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Ph.D. Career Outcomes

  • 2023-2024: 4 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Alexandra Lamina Luguana Indigenous Geospatial Mobility:  Agency, Gender, and Urban Development in Ecuadorian Amazonia Sletto Bjorn    
    Ruth Matamoros Anticolonial Landscapes:  Land of the Emergence of Misktu People's Territorial Resistance in the Moskita  Luis Carcamo-Huechante     
    Mary Moralez        
    Fatimia Valdivia Ramirez Drug Trafficking in Tarahumara. Colonial Continuities and Mestizo Criminal Masculinities at the Base of the Modern Mexican Colonial Fragmented State. Smith, Christen    
  • 2022-2023: 1 Graduate
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Nathalia Hernandez Building Realities:  Ecuadorian Amazonian Kichwa Oral Literature and its role in Napo Kichwa Social World-Making Gloria Gonzalez-Lopez    
  • 2021-2022: 6 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Blanca Pacheco Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism and Public Health:  Xinka Medicine as a Practice of Resurgence in Southern Guatemal Luis Urrieta    
    Ana Isabel Braconnier Disputing Extrativism at the Court:  Elite Countermobilzation and Backlash in a (Still)  Colonials Guatemala Daniel Brinks    
    Rony Castillo Iseri Lidawamari:  Autonmia Territorial y Educativa en la Comunidad Garifuna de Vallecito en Honduras Luis Urrieta Board of Directors Caribbean Central American Research Council  
    Adriana Linares Palma Ixil Political Geography During the Postclassic Period: Approaches form Arachaeoloicial Knowledge and Ixil Ontologies Enrique Rodriguez Post Doc School for Advanced Research UT Austin  
    Davi Pereira The Future of Alcantra is not (just) Rocket Science: Quilombola Epistemologies and the Struggle for Territoriality Bjorn Sletto Professor, Postgratuate Program in Cartography and Politics in the Amazon at University of States of Maranhão,   
    Meztil Rodriguez Grieving Geographies, Mourning Waters:  Race, Gender, and Environmental Struggles on the Coast of Oaxama, Mexico Christen Smith Asst. Professor, Wake Forest  
  • 2020-2021: 3 Graduates
    Name Dissertation Title Dissertation Supervisor(s) First Position Current Position
    Geronimo Barrera de la Torry The Forest Frontier in San Juan Lachao (Oaxaca, Mexico):  Contested Environmental Conservation in Chatino Indigenous and Campesino Territories Bjorn Sletto Assistant Professor of Latin American Cultural Studies, Clemson University  
    Prisca Gayles Argentina Tambien es Afro:  Black Activists' Struggles for Visibility, Recognition, and Socila Justice in Argentina Javier Auyero Assistant Professor of Sociology and Gender, Race, and Identity , University of Nevada  
    Ricardo Velasco Trujillo Cultural Ecologies of Memory and Symbolic Reparation in Transitional Columbia:  Practics of Memory by State and Civil Society Actors Durikng the Post-Conflict Transition Lorraine Leu Engaged Scholar Postdoc UT Austin, Liberal Arts  
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