Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo - new Postdoc at the Department of Anthropology
Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo will be working on a project that examines how nature, technology, and organisms filter in landscapes where contaminants accumulate.
Pablo is an environmental anthropologist, a Science, Technology, and Society (STS) scholar,
and a Mexico City native. With an academic background in environmental sciences, he obtained his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania in the US, where he examined the historical emergence of the Yucatec Karst Aquifer System as an object of environmental expertise in Mexico. He was a fellow at the Penn Program for Environmental Humanities (PPEH), a founding member of EnviroLab in the Department of Anthropology, and a member of the Fine Arts program at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also previously a fellow at The Center for Research and Higher Education in Social Anthropology (CIESAS) and the Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV) in Mexico. His research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation in the US, the Mexican National Council of Science and Technology, the Mexican Center for Environmental Law, the Penn Museum, the Penn Center for Experimental Ethnography, and the Penn Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies.
As part of his work on environmental history, he has conducted archival research in archives across Mexico and has also facilitated workshops on cartographic history and participatory mapping in Mexico, the US, Canada, Japan, and Thailand. He was a member of the Center for Experimental Ethnography at Penn and of the Emerge Matrix with the University of Toronto, Concordia University, and the University of British Columbia. This past year, he joined the Bureau of Experimental Ethnography at the University of Texas at Austin, co-organizing the “Archival Ecologies” series.
This fall, Pablo will join Professor Ciara Kieran’s ECR-funded project, “Filtercape,” as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anthropology. The project examines how nature, technology, and organisms filter in landscapes where contaminants accumulate. Through fieldwork in Denmark and Mexico, the project aims to develop new understandings of the relationship between pollution and health and to contribute solutions for more sustainable and habitable environments. As part of this project, Pablo will develop an environmental history of water management and infrastructure in Mexico, examining the progressive transformation of water and sediment flows in central Mexico over the last century.
Contact:
Pablo Aguilera Del Castillo
School of Culture and Society
Department of AnthropologyMoesgård Allé 20
Building 4215, room 218
8270 Højbjerg
aguileradelcastillo@cas.au.dk