Ph.D., Anthropology, University of Chicago
Dissertation: Wind Futures: Indigeneity, Aerial Politics, and the Making of
Renewable Energy in Colombia (2022)
M.A., Social Sciences
(Concentration in Sociocultural Anthropology), University of Chicago (2013)
B.A., Summa cum Laude, Anthropology,
Universidad Central de Venezuela (2011)
I was born and raised in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. Currently, I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Colorado College. My work centers on the environmental conflicts and forms of dispossession that arise amidst wind energy developments in the Global South, and the conditions under which indigenous actors can advance decolonial ideas about energy governance and climate justice. My ethnographic projects integrate environmental anthropology, development studies, and critical indigenous studies, and have a regional focus on Latin America and the Caribbean.
My academic writing has appeared in American Ethnologist, Economic Anthropology, Anthropology News, Istor, and other publications. My research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights, and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Chicago.
In 2022, I was the recipient of the Anthropology & Environment McCay Junior Scholar Award from the American Anthropological Association