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Lise Nelson, Mentor
International Studies, Political Science

Maria Cortez, McNair Scholar

A political and cultural geographer, Lise Nelson received her Ph.D. from the University of Washington in 2000 and joined the faculty in the Department of Geography the same year. Her principal interests focus on rural development, social movements and democratization, immigration from Latin America into the United States, and the cultural construction of place and belonging. Prof. Nelson’s current research “explores the politics of race, place, and belonging in Woodburn, Oregon. Recent publications include “Geographies of State Power, Protest, and Women’s Political Identity Formation in Michoacán, Mexico,” Annals of the Association of American Geographers (2006); “Artesanía, Mobility and the Crafting of Indigenous Identities among Purhépechan Women in Mexico,” Journal of Latin American Geography (2006); and A Companion to Feminist Geography. London: Blackwell (with Joni Seager, eds., 2005).