Christopher Lesser

Christopher Lesser is an environmental geographer working in the field of global studies. His research analyses how practices of environmental science and management affect the uneven accumulation of global resources understood as essential to more-than-human well-being. Methodologically, his work assembles an expanded archive, including manuscripts and oral histories as well as records inscribed in soils, plant fossils, and carbon isotopes. As a scholar in the trans-disciplinary fields of environmental and global studies, he has published peer-reviewed articles in multiple journals including Sociology of Development, the Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences, American Anthropologist, and the Journal of Latin American Geography. He has also produced public-facing scholarship for publications such as NACLA, El Nuevo Día, and Categoría 5. He is currently a principal investigator with the project “Mapping Socio-Environmental Change: Digitizing and Georeferencing the Archives of the Niterói Herbarium.” He is also working on a book exploring how environmental sciences have enabled the intergenerational accumulation of environmental resources in Brazil along lines of race, class, and gender.