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Laura Pulido
Professor of American Studies and Ethnicity and Geography
Contact Information
Office: WPH 303
Phone: (213)740-8048
E-mail:
lpulido@usc.edu
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Education
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 Ph.D. , University of California, Los Angeles
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Description of Research
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Summary Statement of Research Interests
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Professor Pulido researches race, political activism, ethnic studies, and Los Angeles. She studies how various groups experience racial and class oppression, how these experiences differ among particular communities of color, and how they mobilize to create a more socially-just world. Asking such questions, Professor Pulido has done extensive work in the field of environmental justice, landscape studies, and uncovering the history of the
third world left.
Currently, she is working on two related projects. First, she is exploring Latino (especially ethnic Mexicans') racial identity. In particular, she is examining how the racial identity and position of Latinos has varied over space and time. Second, she has been researching the relationships between African Americans and Latinos in Los Angeles. The two studies are intimately related because it is impossible to understand the racial position of Latinos outside of their relationship to African Americans.
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Research Specialties
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(Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, 1991) Associate Professor of Geography and ASE:Race/ethnicity; social movements; political activism; Los Angeles, chicano/Latino studies; comparative ethicity
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Publications
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Book
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Pulido, L.
(2006).
Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles/University of California Press.
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Book Chapter
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Pulido, L.
(2006).
FAQs: Frequently Asked Questions on Being a Scholar/Activist". Berkeley and Los Angeles: Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics and Methods of Activist Scholarship/University of California Press.
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Journal Article
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Pulido, L.
(2007).
"A Day Without Immigrants". Antipode/Blackwell.
Vol. 39 (1), pp. 1-7.
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Honors and Awards
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USC Phi Kappa Phi Faculty Recognition Award, Award for book, "Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles", 2006-
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Winner, Association for Humanist Sociology Book Award, "Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles" , 2007-2008
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Meridian Book Award, Outstanding Scholarly Book in Geography, "Black, Brown, Yellow and Left: Radical Activism in Los Angeles" Association of American Geographers, 2006-2007
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The Hilldale Lecture, University of Wisconsin , 2006-2007
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Service to the Profession
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Editorships and Editorial Boards
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Editoral Board Member, ACME: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Critical Geographies, 2002-
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Editoral Board Member, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 2001-
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Editorial Board Member, Hagar: International Social Science Review, 2001-
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Editoral Board Member, Cultural Geography (previously Ecumem), 1999-
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Managing Board Member, American Quarterly, 2005-2008
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Editoral Board Member, Antipode, 1999-2006
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Editorial Board Member, Environment and Planning D: Society & Space, 1999-2006
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Editoral Board Member, Aztlan, 2002-2005
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Editorial Board Member, Gender, Place & Culture, 1996-1998
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