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
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Selected publications
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Fish Hacks - Distillations Magazine, Science History Institute (2023)
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Cotton, Whiteness, and Other Poisons - with co-author Brian Williams, Environmental Humanities (2022), 14, 3: 499-521
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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
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Agrochemicals, Environmental Racism, and Environmental Justice in U.S. History - with illustrations by Alissa Ujie Diamond, The Organic Center (2022)
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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)
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This May Contain Coconut Oil - NACLA Report On the Americas, 53 (2021), 226-232
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