Laura Vaz-Jones , Human Geography PhD Candidate

Home Campus:
U of T St. George

PhD:
An Intersectional Right to the City: Afro-descendent Domestic Worker Struggles in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

Other Degrees:
MA Human Geography, University of Toronto
BAH in Global Development Studies and Environmental Studies

Honours & Awards:
Vanier Scholar (2019-2021)
SSHRC (2014-2015)
RBC Fellowship in Public and Economic Policy (2014-2015)

Supervisor(s):
Sharlene Mollett

Contact Information:

laura.vaz.jones@mail.utoronto.ca

Research Interests:

• feminist political economy
• urban theory
• right to the city
• intersectionality
• critical race theory
• political ecology

Selected Publications:

Vaz-Jones, Laura. 2018. “Struggles over Land, Livelihood, and Future Possibilities: Reframing Displacement through Feminist Political Ecology.” Signs  43(3): 711-735.

Research Clusters:
Political Ecology, Political Spaces