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Lise Sedrez, an environmental historian, teaches history of the Americas. She holds a PhD in Latin American history from Stanford University (2005) and is the co-editor of the book series Latin American Landscapes, University of Arizona Press. Lise is a founding member of SOLCHA (Sociedade Latino-Americana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental); collaborates with the feminist collective Inaiá and the ASEH’s Committee on Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity; and was a fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany, in 2015–2016. Since 2017, she has been part of the interdisciplinary project Occupy Climate Change (OCC!) based at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Her research interests include urban environmental history, history of disasters, and digital history.
RCC Research Project: Cities under Water: A Comparative Environmental History of Floods in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
Selected Publications:
- with Bruno Capilé, Lorelai Kury, and Marcelo Motta, eds. Os Rios do Rio. Rio de Janeiro: Andrea Jakobson Studio, 2020.
- with Ravi Ranjan, eds. The Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- with Regina Horta Duarte. “The Wall and the Ivy: Environmental Narratives from an Urban Continent.” In A Living Past: Environmental Histories of Modern Latin America, edited by John Soluri, Claudia Leal, and José Augusto Pádua, 138–162. New York: Berghahn Books, 2018.
- with Marco Armiero, eds. A History of Environmentalism: Local Struggles, Global Histories. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014.
- with Richard C. Hoffmann, Nancy Langston, James McCann, and Peter Perdue. “AHR Conversation: Environmental Historians and Environmental Crisis.” American Historical Review 113, no. 5 (2008): 1431–1465.