I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University

My research explores how the climate crisis and the global rise of renewable energy intersect with Indigenous peoples’ environmental relations, practices of resistance, and political and economic life in Latin America. This work bridges debates in environmental and political anthropology, political ecology, science and technology studies, and Indigenous and Latin American studies.

I am currently developing my first book project, provisionally titled Wind Futures: Indigeneity, Aerial Worlds, and the Making of Renewable Energy in Colombia. This ethnography traces the multifaceted ways in which Indigenous Wayuu communities, energy experts, and state bureaucrats experience, negotiate, and shape the shift from fossil fuels to renewables in La Guajira– a coastal region in northeast Colombia and one of the windiest places on the continent.
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