I am an anthropologist and interdisciplinary scholar specialising in media, visual culture, and social movements with a focus on racialisation, gender, and sexuality. My work is grounded in anthropological, sociological, and cultural studies frameworks and global art histories perspectives shaped by ethnographic and critical intersectional approaches.

Focusing on Latin America and Global South contexts, my research and teaching engage how visual and material cultures, art and media practices, and the creative industries relate to the production and countering of social inequalities.

My recent research includes queer, feminist, and Afrodiasporic digital and printed visual cultures in Argentina, Peru, and Colombia; gender violence and artivism; and public art, visuality, mestizaje, citizenship, and mediatization in Mexico. My work has also explored social justice-oriented collaborative art practices among South African, Turkish, and Burundian trans and intersex activists, as well as migration, cultural heritage, and body-based art (performance, tattoos) in the US-Mexico borderlands.

An integral interest in my work is to engage transdiciplinary socially-engaged practices. This has led me to co-convene collaborative projects linking scholarly, activist, and artistic work through critical-creative methods in different settings and with diverse collaborators in Latin America, Africa, and Europe. For example, Creaction: Creative Critical Interventions For Social Justice, an edited volume (UCL Press 2026) and series of workshops I co-convened with Dr Natasha Tanna (University of York) and Dr hakan Sandal-Wilson (LSE), at UCL’s Institute of Advanced Studies.

My teaching has also been guided by an interest in promoting socially engaged awareness through critical thinking. With this focus, I have taught UG supervisions in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Sociology, taught the Catedra SLAS 2024 MA course at the University of Salamanca, Spain, awarded by the UK Society of Latin American Studies, and lectured at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and at the National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH).

I was a Research Associate in the AHRC-funded project Comics and Race in Latin America (Prof. James Scorer, PI; Prof. Peter Wade, Co-I). I was selected as the Catedra SLAS 2024 by the UK Society of Latin American Studies to deliver an MA-level course on visual and political cultures of anti-racism in Latin America at the University of Salamanca, Spain. I did a PhD at the Institute for Media and Creative Industries, Loughborough University London, was Associate PhD student at the Centre of Latin American Studies, University of Cambridge, and hold degrees in Mesoamerican Studies from UNAM and in Anthropology (Ethnology) from ENAH.

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