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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Daniela Peluso University of Kent Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board April 1, 2016 - (reelected) March 31, 2022 Daniela Peluso is a social-cultural anthropologist who received her PhD from Columbia University in 2003. Dr Peluso's research interests range from Amazonian to corporate environments and her teaching brings together...
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Natalia Buitron University of Cambridge Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2019 - 2024 Natalia Buitron is the Jessica Sainsbury Assistant Professor in the Anthropology of Amazonia in the department of anthropology at Cambridge, and she completed her Ph.D at the London School of Economics. Her research explores political...
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Giancarlo Rolando University of Virginia Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2019 - 2024 Giancarlo Rolando is a sociocultural anthropologist interested in the politics of Indigenous/settler relations in Lowland South America, with a focus on Indigenous ideas of personhood, relatedness, and morality. For his doctoral dissertation, Giancarlo conducted ethnographic...
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Juan Carlos Castrillón University of Pennsylvaria Member-At-Large of the SALSA Board 2018-2022 Juan Carlos Castrillón pursues doctoral studies in Ethnomusicology at the University of Pennsylvania. His intellectual agenda explores music and indigenous analytics about listening, bodies, recordings and sound archives. His work is primarily ethnographic, conducting fieldwork among...
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