Biography
Adrián Lerner Patrón is a historian. He obtained his BA and Licenciatura from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University, where was also part of the first cohort of the Mellon Interdisciplinary Concentration in the Humanities, centred on “The technologies of Knowledge”.
He is currently a Philomathia Fellow in the Consortium for the Global South at the University of Cambridge, with a focus on “Ecologies in Place,” and a lecturer and research associate in Global History at the Free University of Berlin (on leave).
Before moving to Europe, he was the Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Urbanism and the Environment at Princeton University and a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. His research and teaching deal with environmental, social, and political issues in Latin America and from a global perspective.
He is finishing a book about the urbanization of the Amazon rainforest, titled 'Jungle Cities'.
Research
Environmental Humanities, Modern Latin America, Urban Studies, Rivers, Global History, Amazonia, Brazil, The Andes
Publications
Books Authored:
In Preparation: Jungle Cities: The Urbanization of Amazonia (Duke University Press).
2012 Indiferencias, tensiones y hechizos: medio siglo de relaciones diplomáticas entre Perú y Brasil, 1889-1945. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2012 (with Marcos Cueto).
Books Edited:
In preparation: Perú Global: Historia, política y sociedad. Lima: Universidad del Pacífico/Planeta, 2 vols. (With Alberto Vergara).
2011 Desarrollo, desigualdades y conflictos sociales: una perspectiva desde los países andinos. Lima: Instituto de Estudios Peruanos, 2011 (with Marcos Cueto).
Journal Special Issues Edited:
In preparation:
- “Nuevas Historias Urbanas del Perú” in Histórica (Perú) (with Matteo Stiglich)
- “Shaping Natural Regions: Capitalism, Environment, and the Geography of Post Colonial Peru” in Historia Ambiental de América Latina y el Caribe (HALAC) (with Javier Puente).
- “Land Use in Amazonia” in El Antropoceno como Crisis Múltiples. Perspectivas desde América Latina," edited by Olaf Kaltmeier, José-Augusto Padua, María Fernanda López y Adrián Gustavo Zarrilli (Bielefeld: CALAS, 2023)
- ““To Fixate Men to the Land:” A Steel Mill and the Urban History of Brazilian Amazonia” in Journal of Urban History, Special Issue
- “From Books to Airplanes: Material and Non-human Actors in Global Urban History, edited by Mariana Dantas and Andra Chastain (2023).
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Teaching and Supervisions
Teaching experience includes surveys on Environmental History, Design, Historical Methods, Latin America, Urban History, and Global History
