Lauren R. Pearson

Lauren Pearson

Research Areas

Critical Environments

Political Economies

Racial Geographies

Interests

Geographies of violence, historical political ecology/environmental history, settler colonialism, colonial botanical trade, fire

Contact Information

lauren.pearson@berkeley.edu

Biography

I am a Ph.D. candidate researching the phenomenon of illegally set wildfires in Sicily. My research has been supported by Trinity College's Research Grant in Modern Italian History (“Barbieri Grant”), The Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship, The Berkeley-Naples Fellowship, and the Department of Geography, University of California, Berkeley. For my doctoral work, I study principally with Professors Jake Kosek, Gillian Hart, Mia Fuller, and Diana Davis.

Education

M.A., Art History, University College London

B.A., Art History, New York University

Teaching Experence

Graduate Student Instructor, Geography C112 (Global Developments: Theory, History, Geography), UC Berkeley, Spring 2021

Graduate Student Instructor, Geography C112 (Global Developments: Theory, History, Geography), UC Berkeley, Spring 2020