Associate Professor of Spanish
About
I am currently working on Indigenous materialities (such as objects, agricultural practices, monumentality, etcetera) from both the remote past and the present in the context of Uruguayan history. My project is also an attempt to understand the ways in which we, non-Indigenous subjects, have dealt and deal with said materialities. In particular, I am interested in the ultimate Indigenous materiality: their bodies. The recent irruption of groups of Indigenous peoples (that had been declared extinct by both academics and state officials) in the Uruguayan public sphere has been received with skepticism and hostility. It is this current situation that I am trying to understand in the framework of settler colonialism.
Recent and Selected Publications
“Colonialidad, colonialismo y estudios coloniales: Un enfoque comparativo de inflexión subalternista.” Tabula Rasa 29 (2018): 85-106.
"Una historia de desencuentros: La legislación internacional y los derechos indígenas en dos Estados del Cono Sur." Conversaciones del Cono Sur 4.2 (2019): 1-17 (View PDF)
“Endless dispossession: the Charrua re-emergence in Uruguay in the light of settler colonialism,” Settler Colonial Studies (2020): 1-25. DOI: 10.1080/2201473X.2020.1823752
“It Comes with the Territory: Indigenous Materialities and Western Knowledge.” In The Routledge Hispanic Studies Companion to Colonial Latin America and the Caribbean (1492-1898) (Routledge Companions to Hispanic and Latin American Studies). Eds. Santa Arias and Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel. London: Routledge 2020. 267-280.
“Rethinking Indigenous and Collaborative Archaeologies.” Interventions 24:2 (2021): 208-230.
Research Areas(s)
- Colonial Studies, Native American Studies, Pre-Contact Indigenous Societies, Material Culture, Ethnogenesis, Ethnic Reemergence.
Affiliation(s)
- Faculty: Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
- Faculty: Program in Native American Studies (NAS)
- Latina/o Studies (LS) Faculty Associate
Field(s) of Study
- Colonial studies, Native American studies, Cultural studies, Material Culture studies, Ethnogenesis
