Position Title
Graduate Student
Education
- MA in Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, New York.
- Licenciada en Antropología Social y Cultural (BA in Social and Cultural Anthropology), Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires.
About
Mercedes Villalba is a researcher and writer from Argentina. She studied Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín in Buenos Aires and at The New School for Social Research in New York. Now she’s a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Davis. She has published articles, poems, essays and translations about art, things and the construction of nature in academic and non-academic media. Some of those publications are Segunda Época, The Plant, Les Chroniques Purple, Compost, Correspondencia, Papersky, and Eco-colo. She is also part of the art and research duo Mejunje, the research group PROTO and the Hypha collective.
Research Focus
DE in Science and Technology Studies
DE in Feminist Research Theories
sustainability, human-nonhuman relations, energy, scale, time, geothermal activity, Southern Japan, Iceland, poetry, representation, decolonization, feminism.