Research
• Historical anthropology and archaeology
• Material culture studies
• Spanish colonial history
• Latin American postcolonial studies
• Museum studies
• Critical heritage studies
• Afro-Latin American studies
Current research project: Swiss National Science Foundation SPIRIT Grant Program #223853.
Understanding the Commons: a Social Archaeology of Urban Livelihoods in Mompox, Colombia
Curriculum vitae
| 08/2024 – 05/2026 | Senior researcher, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia |
| 04/2023 – 04/2025 | Visiting Research Fellow, School of Archaeology, Geography, and Environmental Science, University of Reading (UK) |
| 10/2023 – heute | Emerging Scholars Forum Board Member for Global Perspectives, University of California Press |
| 02/2023 | Visiting Professor, Departamento de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia |
| 04/2021 – 01/2023 | Deputy Coordinator, Center for Preventive Archaeology, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia |
| 10/2021 | Scholar-in-Residence, Bard Graduate Center, New York City (USA) |
| 07/2016 – 06/2020 | Visiting Assistant Professor – Senior Researcher, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia |
| 08/2015 – 07/2016 | Research Affiliate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (USA) |
| 07/2013 – 06/2015 | ACLS New Faculty Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (USA) |
| 07/2011 – 06/2013 | Cogut Postdoctoral Fellow, Anthropology Department, Brown University, Providence, RI (USA) |
| 05/2012 | PhD in Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University in the City of New York (USA). Dissertation title: Daring Trade: an Archaeology of the Slave Trade in Late Seventeenth-Century Panama (1663-1674) |
| 05/2006 | MPhil in Anthropology (High Pass), Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University in the City of New York (USA) |
| 05/2005 | MA in Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University in the City of New York (USA) |
| 09/2001 | BA in Anthropology, with Distinction, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de los Andes, Bogota, Colombia |