Conference Organizers

Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen

Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen: Organizer XV SALSA Conference (2025)

Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Organizer XV SALSA Biennial Conference - Helsinki, 4-6 August 2025 Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen received her doctorate in Latin American studies from the University of Helsinki in 2007. She has carried out fieldwork in southwestern Amazonia, especially with the Arawak-speaking Manchineri and Apurinã in the Purus...

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Juan Alvaro Echeverri SALSA Webmaster

Juan Alvaro Echeverri: Organizer XIV SALSA Conference (2023)

Juan Alvaro Echeverri Organizer XIV SALSA Biennial Conference - Amazon Triple Frontier Brazil-Colombia-Peru, 27-30 July 2023 Juan Alvaro Echeverri holds a PhD in anthropology by the New School for Social Research (NY 1997). Full Professor at the Amazonia Campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Specialist in native Amazonian...

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Carlos Machado Dias Jr.

Carlos Machado Dias: Co-Organizer XIV SALSA Conference (2023)

Carlos Machado Dias Jr. Co-Organizer Fourteenth SALSA Biennial Conference - Amazon Triple Frontier Brazil-Colombia-Peru, 27-30 July 2023 Carlos Machado Dias Junior completed his master's and doctorate in Social Anthropology at the Universidade de São Paulo, researching among the Waiwai indigenous peoples of the Trombetas-Mapuera Indigenous Land. For 16...

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Roxani Rivas

Roxani Rivas: Co-Organizer XIV SALSA Conference (2023)

Roxani Rivas Co-Organizer Fourteenth SALSA Biennial Conference - Amazon Triple Frontier Brazil-Colombia-Peru, 27-30 July 2023 Roxani Rivas is Assistant Professor at the Escuela de Antropología social of the Universidad Nacional de la Amazonía Peruana (UNAP) in Iquitos (Peruvian Amazon). She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology and Ethnology of...

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George Mentore

George Mentore: Organizer SALSA XIII Conference (2021)

George Mentore Organizer XIII SALSA Biennial Conference - University of Virginia Charlottesville, 24-27 June 2021 Ex-Officio Member of the SALSA Board from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2021 From George Mentore's homepage: The disciplinary effects of anthropology have over the years gradually framed and reframed my current research interests. ...

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