Dr. Porter is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park whose research focuses on environmental histories of Mexico and the African Diaspora, food systems, agrochemicals, and environmental in/justice. He is a board member of Rutgers' Black Ecologies Lab and Co-Designer of the Chicago Teacher's Union Environmental Justice Freedom School.
Jayson is an environmental writer and historian who researches environmental histories of Mexico, the African Diaspora, food systems, agrochemicals, and environmental justice and injustice. His book manuscript (in review with Duke University Press) focuses on the environmental history of the African Diaspora, violence, and environmental change in Guerrero, Mexico through oilseeds crops, such as cotton, sesame, and coconuts. You can find his narrative nonfiction works on black environmental history in Distillations Magazine.
Graduate students are invited to attend a teach-in workshop with Dr. Porter on environmental writing. The workshop will be at 12:30 to 2:00 pm in the Academic Building West 6051 (RCHA room). Lunch will be catered. Please use this form to RSVP in advance.