Jennifer Lawrence
Professor of Practice
- Website: www.jenniferleighlawrence.com
Bio
Jennifer Lawrence received her Ph.D. in Social, Ethical, and Cultural Thought from Virginia Tech. Her research centers on the political economy of socio-environmental disasters and the contradictory practices and processes of accumulation by dispossession related to extraction, and her work has been published in numerous book chapters and articles. She also has co-edited two books, "The Resilience Machine" (2018) and "Biopolitical Disaster" (2017). She has worked in several political and non-governmental capacities on a range of international issues, and in 2021 she was selected as one of three scholars funded to research how policy expertise can be applied to contemporary social problems.