Miryam Nacimento is an Engaged Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Syracuse University. She received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the City University of New York, The Graduate Center. Miryam’s work sits at the intersection of critical agrarian studies, environmental anthropology, and racial politics in the Andes. Emerging from long-term collaborations with peasant organizations, her work aims to produce knowledge in solidarity with collective struggles over land and environmental justice. She draws on decolonial perspectives, integrating Andean Indigenous thought alongside multispecies and semiotic approaches to examine how humans and plants acquire value within shifting political-economic regimes, and racial formations. In particular, she examines illicit agrarian economies in Colombia and Perú, where accumulation, enclosure, and violence profoundly shape rural livelihoods and identities. Her work has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the United States Institute of Peace, the French Institute for Andean Studies, among other institutions. She also holds an MA in Public Policy from the International Institute of Social Studies in the Netherlands and a BA in Political Science from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú.
