Jayson Maurice Porter

Institute at Brown for Environment and Society

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Jayson Maurice Porter

Former Voss Postdoctoral Research Associate

jayson_porter@brown.edu

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Biography

Jayson Maurice Porter's research specializes in environmental politics, science and technology studies, food systems, and racial ecologies in Mexico and the Americas. Jayson is an editorial board member of the North American Congress for Latin America (NACLA) and Plant Perspectives: An Interdisciplinary Journal, a staff blogger for Black Perspectives, and an environmental specialist for Noria Research's Mexico and Central America Program.

Recent awards: Mellon Summer Fellowship in Democracy and Landscape Studies (Cohort: Black Atlantic Geographies), Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC, Summer 2023

Selected publications

Fish Hacks - Distillations Magazine, Science History Institute (2023)
Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons - with co-author Brian Williams, Environmental Humanities (2022), 14, 3: 499-521
Black Placemaking Under Environmental Stressors: Dryland Farming in the Arid Black Pacific, 1890-1930 - with co-author Maya L. Shamsid-Deen, Environment and Society (2022), 13, 1: 121-139
Agrochemicals, Environmental Racism, and Environmental Justice in U.S. History - with illustrations by Alissa Ujie Diamond, The Organic Center (2022)
The Violence Takes Place series: Land, Markets and Power in Rural Mexico - with co-author Alex Aviña, Noria Research's Mexico and Central America Program (2021)
This May Contain Coconut Oil - NACLA Report On the Americas, 53 (2021), 226-232

Recent News

News from IBES

IBES: 2023 in Review

December 20, 2023

Dive into a year of accomplishments at IBES, where community-engaged scholarship, cutting-edge research, student-led projects and events, and more highlight the many ways that our community is rising to meet the 21st century’s climate, sustainability, and environmental challenges.

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Distillations Magazine

Fish Hacks

November 17, 2023

Written by Voss Postdoc Jayson Maurice Porter, this piece serves as a multi-species family history about how diasporic Black folks stay connected to the ocean and each other.

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News from IBES

Teaching in Tandem: Voss Postdocs Bring Climate History to Fifth Graders

July 20, 2023

Two IBES postdoctoral research associates worked together to develop a learning module for local elementary school students.

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