Graduate Student Details

I am a born and raised Bolivian Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology CITE. Prior to coming to Rutgers University, I trained as an anthropologist at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres in La Paz, Bolivia. After finishing courses, I worked in several development institutions and the government on monitoring and project evaluations, mainly across the Andean plateau. I conducted one-year participatory action research with young people in El Alto. The PAR exercise looked at writing a first settlers’ city history from their point of view. In 2013, I became an immigrant in the US. The following year I enrolled in the Center of Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU. In 2016 I obtained the degree of MA with a thesis focused on Chinese entrepreneurialism on Indigenous autonomous Miskito land in Nicaragua. The same year, I started the Ph.D. program in Anthropology. My research focused broadly on Andean Entrepreneurism and the Chinese automotive industry. My research entangles transatlantic formal and informal markets, indigenous people’s smuggling practices, the Chile-Bolivia relationship, and neoliberal economics. Currently, the Wenner-Gren Foundation funds my fieldwork.