Ailén Vega

Vega

Research Areas

Critical Environments 

Racial Geographies

Interests

toxicity/contamination; resource extraction; indigenous & ribeirinho politics; Latin America/ Brazilian Amazon; critical indigenous studies; feminist science and technology studies

Contact Information

ailen.vega@berkeley.edu

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Academic Profile

Biography

My research and studies has been supported by the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (NSF GRFP), the Eugene Cota Robles Fellowship (UC Berkeley), FLAS for Portuguese language studies (UC Berkeley), and the CLAS Tinker field research grant.   

I'm also a member of the Working Group on Political and Historical Ecology of the Trombetas, Tapajós and Xingu Rivers at the Federal University of Western Pará (UFOPA(link is external)) based in Santarém, Brazil (Grupo de Estudos de Ecologia Histórica e Política nas Bacias do Trombetas, Tapajós e Xingu). 

Teaching Experience

Graduate Student Instructor | GEOG 10 – Introduction to Geography : Worldings, Jake Kosek (Fall 2020).

Graduate Student Reader | ANTHRO 189 –  Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Data, Cori Hayden (Spring 2020). Graduate Student Instructor | GEGO C32 – Introduction to Development Studies & Global Studies, Michael Watts (Fall 2019).