Leiden University College the Hague

Faculty Member, Social Sciences

Assistant Professor of Anthropology

About

I am a cultural anthropologist specializing in issues of globalization and sustainable development and their impact on indigenous cultures.  I hold an M.A. in Anthropology from University of California, Los Angeles (2000) and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from New York University (2008).  I also completed the graduate program in Culture and Media at New York University (2004). 

My current research draws on methods and frameworks of legal anthropology and environmental anthropology. My broad theoretical interests include the production of normative and contested discourses of nature and human-environment relations, the impact of globalization and development on indigenous sovereignty, the ways in which indigenous communities claim environmental sovereignty through legal channels, indigeneous ethnoecology, and fantasies of alterity.  I did my dissertation fieldwork in Ecuador, focusing on ecotourism in the lowland Kichwa villages of the Napo and Pastaza provinces.

I am trained in visual anthropology and frequently use visual methods in my ethnographic work. 

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