I am a Peruvian anthropologist with academic background in environmental and political anthropology. Broadly, my research examines natural resource governance in the Andean region from a perspective that articulates political ecology and development studies. In this vein, my academic work addresses a wide variety of environmental settings and human groups, ranging from mobilizations in defense of water and resistance to extractive megaprojects to, more recently, the political dynamics that emerge in artisanal and small-scale mining settlements. My current research agenda includes the interfaces between different mining strata; state-making in mining frontiers; political geology and geo-human exchanges; critical minerals and resource materialities; and the governance and knowledges of the subterranean space.

 

In addition to my academic work, I have extensive professional experience in the extractive sector, where I have worked closely with local communities, private companies, and state institutions in contexts marked by conflicts and negotiations over natural resources. The core of my anthropological work seeks to integrate my academic and applied expertise into collaborative and engaged forms of ethnographic practice that foster spaces for dialogue between academia and the concerns of the communities with which I work. Within this framework, I am developing the Reassembling Anthropology Project, which examines how the multifaceted lives and responsibilities of anthropologists from the Global South shape their research methods within neoliberal and precarious academic landscapes.

 

I completed my Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology at Western University (Canada) in 2025, under the supervision of Dr. Kim Clark and with the support of a Vanier Scholarship, the most prestigious award given by the Canadian government to doctoral students. I also hold a licenciatura and bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Peru) and a master’s degree in Political Sciences from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO, Ecuador). I am currently a member of the Instituto de Estudios Políticos Andinos, an academic network dedicated to fostering a creative and inclusive environment for emerging scholars, of which I was director between 2016 and 2020.

 

My doctoral dissertation at Western University, titled Subterranean governance: The political work of artisanal miners in the northern Peruvian Andes, examines ethnographically the political practices that local artisanal miners of Algamarca—a rural village located in the region of Cajamarca—carry out to sustain and prolong their livelihoods in a context marked by state initiatives aimed at regulating their extractive activities. Two articles based on different chapters of my dissertation received Honorable Mentions in graduate student essay competitions organized by the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) and the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). Furthermore, the first paper derived from my Ph.D. thesis was published in The Extractive Industries and Society. I am currently preparing a book manuscript based on my doctoral work.