Laura Pulido
Laura Pulido is the Collins Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon where she studies race, landscape, environmental justice, and cultural memory.
She is the author of numerous books, including Environmentalism and Economic Justice: Two Chicano Struggles in the Southwest; Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles (University of California, 2006); A People’s Guide to Los Angeles (with Laura Barraclough and Wendy Cheng); and, with Jordan Camp, the posthumous publication of Clyde Woods’s, Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restoration in Post-Katrina New Orleans.
Pulido has received numerous honors, including the Presidential Achievement Award from the Association of American Geographers and Ford and Guggenheim fellowships. She was previously on the faculty of USC for over 20 years. She holds a Ph.D. in Urban Planning from UCLA.