About Me

I am an environmental anthropologist who studies coastal community adaptation. I was born in Argentina, where I did my B.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology at Universidad de Buenos Aires. I moved to the U.S. in 2007 to pursue my Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. As part of my doctoral research, I lived on Flores in Eastern Indonesia for about two years, exploring environmental uncertainty among artisanal fishing communities.

After graduating, I spent about two years at NOAA as a fellow and then as a contractor under the chief economist in the social science team. In late 2015, I relocated to the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. This allowed me to visit Cuba and develop a long-term collaboration with colleagues for Universidad de La Habana.

I moved to Rutgers in the fall of 2018 after I joined the Department of Human Ecology at the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences in New Brunswick. For the past few years, my scholarship and teaching have alternated with fieldwork in Indonesia, Cuba, and the U.S.