The Latin American Environmental Humanities Lab, LAEH Lab, is an interdisciplinary and cross-school project at the Ivan Allen College. Directed by Professors Miguel Rosas Buendia (School of Modern Languages) and Germán Vergara (School of History and Sociology), it offers a bilingual and multimedia platform that combines humanistic inquiries, academic research, community engagement, and digital media to explore relevant environmental problems and provide a forum to diverse voices from the United States and Latin America. The focus on the environment serves as a basis for larger discussions about energy, extractivism, ecologies, global markets, urban decline, Western epistemologies, ethnicity and indigeneity, and human rights, among other topics.

Joining Georgia Tech‘s multiple initiatives around sustainability, LAEH Lab seeks to contribute to the integration of humanistic perspectives and innovative resources in college education and beyond. By stressing the global significance of the Latin American region and positioning itself at the crossroads of the humanities, sciences, and media, LAEH Lab highlights Georgia Tech’s goal of becoming a world-class university in the 21st century with a distinct emphasis on sustainability, public education, and environmental justice.

LAEH Lab has been supported by the Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC), a partnership of the Georgia Institute of Technology and Georgia State University. AGSC integrates and emphasizes principles of Education for Sustainable Development and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).