Cesar Ramirez Salazar

I am currently a Ph.D. student in Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology at UIUC. 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. 

My research intersects the fields of legal and political anthropology, economic anthropology, education (College, Graduate, and Post-Graduate), Latin American Diaspora, Post-Colonial and Decolonial Thought, and South America.

I also have a background in Law. I hold a Bachelor's in Law, an LL.M., and a J.S.D. I pursue research in different areas, such as comparative law, comparative criminal procedure, legal reasoning, and Constitutional law. I also have collaborated with Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholars and activists on questions of Governance and Politics in Colombia and other South American countries, such as Ecuador, Brazil, and Peru, regarding the environment, gender, and Human Rights. Two threads connect these multiple areas of research: first, the use of ethnographic research methods and theories; second, a commitment to explore and evince the processes behind how legal institutions are locally, translocally, and globally constructed and by whom; and to collaboratively engage in articulating theoretical and practical mechanisms to move beyond the traditional understandings of the distinct legal institutions I explore.