Professor Laura Pulido

Laura Pulido is the Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon, where she researches white supremacy, environmental justice, Latinx studies, and cultural memory. In addition to her current role, she taught at the University of Southern California for over 20 years and served as a Centennial Professor in Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics.

Pulido has published six books, including Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest (University of Arizona Press, 1996); Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (University of California Press, 2006); and A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng) (University of California Press, 2012).

She also collaborated with Jordan Camp to posthumously complete Clyde Woods’s Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restoration in Post-Katrina New Orleans (University of Georgia Press, 2017).

She has received numerous honors, including election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, designation as an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, the Cullum Geographical Medal from the American Geographical Society, the Presidential Achievement Award from the Association of American Geographers, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Her current project, Monumental Denial: An Atlas of U.S. Cultural Memory and White Innocence, is forthcoming with Oregon State University Press.