I am an anthropologist with an academic background in environmental and political anthropology. My research focuses on artisanal and small-scale mining, geosocial formations, critical minerals, and the subterranean in Peru and Mexico, with an emphasis on the intersections between materiality, territory, and power. In addition to my academic work, I have extensive professional experience in the extractive sector, where I have worked closely with local communities, 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 critical forms of ethnographic practice that foster spaces for dialogue between academia and the concerns of the communities with which I work. 

 

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 awarded by the Canadian government. I also hold a bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the National University of San Marcos (Peru) and a master’s degree in Political Science from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (Ecuador). I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in the Laboratorio Interdisciplinario de Etnografia (LabEtno) at El Colegio de México.

 

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 'informalized' livelihoods in a context marked by state initiatives aimed at regulating their extractive activities. Two articles based on my doctoral dissertation received honorable mentions in the 2025 CALACS Graduate Essay Prize of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) and in the 2024 Roseberry-Nash Graduate Student Paper Award of the Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA) of the American Anthropological Association (AAA). My doctoral dissertation was also recognized with the 2026 CALACS Outstanding Dissertation Award. Findings from my research have been published in The Extractive Industries and Society and Resources Policy, as well as in outreach platforms such as Anthropology News. I am currently preparing a book manuscript based on my doctoral work as part of my postdoctoral fellowship at El Colegio de México.