Christopher Lesser

Christopher Lesser is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research focuses on how environmental science and management practices influence global resource distribution and their impacts on human and non-human well-being. Methodologically, he employs interdisciplinary approaches, integrating archival records, oral histories, and ecological data (soils, plant fossils, carbon isotopes).

He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Sociology of Development, Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, American Anthropologist, and Journal of Latin American Geography. Additionally, he contributes to public scholarship through outlets like NACLA, El Nuevo Día, and Categoría 5.

Currently, he leads the project Mapping Socio-Environmental Change: Digitizing and Georeferencing the Archives of the Niterói Herbarium. He is also authoring a book examining how environmental sciences have facilitated intergenerational resource accumulation in Brazil through racial, class, and gendered frameworks.

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