Please join Penn Anthropology to welcome Marisa Solomon (Barnard College) on Monday, September 15th at 12:00 PM.

More details forthcoming. 

Solomon’s work looks at the durability of racism and its many material forms: toxicity’s movement through soil and bodies, the placement of landfills, waste infrastructure, and the technocratic planning and management of Black life and death. Attentive to the ways coloniality and anti-blackness are sedimented into the landscape, her work focuses on how Black improvisation with waste's form and meaning upend environmental thinking—including the raced, classed, and gendered stewards to whom the earth supposedly belongs. She has published on the materiality of waste and anti-Black histories of urban planning and gentrification in the Journal of International Labor and Working-Class History. She is the co-director of the Black Atlantic Ecologies project at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference, where she is affiliated with the Earth Institute.