Assistant Professor, William & Mary
About Mara
Mara Dicenta is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Integrative Conservation at William & Mary in Virginia (USA). She has a PhD in STS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a background in Social Anthropology. Her teaching and ethnographic research, focused in Argentina, explores how environmental knowledges respond to racial, colonial, and military orderings that affect human and other-than-human communities. Her book project, Wounded Knowledges: Eradication and Repair in Southern Patagonia, follows trappers, biologists, and Indigenous people in Tierra del Fuego in their efforts to eradicate North American beavers and how, in the process, legacies of militarized violence are reimagined and negotiated through technoscientific design and practice. Her work has been awarded by societies including ESOCITE (STS Latin America) and LASA (Latin American Studies Association).