Dr. Adrián Lerner

Biography

Adrián Lerner is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, focusing on Latin American History with an emphasis on the modern Andes, Brazil, and the Amazon Rainforest. His research covers a broad range of issues including environmental concerns, urbanization, public health, gender, violence, human rights, development, international relations, and authoritarian politics within the region, alongside global processes. He completed his undergraduate studies (BA Licenciatura) in Humanities and History at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, where he was born and raised, and later moved to the United States to pursue his graduate education. He received his MA, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University. In addition to his role at Cambridge, Lerner has participated as a Philomathia Fellow in the Ecologies of Place Consortium for the Global South and served as a Lecturer and Research Fellow in Global History at the Free University of Berlin. He was also a Princeton-Mellon Fellow focusing on Urbanization and Environment at Princeton University.

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