I am a Latin American anthropologist and a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. My work examines how coloniality, colonial histories and structures, continues to shape the lives of Indigenous peasant women in Latin America. I focus on issues such as reproductive violence, chemical exposure in extractive zones, and the use of genetic material in state-led reparation programs.

A central thread in my research is the ethics and practice of feminist and decolonial ethnography. I am particularly interested in the dilemmas feminist anthropologists face when producing critical scholarship while remaining accountable to the communities that participate in their research.

I am the author of Decolonizing Reproductive Rights in Latin America, an ethnography of the aftermath of Peru’s 1990s sterilization campaign. The book analyzes how forced sterilization is interpreted by urban feminists, the state, and Indigenous peasant women, and the hierarchies and dissonances among these perspectives.

My current project, The Afterlives of Kinship: Genetic-Based Reparations and Indigeneity, funded by an NWO Veni grant, explores how kinship and family structures intersect with genetic-based reparation efforts in Peru. Before joining the University of Amsterdam, I lectured in Reproductive Sociology at the University of Cambridge and held a Wellcome Trust Early Career Award. I earned my PhD in Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Research methods

Qualitative methods, feminist ethnography, body-mapping

Current research projects

1. The Afterlives of Kinship: Genetic-Based Reparations and Decolonial Kinship. This project explores how biogenetic kinship definitions influence Peru’s reparations, focusing on Indigenous views of genetic data, ancestry, and post-conflict justice.
2. Reproductive Justice in Latin America: This is an hemispheric initiative to advance current knowledge on the intersections of reproductive justice and social justice in Latin America.

Research grants & honours

My work has been generously supported by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), The Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Wellcome Trust, Dutch Research Council (NWO), and Ford/LASA special projects.

Current cooperations

Current collaborations: Martina Yopo-Díaz (Universidad Católica-Chile), María Ximena Dávila (UT-Austin), Sandra Rodríguez (UCL)

Cambridge Reproduction, University of Cambridge.