Laura Vaz-Jones , Human Geography PhD Candidate
Home Campus:
U of T St. George
PhD:
Plantation City: Women's Freedom and Fugitivity in Nineteenth-Century Salvador, Brazil
Other Degrees:
MA Human Geography, University of Toronto
BAH in Global Development Studies and Environmental Studies, Queen's University
Honours & Awards:
Vanier Scholar (2019-2021)
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2019-2021) (declined)
University of Toronto Faculty of Arts and Science Top Domestic Student Award (2017-2021)
J.B.R Whitney Award, University of Toronto Association of Geography Alumni
Supervisor(s):
Sharlene Mollett
Contact Information:
laura.vaz.jones@mail.utoronto.ca
Research Interests:
- feminist political economy
- social reproduction
- Black geographies
- Brazil
- urban theory
- intersectionality
- political ecology
Selected Publications:
Mollett, Sharlene, Vaz-Jones Laura, and Lydia Delicado Moratalla. 2020. “Feminist Political Ecologies: Race, bodies and the human,” in The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Feminist Geographies.
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