Lisa Kennedy
Graduate School Student
Lisa Kennedy (she/her) is a JD/PhD student in American Studies. Originally from Rhinelander, Wisconsin, she is committed to advancing equity in rural communities through advocacy, law, and scholarship.
She is a 2026-27 Whitney Humanities Center Graduate Fellow in Environmental Humanities and will be matriculating at Yale Law School in Fall 2027. Her research examines the settler colonial impulses of “conservation” movements, Indigenous/settler coalitions against extractive industry, and rural ecologies in the Great Lakes region.
Lisa received her B.A. in American Studies from Georgetown University in 2025 and her M.St. in US History from the University of Oxford in 2026.
rural identity and ecologies, settler colonialism, conservatism, conservation, wilderness tourism, racial formation, environmental justice, critical race theory, and federal Indian law.