Jaime Landinez Aceros

I study the mutual production of nature, science, and politics in contexts of political and environmental transitions. My research and teaching interests include the anthropology and history of science, environmental knowledge and history, multispecies/environmental justice and ethnography, and technoscientific futures across Latin America. My dissertation research investigates the production of scientific knowledge about biodiversity in Colombia, one of the world's most biodiverse places, in the wake of the 2016 peace agreement. It examines the mobilization of biodiversity (birds, useful plants, and microbial life) as valuable resources for building a post-conflict future and the daily, unexpected outcomes of these operations on landscapes and indigenous and campesino peoples. My dissertation research and writing have been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Commission (Colombia). 

I hold a B.A in Sociology from the National University of Colombia (with honors) and an M.A in Political Science from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Prior to coming to Stanford, I was a researcher at Colombia's National Center for Historical Memory for five years.