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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 currently hold a position as Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences, Enseignant-Chercheur Titulaire) in anthropology at the University of Lyon 2 in France (on leave 2007-2009). While on leave, I am working as a researcher in Bioethics at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine.
At the Bioethics Program of the Mayo Clinic, I am involved in research projects that pertain to the anthropology of science, medical anthropology, and bioethics. With an interdisciplinary team of researchers, we are currently conducting a pilot study on bioethics and genomics that explores the impact of direct-to-consumer predictive genetic testing on medicine, culture, and ethics.
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.
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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