Camilla Falanesca is a third-year PhD candidate in History and MA student in Latin American Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her work focuses on waste at the intersection of political ecology, environmental history, and memory studies, tracing how extractive residues reshape landscapes, bodies, and collective memory across both the Mediterranean and Latin America.  
 
 
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.

At UC Santa Barbara, I served as the Lab Manager of the Archives, Memory, and Preservation Lab (AMPL), a research and pedagogical space devoted to developing tools and methodologies for more inclusive and egalitarian archival practices. I currently serve as Graduate Coordinator and Representative for the Center for Middle East Studies, fostering interdisciplinary engagement and collaboration among graduate scholars of the Middle East and North Africa.

Hist 4A History of the Ancient Mediterranean

HIST 46B History of the Modern Middle East

Hist 146 History of the Modern Middle East: History, Historiography, and Archives 

Hist 17B: History of the United States

Hist 8A: History of Precolonial Latin America

Hist 56B: History of Modern Mexico

Hist 8B: History of Modern Latin America

LAIS10 : Introduction to Latin American Studies

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