ABOUT
I am an Assistant Professor of Politics and a Paul Garrett Fellow at Whitman College, and a member of the anti-extractive collective Comunálisis based in Quito, Ecuador.
My research focuses on Indigenous politics, environmental and feminist movements, conflicts over territory and natural resource extraction, and decolonial thought in Latin America. My publications in English and Spanish include peer-reviewed articles for Politics and Gender (2019), Journal of International Women’s Studies (2020), Antropologías del Sur (2022), Society & Natural Resources (2023), and Studies in Social Justice (2023). I have written essays and book reviews for The New York Review of Books, Alternautas, Verso and NACLA. I am co-editor of a translated book by the Bolivian sociologist Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: Eine Reflexion über Praktiken und Diskurse der Dekolonisierung (Unrast Verlag, 2018).
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I am currently working on my book, Forest Politics: The Mujeres Amazónicas' Fight against Extractivism in Ecuador, about the territorial struggle of the Mujeres Amazónicas, a group of Indigenous women leaders who have organized against oil and mining projects in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
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Previously, I was a Visitor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, a Fellow at the Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture in Giessen, Germany, a Visiting Researcher at Universidad Andina Simón Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, and a Visiting Researcher at UC Davis. From 2020 to 2021, I was a Visiting Instructor of Anthropology and Sociology and of Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in Sociology from the Justus Liebig University of Giessen in Germany in 2021. My dissertation was awarded the Justus Liebig University Award and the ADLAF Award (Latin American Research Association in Germany, second place).