Dr. Pablo Lapegna obtained his Licenciatura in Sociology from the University of Buenos Aires, and his PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He teaches and writes about social movements, environmental issues, critical agrarian studies, and global processes, with a focus on South America and using qualitative methods (see "Research" below for publications). He holds a joint appointment with the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Institute.

His book Soybeans and Power: Genetically Modified Crops, Environmental Politics, and Social Movements in Argentina (Oxford University Press, 2016) investigates how rural populations think, feel, and act when affected by environmental problems and quotidian hardships, and analyzes mechanisms of demobilization and the decline of contention in cases of agrochemical exposure. Soybeans and Power has won the 2017 Best Book Award of the Sociology of Development Section, American Sociological Association. It has been published in Spanish as La Argentina Transgénica: De la Resistencia a la Adaptación, una Etnografía de las Poblaciones Campesinas (Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires, 2019).

Dr. Lapegna is currently working on a project in collaboration with Dr. Johana Kunin (from CONICET and Universidad de San Martín in Argentina, and a fellow at Uppsala University in Sweden). The book manuscript resulting from this research focuses on how farmers reconcile the economic benefits of pesticide use and concerns about their negative environmental impacts and health risks. In 2022-23, Dr. Lapegna worked on this project as a visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University. In 2024, the National Endowment for the Humanities provided funding for this project through its program "Dangers and Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities." The book manuscript is under contract with Oxford University Press.

At the University of Georgia, he co-organizes Dirty History, an interdisciplinary workshop on agriculture, capitalism, and the environment. He is a faculty affiliate with the Sustainability Certificate Program and the Center for Integrative Conservation Research.