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I am a cultural anthropologist interested in ethnographic questions of embodiment, materiality, knowledge, and the political with a geographic focus on Peru and the Americas. My work draws upon diverse scholarly fields, especially environmental and medical anthropology, science and technology studies, critical race studies, and political theory. I am motivated by theoretical curiosity and political urgency and aspire to co-think, write, and create across different media, formats, and publics.
I am an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Previously, I lectured at the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Department of Anthropology and held post-doctoral fellowships at UC Irvine as a Chancellor's fellow and in the Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern University.
In 2015, I completed my PhD in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Davis with a designated emphasis in critical theory. My PhD research examined how lead toxicity is operationalized politically within social projects that resist––or support–– Peru's large-scale extractive industries. I conducted 1.5 years of research at two emblematic sites of metal production and lead contamination in Peru: the Andean Metallurgic Center of La Oroya and the National Seaport of El Callao. My research found that while toxicological sciences deliver ethical weight to public health, human rights, and environmental activism, neoliberal labor reforms in Peru make human exposures to heavy metals a requisite to diverse forms of economic livelihood and collective survival. Contemporary antagonisms between labor and environment/health generate the analytical challenge of this project. Through an ethnographic examination of the social and material processes that bring bodies and minerals into relation, my work conceptualizes the politics of environmentalism, health, and human rights within the noxious environs of racial capitalisms and post-anthropocene worlds. I am currently completing a book manuscript of this research, tentatively entitled Mineral Incorporations.
At the University of Arizona, my teaching focuses on medical anthropology and political ecology around thematics of health, environment, and labor, especially in Latin America. Previously, I have taught courses on cultures of extractivism, pollution and toxicity, social movements, race, gender, and indigeneity, science, technology, and medicine, environmental anthropology, and the anthropology of globalization.
I am a cultural anthropologist interested in ethnographic questions of embodiment, materiality, knowledge, and the political with a geographic focus on Peru and the Americas. My work draws upon diverse scholarly fields, especially environmental and medical anthropology, science and technology studies, critical race studies, and political theory. I am motivated by theoretical curiosity and political urgency and aspire to co-think, write, and create across different media, formats, and publics.
I am an Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies and Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Previously, I lectured at the University of Chicago's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies and Department of Anthropology and held post-doctoral fellowships at UC Irvine as a Chancellor's fellow and in the Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern University.
In 2015, I completed my PhD in sociocultural anthropology at the University of California, Davis with a designated emphasis in critical theory. My PhD research examined how lead toxicity is operationalized politically within social projects that resist––or support–– Peru's large-scale extractive industries. I conducted 1.5 years of research at two emblematic sites of metal production and lead contamination in Peru: the Andean Metallurgic Center of La Oroya and the National Seaport of El Callao. My research found that while toxicological sciences deliver ethical weight to public health, human rights, and environmental activism, neoliberal labor reforms in Peru make human exposures to heavy metals a requisite to diverse forms of economic livelihood and collective survival. Contemporary antagonisms between labor and environment/health generate the analytical challenge of this project. Through an ethnographic examination of the social and material processes that bring bodies and minerals into relation, my work conceptualizes the politics of environmentalism, health, and human rights within the noxious environs of racial capitalisms and post-anthropocene worlds. I am currently completing a book manuscript of this research, tentatively entitled Mineral Incorporations.
At the University of Arizona, my teaching focuses on medical anthropology and political ecology around thematics of health, environment, and labor, especially in Latin America. Previously, I have taught courses on cultures of extractivism, pollution and toxicity, social movements, race, gender, and indigeneity, science, technology, and medicine, environmental anthropology, and the anthropology of globalization.