Curriculum Vitae

Education

2003-2014
MA and PhD in Anthropology, Graduate Center, City University of New York

1995-1999
BA in Anthropology (High Honors and Distinction), University of California, Berkeley

1996
Arizona State University Ethnographic Field School, Ensenada, Mexico

Employment

2016-2019
Research Faculty, Center for Public Economics, IAEN (National Institute of Advanced Studies), Quito, Ecuador

2015-2016
Researcher and sub-director, CENEDET (National Center for Strategies for the Right to Territory), IAEN, Quito, Ecuador

Grants, Fellowships, and Awards

2011-2012
Graduate Fellow, Committee on Globalization and Social Change, Graduate Center, CUNY

2009-2011
CUNY Writing Fellowship, Queens College, CUNY

2009-2010
Graduate Fellow, Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. Graduate Center, CUNY

2008-2009
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant

2007-2008
Wenner Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant

2012-2013
Provost’s University Fellowship, Graduate Center, CUNY

2003-2007
University Fellowship, Graduate Center, CUNY

Teaching

2021
Economic Anthropology (BA and MA) Ethnographic Research Methods (BA), California State University Northridge

2015-2019
Graduate Courses on Theory of the State, Economic Anthropology and History of Ecuador, New Forms of non-Capitalist Production, Uneven Development and Territorial Rights, and Thesis Development. Center for Public Economics and CENEDET, IAEN (National Institute of Higher Advanced Studies), Quito, Ecuador

2003-2007 and 2011-2014
History of Anthropological Theory (MA and BA) and Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Hunter College

2009-2011
Promoted Writing Across the Curriculum at Queens College, CUNY

Service (selected)

2021
Amicus curiae brief and expert testimony, demand for constitutional protection by members of the Comuna Santa Clara de San Millán against the Ministry of Agriculture of Ecuador

2014-2017
Councilor, Society for Urban, National, and Transnational-Global Anthropology

2013
Diversity Committee, CUNY Graduate Center. Drafted “2013-18 Graduate Center Faculty Diversity Strategic Plan”

2007
Accredited Election Observer, Referendum on DR-CAFTA, Costa Rica 5. Projects