Chris Jarrett University of Texas Member-at-large candidate 2020 Chris Jarrett is a sociocultural anthropologist with an MA and PhD from the University of Texas at San Antonio (2019). He has worked with Amazonian Kichwa communities since 2010 and wrote his dissertation on the guayusa industry in Amazonian...
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Jan David Hauck London School of Economics Member-at-large candidate 2020 Jan David Hauck is a linguistic anthropologist and British Academy Newton Fellow at the London School of Economics. He is excited to join the SALSA Board of Directors to contribute with his expertise on language and linguistics,...
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Manuel Lizarralde Connecticut College Member-at-large candidate 2020 Dr. Manuel Lizarralde is Venezuelan and an Associate Professor of Ethnobotany, teaching in the Botany Department and Environmental Studies Program at Connecticut College since 1998. Dr. Lizarralde’s principal research focus is the botanical and ecological knowledge of indigenous people of...
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Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University of Helsinki Member-at-large candidate 2020 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 River region, Brazil....
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María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos VID Specialized University- Oslo Member-at-large candidate 2020 María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos is Associate Professor at VID Specialized University- Oslo. Her research explores how the constitution of persons - of gendered bodies - interweaves with perceptions of and practices related to human and non-human sociality. In her...
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