Welcoming Eduardo Romero Dianderas

The Institute for the Study of International Development is pleased to welcome Eduardo Romero Dianderas to its full time academic staff.

Eduardo Romero Dianderas is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Development, McGill University. He holds a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University (2022) and specializes in the study of media technologies, technical infrastructures, and global environmental governance in Latin America.

His book manuscript, Calculating Amazonia: quantifying tropical life in the age of climate change and biodiversity loss (under contract with Duke University Press), examines how technical knowledge about Peru’s Amazonian rainforests is being transformed in the context of the global environmental crisis. Drawing on 24 months of intensive ethnographic and archival fieldwork and 15 years of experience conducting research in Peru’s Amazonian rainforests, Calculating Amazonia traces how different practices and objects of technical calculation become unexpected terrains of political struggle at a time when standardized calculative procedures, digital innovations and legal reforms are changing the conditions upon which tropical rainforest governance is conducted at different scales.

Eduardo’s research has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Explorer’s Club. His research has been published in American Ethnologist, Development, Tapuya, Environment & Society, and Cultural Anthropology.

You can learn more about Eduardo's work at eduardoromerodianderas.com.