Position Title
Graduated 2019
Position Title
Graduated 2019
Bio
Dissertation: “Scaling Up Trust in Suspicious Landscapes: Improvised Explosive Devices and Humanitarian Demining in Colombia”
Research Interests: Anthropology of Violence and Peace, Feminist Science and Technology Studies, Multi-Species Ethnography, Latin American Cultural Studies; Critical Disability Studies; landmines, politics and practices of mining and demining, technologies of war, Colombia.
Fellowships, Grants, and Awards:
External Research Fellowships
- Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), 2015
- Dissertation Fieldwork Grant Wenner-Gren Foundation, 2015
Grants from the University of California Davis
- HArCS Dean’s Summer Fellowship Award, 2017
- WRRC Summer Graduate Research Award, 2017
- Provost Dissertation Year Fellowship 2016-17
- UCD & Humanities Graduate Research Award 2016-17
- HArCS Dean’s Summer Fellowship Award, 2014
- Social Justice Initiative Fellowship, Summer 2014
- Miguel Velez Fellowship, 2012-2013
- Cultural Studies Summer Research Fellowship, 2012
- Tinker Field Research Grant, 2012
- Miguel Velez Fellowship, 2011-2012
- Cultural Studies Graduate Group First Year Supplemental Fellowship, 2011
Education:
- B.A., History, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 2009
- M.A., Cultural Studies, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia, 2010
Recent Publications:
- The Amputated Body: Ghostly and Literal Presence. In Territories of Conflict: Traversing Colombia through Cultural Studies. Edited by Andrea Fanta Castro, Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, Chloe Rutter-Jensen. New York: University of Rochester Press, 2017.
- "Ethics, Collaboration, and Knowledge Production: Digital Storytelling with Sexually Diverse Farmworkers in California," Co-written with Tania Lizarazo, Elisa Oceguera, David Tenorio, and Robert McKee Irwin,Lateral 6.1, 2017.