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Lise Fernanda Sedrez
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lfsedr@wm.edu
www.sedrez.com
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1184 Jamestown Rd #47
Williamsburg, VA 23185
USA
(757) 564-5831
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Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History
James Blair Hall 303
The College of William & Mary
Williamsburg, VA 23185
USA
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Education
- Ph.D in History, Stanford University, 2004
Title: The Bay of All Beauties: State and Nature in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1875-1975
- M.A. in Humanities, 2003, Stanford University
- M.S. in Environmental Policy Studies, 1998, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Graduate Degree in Environmental Studies - Ecology, Culture and Society, 1994, Religion Studies Institute (ISER)/European Community, Brazil
- B.A. in History, 1991, Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-RJ), Brazil
Professional Experience
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Visiting Assistant Professor, History Department, College of William & Mary. Williamsburg, VA
History 132. History of Modern Latin American History. Fall 2004
History 211. Environmental History of Latin America. Fall 2004
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Instructor, History Department, Stanford, CA
History 67S. Slaves, Samba, and Sewage: Urban Life in 19th-Century Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Winter 2004.
History 276. Environmental History of Latin America. Spring 2004
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Teaching Workshop Coordinator, History Department. Stanford, CA
Organized workshops for first-time Teaching Assistants.
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Lecturer, Charis Corporation. Pleasanton, CA
Trained executives from American companies in process of transferring to Brazil on cultural shock, gender roles, culture, society and politics in Brazil.
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Teaching Assistant, History Department. Stanford, CA
History 080 – Culture, Politics and Society in Latin America, Prof. John Wirth, 2000, 2001.
History 180 – Twentieth Century Brazil, Prof. John Wirth.
History 176 – Colonial Latin America, Prof. Zephyr Frank.
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Research Assistant, History Department. Stanford, CA
Assisted prof. Herbert Klein in research on Brazilian Trade in Rio de Janeiro (1823-1870)
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Research Assistant, New Jersey Insitute of Technology. Newark, NJ
Assisted Dr. Nancy Coppola on the education and training task team for the Sustainable Green Manufacturing Project, US Department of Defense/NJIT.
Assisted Dr. John Opie on environmental policy and history, for his textbook “Nature’s Nation.”
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Assistant Program Coordinator of the Environmental Department, Institute of Religion Studies. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Coordinated a network of environmental grassroots organizations to elaborate the Rio de Janeiro’s Agenda 21, according to the blueprint suggested by the United Nations. Co-coordinated the updating of the Brazilian Database of Environmental Organizations, sponsored by World Wildlife Foundation. Wrote grant proposals and worked on fund-raising.
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Associate Researcher, IBASE-Brazilian Institute of Socio-Economic Analyses. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Co-coordinated of the Workshop "Sustainability: non-governmental perspectives", sponsored by the German Green Party. Co-authored discussion text for the same workshop, with special focus on gender and environmental issues.
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Forest Campaign Assistant Coordinator, Latin America Greenpeace. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Facilitated the coordination of a network of 40 environmental non-governamental organizations in the Amazon rainforest in a campaign against predatory logging. Assisted coordination of the Greenpeace offices in Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Santiago del Chile, Buenos Aires and San Francisco. Mediated the contacts between Greenpeace campaigners and media. Managed the budget and accounting for the 1994 Greenpeace Amazon Tour, including the expenses of two ships and 60 people during 45 days in the Amazon.
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General Secretary, Brazilian Forests Society. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Wrote grant proposals and represented the organization in meetings with governmental and funding agencies. Responsible for research and translation in the project for converting the documents of the United Nations Conference on Environmental and Development – RIO92 into a comics series.
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Literacy Facilitator, Copacabana Catholic Church. Rio de Janeiro, RJ.
Coordinated four evening adult literacy classes through the Paulo Freire Method.
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Selected Publications
Sedrez, L. (work in progress) Environmental History of Latin America. (provisory) Co-authors: Stefania Gallini and Stuart McCook. Volume in the World Environmental History series edited by Mark Stoll, ABC-Clio.
Sedrez, L. (work in progress) “Trouble in Paradise: Globalization an Ecological Crisis in Latin America (Review)” by J. Timmons Roberts. Environmental Ethics.
Sedrez, L. (in press) “Latin American Environmental History: A Shifting Old/New Field.” In Edmund Burke, Topics on World Environmental History. Boulder, University of Colorado Press.
Sedrez, L. (2002) “Historia Ambiental de América Latina: orígenes, principales interrogantes e lacunas”. In G. Palacio & Astrid Ulloa (Ed.). Repensando la naturaleza: encuentros y desencuentros disciplinarios en torno a lo ambiental (pp. 99-113). Bogotá, Colombia, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Leticia/Instituto Amazónico de Investigaciones Imani/Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia Colciencia
Sedrez, L. (2002 Fall) “Exporting Environmentalism: US Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico (Review)” by Ronie Garcia-Johnson. Book Review. Environmental Ethics 24, no. 3: 317-20
Sedrez, L. (2000). “Earlier Images of the Amazon in the United States.” In M. Agnoletti and S. Anderson (eds.) Forest History: International Studies on Socio-Economic and Forest Ecosystem Change (pp. 93-108). Wallingford, UK, The International Union of Forestry Research Organizations/CABI Publishing
Sedrez, L. (1998, December). "L'Amazzonia Brucia." Equilibri 2, no. 3: 343-52
Sedrez, L. (1998, June). “The use of the Internet as a source for environmental history.” Environmental Green Journal, 8. [WWW document]. URL: http://egj.lib.uidaho.edu/egj08/sedrez1.html
Sedrez, L. (1998, May). A meeting of minds: Coalitions, representations and American non-governmental organizations in the Brazilian Amazon. Unpublished master’s thesis, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
MaterNatura. (1996). ECOLISTA – Cadastro Nacional de Instituições Ambientalistas. (Rev. Ed.). (P. Pizzi, Ed.; Sedrez, L., Technical Ed.). Curitiba, Brazil: WWF
Presentations Available Upon Request
Awards and Fellowships
2002 G.J. Lieberman Fellow, School of Humanities and Sciences. Stanford, CA
2001 Recognition Award for Services to the International Graduate Community, Bechtel International Center. Stanford, CA
2001 Graduate Service Recognition Award, Graduate Student Programming Board. Stanford, CA
2000 Stanford Centennial Teaching Assistant, History Department. Stanford, CA
2000 Graduate Award, Center for Latin American Studies. Stanford, CA
1998 Stanford Scholarship, History Department. Stanford, CA
Boards and Academic Appointments
Coordinator of the Environment in Latin America Working Group. Center for Latin American Studies. Stanford University, 2003-2004
Program Committee Member of the 2004 American Society for Environmental History in Victoria, Canada
Advisory Committee Member of the Simposio de Historia Ambiental Americana in the 51th Congreso Internacional de Americanistas, in Santiago de Chile, July 14-18 2003
Graduate Student Member of the Colonial Latin American Search Committee at the History Department. Stanford, CA, 2002-2003
President of the Brazilian Student Association. Stanford, CA, 1999-2001
General Editor of the Online Bibliography for Environmental History of Latin America. Stanford, CA, 1999-2003. http://www.stanford.edu/group/LAEH
Languages:
Fluent: English, Portuguese, Italian
Proficient: French, Spanish
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