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Cristina Faiver-Serna

Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Office: Hamilton Smith Hall Room G49D, Durham, NH 03824
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Pronouns: She/her/hers

<p>I am a critical human geographer who studies the relationship between society and the environment. I am particularly interested in the impacts of environmental degradation on historically marginalized communities. My current research focuses on community health efforts to mitigate air pollution in Southern California.</p>

Courses Taught

  • GEOG 580: Human Geography
  • GEOG 581: Society, Envt and Justice
  • WS 797: Internship
  • WS 798/898: Colloq/WomenofColorFemPraxes

Education

  • Ph.D., University of Oregon
  • M.P.H., University of Michigan
  • B.A., University of Michigan

Research Interests

  • Environmental Justice
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Feminist and queer theory
  • Health Disparities
  • Human-environment geography
  • Latino studies
  • Social Geography

Selected Publications

  • Faiver-Serna, C. (2024). Laura Pulido. In M. Gilmartin, P. Hubbard, R. Kitchin, & S. Roberts (Eds.), Key Thinkers on Space and Place (Third Edition ed.). SAGE Publications Limited.

  • Faiver-Serna, C. (2024). Querida Promotora. ACME, 23(2), 133-135. doi:10.7202/1111248ar

  • Cahuas, M. C., Douglass-Jaimes, G., Faiver-Serna, C., González Mendoza, Y., Martinez Lugo, D., & Ramírez, M. M. (2023). Latinx Geographies: Opening Conversations. Acme: an international e-journal for critical geographies, 22(6), 1462-1489. Retrieved from https://acme-journal.org/index.php/acme/article/view/2286/1753

  • Bruno, T., & Faiver-Serna, C. (2022). More Reflections on a White Discipline. The Professional Geographer, 74(1), 156-161. doi:10.1080/00330124.2021.1915822

  • Faiver-Serna, C. (2021). Geographies of Environmental Justice: Capitalism, Pollution, and Public Health in Southern California. In M. Mascarenhas (Ed.), Lessons in Environmental Justice From Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter and Idle No More (pp. 147-163). SAGE Publications. Retrieved from https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/lessons-in-environmental-justice/book260893

  • Pulido, L., Bruno, T., Faiver-Serna, C., & Galentine, C. (2019). Environmental Deregulation, Spectacular Racism, and White Nationalism in the Trump Era. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109(2), 520-532. doi:10.1080/24694452.2018.1549473

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