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

Academia.edu Profile

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.