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Lauren Kelly

Ph.D. Student
Lauren Kelly
Pronouns She / Her / Hers Email kellylau@usc.edu

Biography

Lauren Kelly is a sixth-year PhD candidate in the Van Hunnick Department of History at USC. Her research reframes a seminal event in water history of the U.S. West: the story of how Los Angeles seized water from Payahuunadü (the Owens Valley). Most scholars and the broader public understand this water transfer through the lens of the first Los Angeles Aqueduct, which the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) completed in 1913. However, to truly comprehend both the environmental and human impacts of LADWP’s water extraction, it...

Education

  • BA Univ Calif Berkeley, 5/2018

  • Research Keywords

    Environmental History

    Native American and Indigenous Studies

    Settler Colonialism Studies

    Oral Histories

    Digital Humanities