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Alex Standen

Visiting Assistant Professor

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Contact Information

Salem Campus

Address
Eaton Hall, Office 101
900 State Street
Salem  Oregon  97301
U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6211

Biography

Alex Standen is an interdisciplinary scholar of the environment in Latin America and the US. Alex recently completed his doctorate in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also holds an MA in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. Alex’s research blends environmental history, political ecology, environmental justice, labor studies, and critical disaster studies. He is specifically interested in the transnational land reform movements that flourished in Latin America and the US during the New Deal period. Before beginning his doctorate, Alex spent a year living and working on a farm in Utuado, Puerto Rico, where he was actively involved in a number of environmental education and agroecology projects.
Willamette University

History Department

Address
Willamette University
900 State Street
Salem Oregon 97301 U.S.A.
Phone
503-370-6061 voice
503-370-6944 fax