Results of the SALSA 2020 Elections for the Board of Directors 8 May 2020 The Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA) held elections in April and May of 2020. Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (head of Indigenous Studies program at the University of Helsinki, Finland) and Maria...
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María Antonieta Guzmán-Gallegos VID Specialized University- Oslo Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2020-2024 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...
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Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen University of Helsinki Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2020 - 2024 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...
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Simone Athayde Florida International University Secretary-Treasurer 2022-2023 Simone Athayde joined Florida International University in August of 2020, as an Associate Professor with a joint appointment in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies and the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center. Dr. Athayde is an environmental anthropologist...
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Laura R. Graham University of Iowa Candidate for SALSA President 2023-2027 Laura R. Graham is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Iowa. Her research on Indigenous agency and politics of representation focuses on the A’uwẽ-Xavante of central Brazil, where she has worked since 1981, and also on Wayuu of...
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Laura Zanotti Purdue University Candidate for SALSA President 2023-2027 Laura Zanotti received her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Washington in 2008 and joined Purdue in 2009. She is appointed in the Anthropology Department, is the Associate Director for the Center for the Environment and...
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