Emma Shaw Crane
Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies | Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES
Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Biography
Emma Shaw Crane is Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Studies at Loyola Marymount University. Professor Crane’s research and teaching interests include racialization, environment, and health; U.S. empire and carceral studies; and ethnographic and spatial research methods. Crane holds a PhD in American Studies from New York University and she was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University. Her writing has appeared in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Public Culture and Antipode. Crane’s research is grounded in the principles and accountable practices of research justice, and she currently co-directs a research coalition organizing against migrant detention and environmental racism in South Florida.
Crane’s in-progress book project draws on two years of ethnographic research in Homestead, a suburb of Miami, Florida, and moves across a constellation of linked sites: a military base, a detention camp for migrant children, a toxic Superfund site, and industrial flower plantations sustained by migrant workers, primarily Indigenous Maya people displaced from Guatemala. In 2023, her manuscript was selected for inclusion in the Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century Series (University of California Press). Her next project turns to post-conflict environmental repair and combatant reintegration in peripheral neighborhoods of Bogotá, Colombia.
Education (2)
New York University: Ph.D., American Studies 2021
University of California, Berkeley: B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies 2009
Links (1)
Articles (3)
“Lush aftermath: Race, labor, and landscape in the suburb,”
Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 41(2) (2023): 210-230Crane, Emma Shaw
2023
“The Poisoned Periphery: Research Methods for Cities Edge,”
Public Culture 34(3 (98)) (2022): 359-364Crane, Emma Shaw
2022
“Cities, Racialized Poverty, and Infrastructures of Possibility,”
Antipode 52 (2) (2020): 365-379Baldwin, Davarian and Emma Shaw Crane
2020
