Lara Putnam

Lara Putnam is UCIS Research Professor of History and Director of the Global Studies Center at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also serves as co-lead of the Civic Resilience Initiative of the Pitt Disinfo Lab in the university’s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security. Her research encompasses the history of gender, family, and migration in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as patterns of political engagement and disengagement in the U.S. rust belt and beyond.