Our work is supported by the UC Davis Feminist Research Institute and Davis Humanities Institute Transcollege Research Clusters. We have also been supported by the UC Davis Graduate Student Association. 

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History of the Lab

Our cluster coalesced following the Left Coast Political Ecology (LCPE) workshop held at UC Berkeley in 2018 in order to better connect burgeoning political ecologists on our campus. Since then, the PE Lab has become an exciting space of convergence for students and faculty through biweekly meetings and a growing listserv. We are graduate student founded and graduate students take on major leadership in our lab. Our group is currently comprised of students from graduate programs across campus: geography, cultural studies, ecology, anthropology, education, community development, and horticulture and agronomy. We held a writing retreat in May 2019 at the Bodega Bay Marine Laboratory where we engaged in discussions on our converging and diverging definitions of political ecology, a panel on interdisciplinary perspectives and approaches to political ecology, and graduate student workshops on subjects like post-truth, failure, and the connections between PE and environmental justice. In spring 2019 we also co-sponsored graduate student meetings with visiting political ecology scholars, including Dr. Julie Guthman (UCSC) and Dr. Jade Sasser (UCR).