About
Image: a Rose wheel window at the Church of Saint Francis, Juazeiro do Norte, Brazil.
I am a pre-candidate in the Anthropology and History program. Before coming to Ann Arbor, I lived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I did my M.A. in Social Anthropology at the National Museum.
My main research asks: how has capitalism in the last century wrought changes to human and non-human landscapes? Building a sort of biography of a small dam in the hinterlands of the Brazilian Northeast, my dissertation will focus on how shifting valorization patterns in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries have shaped hinterlands in Global South. Together with that, I read infrastructure as an archive for these longue durée shifts in capitalism: urbanization, industrialization, and economic stagnation in the last fifty years. I hope these analytics can give us a clearer sense of how the global demiurge we call "the economy" governs our lives and the places where we live - and hopefully, how it might be undone in a connected and densely populated planet.
Finally, I am a union organizer at the Graduate Employees Organization (GEO 3550) at the University of Michigan.
