jerazo@fiu.edu

Office Hours

Juliet S. Erazo, Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2003

Dr. Erazo’s research examines the history of indigenous organizing in the Ecuadorian Amazon with particular attention to how indigenous leaders have worked to shape their constituents’ land use practices, property regimes, and identities. She uses a variety of archives, including written documents, aerial photographs, and satellite images, to illuminate the data she gathers through oral history interviews and ethnographic fieldwork. More broadly, she is interested in environmental politics and history, the relationships between international development philosophies and local practices, and state-society relations.  She has published collaboratively-written articles in The Journal of Political Ecology and Conservation Biology; sole-authored chapters in two edited volumes (Economies and Transformations of Landscapes and Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador), and is currently working on a book manuscript titled Constructing Autonomy: Indigenous Organizations and Their Utopian Projects in the Ecuadorian Amazon, 1964-2000.

Syllabi

ANT3212-World Ethnographies (FALL 2007)

ANT 3403.U01/ANG5403.U01-Ecological Anthropology (FALL 2007)