User:Lise Sedrez

Lise Sedrez is an Assistant Professor in the History Department at California State University at Long Beach. She holds an M.S. in Environmental Policy Studies from the 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 Sedrez taught Latin American History at the College of William & Mary, in Williamsburg, VA. Lise has published in Italy, Colombia, Brazil and the US. Her research interests include the environmental history of Latin America, urban history, the history of science and the history of Brazil. Her dissertation topic focuses on the role of the state in the transformation of Guanabara Bay, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in the twentieth century, and the interplay of people, nature and political institutions in the ever-changing Brazilian capital. Before her graduate studies, Lise worked for environmental non-profit organizations in Brazil, such as Greenpeace, IBASE and WWF.