Anna M. Lawrence

Anna M. Lawrence is a Lecturer and PhD graduate in Geography at the University of Cambridge, specializing in historical and cultural geographies of plant-human relations. Her work bridges Critical Plant Studies, biopolitics, and postcolonial analysis.

• BA (Double First Class), MPhil (Distinction), PhD in Geography (University of Cambridge)
• Focus on Victorian botanical cultures, settler colonialism, and contemporary environmental crisis
• Key publications in Progress in Human Geography and Journal of Historical Geography
• Recipient of AHRC funding and multiple institutional scholarships

Her research traces how plants shaped and were shaped by social, political, and colonial frameworks in 19th-century Britain, using archival bricolage to center vegetal agency. Articles reveal intersections of morality, domesticity, and commodity systems through flowers like mignonette.

• Active in editorial and research group leadership (Vital Geographies, International Journal of Carnival Arts)
• Musical Director of Cambridge University Steelpan Society, exploring cultural appropriation in Trinidadian steelband history