Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Faculty Member, Instituto de História

About

Lise Sedrez is professora adjunta at the Instituto de Historia, UFRJ, and was Associate Professor at the History Department at California University, Long Beach. She is the co-editor of the book series Latin American Landscapes with the University of Arizona Press. She holds a M.S. in Environmental Policy Studies, from New Jersey Institute of Technology, and a Ph.D. in History from Stanford University, where she was awarded a Lieberman Fellowship for excellence in teaching. Lise also taught at Ramapo College, New Jersey, The College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and Faculdade da Cidade, in Rio de Janeiro, and worked for environmental non-profit organizations in Brazil, such as Greenpeace, IBASE and WW. She still keeps up-to-date with her environmental activism. Lise has published her work in Italy, Colombia, Brazil and USA. Her research interests include environmental history of Latin America, urban history, history of science and history of Brazil. She is currently writing a book on the environmental history of Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the twentieth century, for which she was awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 2010-2011.

Lise loves fencing and is a great cook—she has an award-winning tiramisu recipe. When she is not obsessively surfing the Internet, she enjoys trekking, dancing and traveling.

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