Jennifer Garcia Peacock
Thomson Associate Professor of Environmental Studies
Education
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- M.A. Dartmouth College
- B.A. Mount Holyoke College
Background
I specialize in 20th-century U.S. and Latinx history, environmental history, and visual culture. I am particularly interested in issues related to environmental justice, borderlands and the American West, rural place-making and spatial formation, and community-based learning.
My research examines the ways that Chicanx cultural producers such as artists and activists have (re)shaped the cultural landscape of California's Central Valley during the second half of the 20th century through visual products such as murals, poster art, pilgrimage, altars, gardens and roadside shrines.
Teaching
- ENV 160 Environmental Justice
- ENV 203 Environmental Humanities
- ENV/HIS 256 Environmental History
- ENV 273 Art, Activism, and the Environment
- ENV/LAS 284 Latinxs and the Environment
- ENV 385 Environmental Justice
- ENV 401 Environmental Studies Seminar
- WRI 101 The American West