Maron E. Greenleaf

Maron E. Greenleaf serves as Assistant Professor affiliated with the Ecology, Evolution, Environment & Society (EEES) PhD Program at Dartmouth College. Her interdisciplinary work bridges cultural anthropology, political ecology, and sociolegal studies to examine human-environment relations amid climate change and biodiversity loss crises.

Her educational foundation includes:

• B.A. in Political Science from Yale University
• J.D. from New York University School of Law
• Ph.D. in Anthropology from Stanford University

Greenleaf's research critically investigates green capitalism, carbon credit systems, deforestation, and environmental restoration across Brazil, the United States, and United Kingdom. She analyzes how market-based environmental solutions reshape land governance, social inclusion, and everyday human-nature relationships, with particular focus on the political economy of nature-based solutions and energy transitions.

Her publication trajectory, highlighted by the 2024 book Forest Lost, demonstrates consistent engagement with carbon markets and environmental governance in the Amazon basin. Recent works increasingly connect energy justice frameworks with restoration practices, reflecting an evolving focus on temporal dimensions of ecological repair in postindustrial contexts like England.

Greenleaf actively contributes to public discourse through outlets like The Conversation, translating complex socioecological issues for broader audiences while maintaining rigorous scholarly engagement with political ecology and environmental anthropology.