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(University of Arizona, 1996); 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) (University of California, 2012), and most recently she worked 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, 2017).
She has received numerous honors, including the Presidential Achievement Award from the Association of American Geographers and Ford and Guggenheim fellowships. As part of her scholarship, Laura is deeply committed to public scholarship and popular education.
The book, A People’s Guide to Los Angeles, a radical tour guide that documents sites of racial, class, gender, and environmental struggle in the history and landscape of Los Angeles, is the basis for a book series. Working with Laura Barraclough, Wendy Cheng, and the University of California Press, there are now a dozen People’s Guide books in the pipeline (web address coming!)
Laura moved to the University of Oregon in 2016 and considers herself most fortunate to work with such wonderful students!