I am a third-year Ph.D. candidate in History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, whose work explores the intersections of political ecology, memory, and infrastructure in the Mediterranean. My main project, Toxic Memories: Waste as Archive at El Borma, Tunisia, examines the history of El Borma, a waste lake produced since the 1960s through the oil explosion in the desert under the Italian company ENI. My research tries to bridge political ecology, environmental history, and critical archival studies, combining ethnographic and digital methodologies to recount how communities living amid extractive environments remember, narrate, and negotiate their pasts. I explore how memory through environmental transformation, and how people’s ways of remembering are simultaneously cognitive and material, unfolding through landscapes, bodies, and the temporalities of extraction.

 

Beyond this, I have worked as a project management consultant across academic, non-profit, and private sectors. I collaborated with Neogranadina – a Colombian non-profit digital humanities foundation – on initiatives funded by the Modern Endangered Archives Program (MEAP) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), as well as with private companies in the fields of climate technologies and environmental sustainability.