Angus Wright

Who is Angus Wright?

Angus Lindsay Wright is professor emeritus and one of the founders of the Environmental Studies program at California State University, Sacramento, where he taught from 1972–2005.

Wright earned his Ph.D. in Latin American History from the University of Michigan in 1976 with a dissertation on "Market, Land and Class: Southern Bahia, Brazil, 1890–1942." He has done research in Mexico and Brazil with the support of Fulbright and Doherty Research grants.

Wright's first book was The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agricultural Dilemma. This book is now available in an updated, second edition, published in 2005 by the University of Texas Press.

Wright is the co-author of To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil, published in 2003 by Food First!. He joined ecologists Ivette Perfecto and John Vandermeer of the University of Michigan to write Nature's Matrix: Linking Conservation, Agriculture, and Food Sovereignty, published in 2009 by Earthscan Press of London. He has also written numerous articles on environmental history and the social and environmental consequences of agriculture and of property ownership in the Americas.