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I am a cultural anthropologist interested in the anthropology of science and environmental and ecological anthropology. Originally from Europe, I completed a PhD. in cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon (2004).
I am an Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences, Enseignant-Chercheur Titulaire) in anthropology at the University of Lyon 2 in France. While on leave from U Lyon, I have done research at Mayo Clinic and currently, I am a visiting scholar in Anthropology at the University of Minnesota.
My research in ecological and environmental anthropology focuses on human-environmental interactions, protected area management, tourism and cultural politics and is primarily centered on the Americas. For over ten years, I have conducted ethnographic research working with Nahua, Teenek, and Xi'Oi peoples in the Huasteca region of Mexico. Based on my research in Mexico, I am currently working on a book manuscript, tentatively titled: The Politics of Rights and Culture in the Huasteca, that analyzes the politics of making and interpreting indigenous claims to natural and cultural resources.
While I continue to do research in Mexico --my most recent fieldtrip was in January 2008-- I am also expanding my research interest in human-environmental interactions to other areas in the world as part of a larger interdisciplinary research focus on climate change. I am a researcher of the workgroup Creative Responses to Sustainability Ceres 21.
In 2008-2009, I worked as a Research Fellow in Bioethics at Mayo Clinic . With an interdisciplinary team of researchers, we conducted a proof of principle trial on predictive genomics that explored the impact of direct-to-consumer predictive genetic testing on medicine, culture, and ethics.
In the past, I have also worked on projects with Latinos in the United States on immigration and labor rights, on social justice in the United States with African American and Latino rights' activists, and, on gender and development in Mexico.
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