Spring 2023
Araceli Clavijo is a biologist, Master in Environmental Engineering (UGR, Spain), and Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences (FAUBA). She has worked in the private sector in Spain and Italy. Currently, she is a researcher at the Socio-Environmental Studies and Research Group (GEISA) belonging to the Non-Conventional Energy Research Institute (INENCO) of the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET) in Salta, Argentina. She has participated in several research and development projects, emphasizing sustainable water and sanitation management and water governance; resource governance within the Water-Energy Nexus approach; risk analysis; design and implementation of territorial public management systems based on the three fundamental pillars of sustainable development: economic growth, equity (social, economic and environmental) and environmental sustainability. She works in two main research lines: socio-environmental aspects of lithium mining in Argentina and water access in remote rural populations in the Chaco of Salta.
Sebastian Aguiar is a postdoctoral researcher of the National Research Council of Argentina (CONICET) at IFEVA, a research institute in the Faculty of Agronomy, University of Buenos Aires. He is also a teaching assistant at the Forestry Department at the same institution. He has a degree in environmental sciences and a Ph.D. in agricultural sciences. Since his undergraduate studies, he has been motivated by interdisciplinary research is driven by curiosity and the need to find solutions to intertwined socio-ecological challenges, particularly in the Argentine Dry Chaco. Broadly, his research focuses on understanding the causes and consequences of land-use change. He also studies the outcomes of environmental governance instruments, such as the Forest Law in Argentina.
Spring 2022
Nayla Luz Vacarezza is an assistant researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina. She is affiliated with the Gino Germani Research Institute and teaches sociology courses at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She holds a Sociology degree and a doctoral degree in Social Sciences from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She was the recipient of a doctoral and a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research in Argentina. Dr. Vacarezza’s current research project focuses on the visual politics and affective aspects of abortion rights movements in Latin America. She is co-author (with July Chaneton) of the book La intemperie y lo intempestivo. Experiencias del aborto voluntario en el relato de mujeres y varones (Marea, 2011). The book was declared of interest by the Honorable Chamber of Deputies of Argentina’s Congress in 2012. She is co-editor (with Cecilia Macón and Mariela Solana) of Affect, Gender and Sexuality in Latin America (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). Also, she is co-editor (with Barbara Sutton) of Abortion and Democracy. Contentious Body Politics in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay (Routledge, forthcoming).
Inés Pérez is a researcher at CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research) and teaches at the Sociology Department of the Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. Her research focuses on the history of paid and unpaid domestic work, family life and consumption. She is the author of El hogar tecnificado. Familias, género y vida cotidiana, 1940-1970 (2012). She has also co-authored Senderos que se bifurcan. Servicio doméstico y derechos laborales en la Argentina del siglo XX (2018), with Romina Cutuli and Débora Garazi, and, with Marinês Ribeiro Dos Santos, she co-edited Gênero e consumo: represntaçoes midiáticas de práticas de consumo no espaço doméstico, Argentina e Brasil no século XX (2017). She has been a Fulbright Fellow and an Erasmus Fellow, which allowed her to perform research stays at the University of California, Berkeley (2009-2010) and at the University of Leuven, Belgium (2012-2013). In 2017, she was elected as vicepresident of the AAIHMEG (Argentinean Asociation for the Research in Women’s History and Gender Studies), affiliated at the IFRWH (International Federation for the Research in Women’s History). She is also a member of RITHAL (Red de Investigadores sobre Trabajo del Hogar en América Latina) and TRAGEVIC (Red sobre Trabajo, Género y Vida Cotidiana). She is currently working on the history of household workers’ experiences as mothers.
Fall 2021
Juan O'Farrell is an economist and political scientist working on the comparative political economy of development in Latin America. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT) (Argentina), a MA in Governance and Development from the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at the University of Sussex (UK), and an Economics degree from Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (UTDT). His research agenda is centered on business politics and the productive development of natural resource-based industries. He works as a researcher and consultant for government and international organizations. Currently, he coordinates the program on Natural Resources, Innovation, and Environment at the Buenos Aires-based think tank Fundar (Fundación para el desarrollo de Argentina).
Juliana González Jáuregui received her BS in international relations in 2007, her M.S. in international relations and negotiations in 2012 (FLACSO and UdeSA, Argentina), and her Ph.D. in social sciences in 2017 (FLACSO, Argentina) with honors. She was a doctoral fellow at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and has been selected to participate in doctoral training experiences in China, Chile, and the United States. Currently, she is a post-doctoral fellow at CONICET and researcher at FLACSO, where she leads the Chair on China Studies at the Department of International Relations. She heads the Postgraduate Program about China at FLACSO, teaches at the Catholic University of Argentina, and has published several articles about China-Latin America and China-Argentina ties.