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Biography
I am currently an International Ph.D. student in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at UIUC. I am originally from Bogotá, Colombia. I live as a guest on the lands of the Peoria, Kaskaskia, Piankashaw, Wea, Miami, Mascoutin, Odawa, Sauk, Mesquaki, Kickapoo, Potawatomi, Ojibwe, and Chickasaw Nations.
I am interested in Legal and Political Anthropology, Economic Anthropology, Anthropology of the Professions, Anthropology of Education, and Post-Colonial and Decolonial Thought. I also have a background in Law. My dissertation supervisors are Dr. Jessica Greenberg and Dr. Andrew Orta.
Research Interests
Anthropology of Law and Politics, Political Economy, Post-Colonial and Decolonial Thought and Methods, Graduate Education, Ethnography, Latin America (Colombia, Chile, Argentina), Latino/Latina/Latine/Latinx Studies, Comparative Law, Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Evidence Law, Legal Epistemology, Legal Reasoning, Legal Education, and the Legal Profession.
Research Description
I am interested in the experience of International Graduate Students and their material and subjective experience of studying abroad. For my dissertation, I focus on Graduate Legal Education programs in U.S. Law Schools. I ask how these transnational educational processes impact (materially and discursively) international students' understandings of the self, the legal profession, and the law through graduate programs such as the Masters of Law (LL.M.) and Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D or S.J.D.).
Education
Ph.D. student in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D) 23', Cornell University.
Master of Laws (LL.M.) 19', Cornell Law School.
Graduate Degree in Criminal Procedure 17', Universidad Externado de Colombia.
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) 16', Pontificia Universidad Javeriana.
Grants
Colfuturo Credito Beca, Colombia, 2019.
Ministerio de Ciencia y Tecnología, Colombia. 2019.
Cornell Graduate School Funding, 2019-2023.
Cornell Einaudi Center travel grants.
Cornell Graduate School travel grants.
Illinois Distinguished Fellowship.
Highlighted Publications
Legal Education Abroad: Colombian Legal Graduates and the social effects of LL.M. degreesLegal Education Abroad: Colombian Legal Graduates and the social effects of LL.M. degrees, Novum Jus · 1 oct. 2022
Recent Publications
Legal Education Abroad: Colombian Legal Graduates and the social effects of LL.M. degreesLegal Education Abroad: Colombian Legal Graduates and the social effects of LL.M. degrees, Novum Jus · 1 oct. 2022