History Seminar: JUNGLE CITIES: The Urbanization of Amazonia

Convener(s): Eduardo Posada-Carbo

Speaker(s): Adrián Lerner Patrón, University of Cambridge

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Adrián Lerner is a historian of modern Latin America, especially the Andes, Brazil, and the Amazon Rainforest. He has published on issues related to the environment, urbanisation, public health, gender, violence, human rights, development, international relations, and authoritarian politics in the region.  Born and raised in Lima, Perú, he obtained his undergraduate degrees (BA and Licenciatura) in Humanities and History from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and then moved to the United States, where he received his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University. Before his current appointment at the Faculty of History, he was the Philomathia Fellow in Ecologies in Place at the Consortium for the Global South at Cambridge; Lecturer and Research Fellow in Global History at the Free University of Berlin; and the Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Urbanization and the Environment at Princeton University.  His most recent book is the edited volume Perú "Global: Explicar el Perú con el mundo" (co-edited with political scientist Alberto Vergara and published by Crítica in two volumes).