a Collective Choice Problem”, lecture for the
UK’s Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFRA),
Whitehall, London.
Oct. 31st
,
2006.
“On Scarcity, Equity and Transparency: Encounters with the Moral
Economy of Water”, a lecture sponsored by the Dept. of Geography, the
Latin American Studies Programme, and the Oxford University Centre for
the Environment, Oxford University.

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Oct. 19th
2006
“The Moral Economy of Water: Successfully Governing the Commons in
the Andes, Spain, and Other Parts of the World”, given at the 5th
International Workshop of the International Human Dimensions of Global
Environmental Change Program (IHDP), in Chang Mai, Thailand..
Oct. 17,
2006
“Integrated Multi-level Governance: Customary Water Law and Beyond”,
5th
International Workshop of the International Human Dimensions of
Global Environmental Change Program (IHDP).
April 20-23,
2005
“Reading History in an Irrigated Landscape: The Drama of the Commons
in the Andes”, invited paper at a conference on The Economic
Transformation of Landscapes, the 2005 Annual Meeting of the Society
for Economic Anthropology, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20-23,
2005.
Oct 8-11
2002
“The Moral Economy of Water: ‘Universal’ Principles for Successfully
Governing the Commons” invited paper given at the international
conference, Mountains: Sources of Water, Sources of Knowledge, at the
Kurt Bosch University Institute, Sion, Switzerland.
July 15
2002
“Against the Privatization of Water: An Andean Model for Local
Autonomy in Water Management”, invited lecture given before the Social
Science Faculty of the National University of San Augustin in Arequipa,
Peru.
June 20
1999
“A History of Irrigation in the Andes”, invited lecture given before the
Social Science Faculty of the National University of San Agustin,
Arequipa, Peru.
29-30 Jan
1996
“Traditional Water Management and the Privatization of the Resource:
Lessons form Peru”, invited paper presented at an international conference
on Strategies for Water Resource Management in Ecuador, at the Inter-
American Development Bank, Washington D.C.
RECENT CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Nov.23rd,
2013
“Encounters with the Moral Economy of Water”, paper presented at the 112th
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL.
July 15,
2008
“The Unity Underlying Diversity in Irrigation: Contraction and Convergence
in Social Evolution”, paper at the 12th
Biennial Conference of the International
Association for the Study of Common Property, Cheltenham, England.
Dec. 28th
,
2007
“Class and Consciousness in the Anti-global South: On Poverty, Global
Warming, and the Illusion of Creating Wealth,” paper given at the 106th

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Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington,
DC.
Nov. 13,
2007
“The Unity underlying Diversity in Irrigation: Convergence in the Evolution of
Locally-managed Systems Successfully Adapter to Water Scarcity”,
International Conference on Adaptive and Integrated Water Management
(CAIWA), Basel, Switzerland.
April 6-10,
2005
“Coercion and Resistance in a ‘Free Market’: The Impact of Chile’s 1981
Water Code on Peasant Communities in the Andes”, paper given at the Annual
Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
9-13 June
2003
“The Moral Economy of Water: ‘Universal’ Principles for Successfully
Governing the Commons”, paper given at the Third International Conference
on Watershed Management in Latin America, Arequipa, Peru.
23 Nov.
2002
“Reading History in the Landscape: Comedy and Tragedy in the Andean
Commons”, paper presented at a session, organised and chaired by the author,
at the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
New Orleans, L.A.
7 Sept.
2002
“’Universal’ Principles for Successfully Governing the Water Commons?”
presented at the conference Environment, Resources and Sustainability: Policy
Issues for the 21st Century, sponsored by the American Anthropological
Association Public Policy Committee, University of Georgia.
PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES
Dr. Bonnie McCay, Professor, Dept. of Human Ecology, Cook College, Rutgers University,
Cook Office Building, Room 202, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901-8520;
Tel. (732) 932-9153, ext. 314; E-mail: mccay@aesop.rutgers.edu
Dr. Norman Whitten, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, 109 Davenport Hall, 607 S. Mathews, M/C 148, Urbana IL. 61801, phone
217-244-3514, e-mail: nwhitten@illinois.edu
Dr. E. Paul Durrenberger, Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State
University, 409 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 16802-3404; Phone: 814-863-2694
Fax: 814-863-1474; E-mail: epd2@psu.edu
Dr. Mark Kibblewhite, Professor of Soil Science, Dept. of Environmental Science and
Technology, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK, MK 45 0AL, Tel. +44 (0)1234 758015; E-
mail: m.kibblewhite@cranfield.ac.uk.