Laura Ogden
Laura A. Ogden is an environmental anthropologist at Dartmouth College and serves as the Special Advisor to the Provost on Climate and Sustainability.
Professor Ogden has conducted long-term fieldwork in the Florida Everglades and in the Fuegian Archipelago of South America. Her research explores the politics of environmental change, conservation, and extinction, while her writing blurs the boundaries of ethnography, memoir, and creative nonfiction. Her books include Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades and Loss and Wonder at the World’s End. In 2024, she was awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.