Lara Lookabaugh
Department of Gender & Sexuality Studies
lara.lookabaugh@vanderbilt.edu
Education
- 2023 PhD, Geography, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
- 2015 MA, Latin American Studies, University of Florida
- 2011 MS, Library and Information Studies, Florida State University
- 2007 BA, Anthropology, University of Florida
professional APPOINTMENTS
- 2023–2026 Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow, Vanderbilt University
- 2015-2017 Assistant Librarian, Research & Instruction, Latin American and Caribbean Collection, Smathers Libraries, University of Florida
REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS
Single Author
- “Mujeres Tejedoras del Conocimiento: Mam Maya women curating past and present to weave the future in Guatemala,” Gender, Place & Culture, 2024
- “Body of Evidence: time and desire in embodied archives,” Qualitative Inquiry, 2022
- “Decolonization is a Political Project: overcoming artificial impasses between Indigenous sovereignty and abolition,” with A. Curley, P. Gupta, C. Neubert, S. Smith, Antipode, 2022
Collaborative
- A Curley, P Gupta, L Lookabaugh, C Neubert, S Smith (equal authorship), “Decolonization is a Political Project: overcoming artificial impasses between Indigenous sovereignty and abolition.” Antipode, 2022
Collaborative with Desirable Futures Editorial Collective
- M Gergan, P Gupta, L Lookabaugh, C McMillan, S Smith, P Vasudevan (equal authorship), “Introduction: Write Me a Letter,” ACME, 2024
- M Gergan, P Gupta, L Lookabaugh, C McMillan, C Serrano, S Smith, P Vasudevan (equal authorship), “Introduction: Desirable Futures: Time as possibility, practice, politics,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 2024
Teaching
Vanderbilt University
- Feminist Geographies
- Sexing the Archive: Research Methods in Women’s and Gender Studies
- First-Year Writing Seminar: Another World is Possible: Feminist Futures
University of North Carolina
- Development & Inequality