Profile
In 2006, I received a Ph.D. from the Energy and Resources Group at the University of California-Berkeley. I am currently lecturing a course on environmental history, culture and policy in Latin America and the Caribbean at the University of California, Berkeley. My academic specialization is environmental history of Latin America; traditional ecological knowledge and ethnoscience; science and technology studies; fisheries, river management and water resources politics. In 1998, I begun to study water and river management policies on the São Francisco River. Historical and ethnographic fieldwork to observe and participate in the implementation of those policies took place in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2003. In between these fieldwork opportunities, I followed official projects through communication with key individuals involved in the process, scholarship published in Brazil and accessing the media. The research resulted in the dissertation “The Third Bank of the Lower São Francisco River: culture, nature and power in Northeast Brazil, 1853-2003”.
I am a faculty at the Universidade Católica de Brasília, Graduate Program of Environmental Planning and Management, and workign as a visiting researcher at the University of California at Berkeley on the biofuels program.