(Full CV here)
Appointments
Visiting Assistant Professor of Government and Legal Studies, Bowdoin College, 2022-
CFD Postdoctoral Fellow in Government and Legal Studies, Bowdoin College, 2020-22
Education
Johns Hopkins University, Political Science, PhD
Vassar College, International Studies, B.A. with General and Departmental Honors, Minor in French
Teaching
Bowdoin College
“Introduction to International Relations”
“Race and International Relations” (with Prof. Barbara Elias)
"The Politics of Dissent in Latin America”
"Global Political Ecology”
"Borders, Migration, Difference”
"Queering IR”
Johns Hopkins University
“Thinking Critically Through the Global South”
“Feminism and Queer Theory”
“Postcolonialism, Postdevelopment”
“Latin America Otherwise: Voicing Dissent”
Publications
“‘Natural Disaster’, International Solidarity, and the Representation of Others: Lessons from Haiti,” 2020. Revista Internacional de Cooperación y Desarrollo, 7(1), 48-61. https://doi.org/10.21500/23825014.4708
“‘The River Was My Teacher’: Poetics and Relationality in the Aftermath of Development.” Forthcoming, Global Studies Quarterly’s special edition on poetics and precarity, edited by Louiza Odysseos and Ritu Vij.
Presentations
“Pedagogy of the Stars,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2023
“Learning to Live Relationally: Notes from a Development Study Case,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Portland (Or), 2022
“‘The River Was My Teacher’: Poetics and Relational Sensibility in a Development Study Case,” International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Honolulu, 2020 (cancelled)
“Displacing Compensation: Interrogating the Conciliatory Politics of the Belo Monte Dam,” British International Studies Association, Colonial/Postcolonial/De-colonial Working Group Early Career Mentoring Workshop, London, United Kingdom, 2019
“Embodying Multiple Worlds: on the Political Significance of the Ontological Turn in the Social Sciences,” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2018
“Colonialidad del Saber y Anglocentrismo: El Racismo Epistémico ‘Oculto’ de las Relaciones Internacionales” (Roundtable in Spanish), International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2018
“Perspectivism and Non-Human Agency in the Politics of Development,” Latin American Studies Association Annual Congress, Lima, Peru, 2017
Awards and Fellowships
Faculty Fellows Program, Bowdoin College, 2022
Consortium for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020
Dean’s Teaching Prize, Johns Hopkins University, 2018
Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2017
Dean’s Teaching Prize, Johns Hopkins University, 2016
Dean’s Teaching Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2015
Program in Latin American Studies, Research Grant, Johns Hopkins University, 2014, Declined
Languages
Portuguese : Native
English : Fluent
Spanish : Fluent
French : Advanced