Silvia Hirsch Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024-2027 Silvia Hirsch has a Master’s and PhD in Anthropology (University of California, Los Angeles, 1991), she has taught at Princeton University, NYU program in Buenos Aires, and in the Master’s in Anthropology at...
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Elliott Oakley Field Museum of Natural History Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024-2027 Elliott Oakley is a cultural anthropologist at the Field Museum of Natural History (Chicago, USA), where he works on an interdisciplinary team focused on conservation and community well-being in the Andes-Amazon region. Elliott’s...
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Clarice Cohn Universidade Federal de São Carlos Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024 - 2027 Clarice Cohn is Professor of Anthropology at the Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil. For three decades, she has carried out research among the Xikrin of Terra Indígena Trincheira-Bacajá (Pará, Brazilian Amazon)....
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Edson Krenak University of Vienna / Cultural Survival Member-at-large of the SALSA Board 2024 - 2027 Edson Dorneles de Andrade, known primarily as “Edson Krenak,” is an Indigenous activist, scholar, and writer. He is currently a doctoral candidate, completing his degree in legal anthropology, at the University of Vienna,...
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Matthias Lewy Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts / Universidade de Brasilia Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2022-2025 Matthias Lewy is a Senior Researcher at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (LUASA) and a Professor Colaborador at the Departamento de Música (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Música/PPGMus) of...
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Laura Mentore Mary Washington University Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2022-2025 Laura Mentore received her Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her primary areas of specialization include environmental anthropology, critical theories of development, indigenous cosmologies and social movements. Her research is based in Lowland South America (Amazonia) and...
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