Feb 18
Winter Lefler Lecture - Dr. John Soluri
Title: Creatures of Fashion: Animals and the Transformation of Patagonia, 1800s-2000s
Professor Soluri’s research and teaching explore the relationship between social and environmental change in Latin America. His book, Creatures of Fashion: Animals, Global Markets, and the Transformation of Patagonia (Spring 2024) examines how the commodification of wild and domesticated animals for textiles transformed Patagonia.
He is currently working with three graduate students: Francisco Javier Bonilla who is writing his dissertation on the history of water infrastructure in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Panama City; Matthew Turetsky who is researching quinoa and agrodiversity in highland Perú; and Zach Crouch who is interested in the Mexican Revolution’s transnational influences on struggles for land in the Americas.