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“Who we are is where we are: Making home in the American Rust Belt”

Amanda McMillan Lequieu is an environmental sociologist and Assistant Professor in Sociology at Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research focuses on culture, social change, and home in the face of transforming economies and environments. Her research interrogates the relationship between the material flows of capitalism, the risks of nature-based livelihoods, and the stability of social life in place. She focuses on two groups of people: working-class communities who are directly impacted by the labor of turning nature into commodities and elites of capitalism who control the movement of capital through these places. Her book, Who we are is where we are: Making home in the American Rust Belt, is forthcoming with Columbia University Press in 2024.