Ruth Goldstein researches at the intersections of gendered aspects of human and more-than-human health, a quickly heating planet, and environmental racism. Her book: Life in Traffic: Women, Plants, and Gold Along South America’s Interoceanic Highway examines the socio-environmental consequences of transnational infrastructure projects and climate change along South America’s recently constructed thoroughfare, La Interoceánica, with a particular focus on intersections of race and Indigeneity, cis and trans women’s health and “earth” rights in Brazil and Peru. Her subsequent research on mercury as a global pollutant, analyzes the racialized weight of toxic body burdens and impacts on maternal/fetal health.