Amalia Leguizamón

Amalia Leguizamón is an environmental sociologist who writes about resource extractivism in Latin America. Her book Seeds of Power (Duke University Press, 2020) on genetically modified soybeans in Argentina has won awards from several scholarly associations. She was a resident at A Studio in the Woods in 2025, where she planned a book project with sociologist María Gabriela Merlinsky. She also held an earlier residency there in 2017.