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I'm an interdisciplinary scholar of earth-systems sciences and global environmental governance trained in history, international politics & relations, and science & technology studies (STS). I have experience in policy-oriented research and working with international government and non-governmental organizations. My work uses historical research and transdisciplinary social science/humanities methods from STS, environmental history/history of science, development and postcolonial studies, political ecology, and environmental governance studies to address inequalities in the governance of human-earth interactions.
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I was born and raised in Chile's central valley, migrated to California for my Ph.D., and currently live and work in Massachusetts. I'm an active public scholar and engage with international organizations and communities. I am currently a Research Fellow at the Earth Systems Governance Project (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) and an Assistant Professor of Global Environmental Science, Technology, and Governance at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Massachusetts, USA). I am a former Fulbright Scholar; a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany; and a Visiting Scholar and a Postdoctoral Associate jointly affiliated with the program of Science, Technology, and Society and the History Section at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. My main research focuses on global nitrogen science and governance with special attention to issues of injustice and inequalities in the Global South. I ask questions about the imbalances of knowledge, agencies, and power. I examine the unequal place of expert communities, science-policy interface frameworks, and (both research and governmental) institutions in the governance of human-earth interactions—as processes linked to lasting issues of (under)development and colonialism. Across academic projects and institutional collaborations, I'm interested in the multiple forms issues of rights, justice, and democracy take in the creation of knowledge/institutional systems in modern societies. Before focusing my attention on global environmental issues, I worked on socio-racial inequity, colonialism, slavery, and legal systems in the Americas. Today, I integrate many of the discussions from colonial, postcolonial, and development studies, history and sociology of state formation, and the social history of law and policy into my scholarship and service. In doing so, I aim to highlight areas that tend to be overlooked in modern scholarly and public environmental governance debates, such as political economy, inequalities, violence, and colonialism. I enjoy transdisciplinary collaboration and thinking about how institutions and social practices shape—and delimit—the production of knowledge and ideas. Feel free to reach out if some of my work/interests resonate with yours. Contact
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