Maya Karin Peterson (19 April 1980 – 16 June 2021) was an American historian.
Peterson is best known for her 2019 book Pipe Dreams: Water and Empire in Central Asia's Aral Sea Basin about the Aral Sea environmental crisis caused by poor water management by the Soviet and subsequent post-Soviet governments.
Maya Karin Peterson was born on 19 April 1980 and grew up in Massachusetts.
[3] In 2012, Peterson visited the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society in Munich, returning to is several times during her research.
[4] That same year, she became an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and became tenured in 2019.