About Laura 

I am a cultural anthropologist and writer interested in the politics of environmental change and conservation.  My work contributes to theoretical discussions in political ecology, environmental anthropology, as well as post-humanist philosophy.  I have conducted ethnographic research in the Florida Everglades, the Fuegian Archipelago of Chile, and with urban communities in the United States. I am currently writing a book about the ethics and politics of saving species from extinction, focused particularly on birds. I am on the faculty in the Department of Anthropology at Dartmouth College and am affiliated with Dartmouth's Program in Latin American, Latino and Caribbean Studies. My work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.