Adrián Lerner Patrón is a historian. He obtained his BA and Licenciatura from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and he studied for his MA, MPhil, and PhD at Yale University. He was also part of the first cohort of the Mellon Interdisciplinary Concentration in the Humanities, centred on “The technologies of Knowledge”. He is currently a Philomathia Fellow in the Consortium for the Global South at the University of Cambridge, with a focus on “Ecologies in Place,” and a lecturer and research associate in Global History at the Free University of Berlin (on leave). Before moving to Europe, he was the Princeton-Mellon Fellow in Urbanism and the Environment at Princeton University and a researcher at the Instituto de Estudios Peruanos. His research and teaching deal with environmental, social, and political issues in Latin America and from a global perspective. He is finishing a book about the urbanisation of the Amazon rainforest, titled Jungle Cities.