Positions:

1993-present	Assistant Professor, Energy and Resources Group, and Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
1990-91	Visiting Research Scholar, Institute of Economics, Austral University of Chile, Valdivia, Chile
1985-86	Research Analyst, Institute for Food and Development Policy, San Francisco, California
1980-84	Research Analyst, Center for Health Economics Research, Inc., Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts

Awards and Honors:

1996-97	University of California, Career Development Grant
1994	Third Annual Katherine Dupre Lumpkin Prize for best dissertation, Dept. of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993-94	Ciriacy-Wantrup Postdoctoral Fellowship in Natural Resource Economics, The Graduate Division, University of California
1992	Graduate School Fellowship Recipient, Dept of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1990-91	U.S. Fulbright Program, Institute of International Education, Chile Program
1989-91	John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Scholar, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Research Interests:

Schurman spent five years working as a health economist at the Center for Health Economics Research in Boston, Massachusetts, where she published a number of articles in the health field. In 1984, she started a new career working on international development issues, and co-authored two books while at the Institute of Food and Development Policy, a San Francisco based "think tank" dedicated to food and hunger issues. Schurman's work is on natural resources and economic development particularly in Latin America. Her interests include the political economy of natural resource industries; international fisheries issues; and environment and development in Chile. Schurman 's newest project involves analyzing Japanese and Spanish strategies for gaining access to the fisheries resources of developing countries. In 1993, Schurman received the Ciriacy-Wantrup Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Natural Resource Economics at the University of California at Berkeley.

Selected Publications:

• Schurman, R.A. 1997. The future of regional cooperation in a changing economic environment: the South Pacific Island countries in the 1990s. Ocean Development and International Law 28:369-403.
• Schurman, R.A. 1997. Tuna dreams: Resource nationalism and the Pacific Islands tuna industry. Development and Change 29:107-136.
• Schurman, R.A. 1996. Chile's new entrepreneurs and the "Economic Miracle": the invisible hand or a hand from the State? Studies in Comparative International Development 31:83-109.
• Schurman, R.A. 1996. Snails, southern lake and sustainability - neoliberalism and natural resource exports in Chile. World Development 24:1695-1709.
• Barham, B., M. Clark, E. Katz and R.A. Schurman. 1992. Non traditional exports in Latin America: Towards an appraisal. Latin American Research Review S92:43-82.
• Schurman, R.A. and B. Sheehan. 1992. Chiloé: An island wrestles with free market forces. North American Congress on Latin America. Report on the Americas.

• Overfishing: Causes and consequences: A review of the ecologist's special issue. Capitalism, Nature, Socialism No. 25 (Spring 1996).
• The bay shrimpers of Texas: Rural fishermen in a global economy, by R.L. Maril. Contemporary Sociology - A Journal of Reviews 25:644-645.