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Professor Laura Lewis holds the position of Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on the history and ethnography of race in Afro-Mexico/Afro-Latin America, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Mexico. She is a co-investigator on major projects addressing climate change, water, and food security in sub-Saharan Africa, including the £5 million BRECcIA initiative. Her work spans interdisciplinary collaborations in environmental policy and cultural anthropology.
Her research interests include colonialism, nationalism, social movements, migration, transnationalism, gender, and resilience studies. Notable awards include the Erminie Wheeler-Voegelin Best Book Award for Hall of Mirrors (2003). She has conducted long-term fieldwork in rural Mexico, the U.S., and Malawi, supported by fellowships from institutions like the Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Education: Details not explicitly stated in text.
- Grants: £5M BRECcIA grant (2016-2020), RCUK GCRF grants.
- Labs/Teams: Collaborates with Environment and Geography departments on climate projects and leads the BRECcIA initiative.
Her teaching covers Latin America, migration, race and gender, and ethnography. She currently supervises PhD student Jessica Céline Louison in Modern Languages.
