Columba Gonzalez Duarte, Postdoctoral Fellow

Home Campus:
U of T St. George
PhD:
Socio-cultural Anthropology with a Collaborative Degree at the School of Environment, University of Toronto (2019)
Other Degrees:
Master in Socio-cultural Anthropology, Universidad Iberoamericana – Mexico City (2008)
Bachelor in Cultural Anthropology, Universidad de las Americas-Puebla - Cholula, Mexico (2004)
Supervisor(s):
Post-doctoral supervisor: Scott Prudham
Ph.D. Supervisor: Hillary Cunningham
Contact Information:
100 St. George Street, Room 5027
Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
columba.gonzalez@utoronto.ca
Personal Website: http://utoronto.academia.edu/ColumbaGonzalezDuarte
Research Interests:
- Multi-species ethnography
- Posthumanities
- Insect-human studies
- Conservation and environmental justice
- Migration studies
- Borderlands
- Neoliberalism in North America
- Cyber-politics
- Monarch Butterflies
Selected Publications:
Gonzalez-Duarte, Columba
2019 “The Dearest Butterfly. A Nonlinear, yet Stratified Human-Butterfly Ethnography” Ph.D. thesis. Supervisor: Hillary Cunningham
2017 Resisting Monsanto: Monarch butterflies and cyber-actors. In Resistance to the Neoliberal Agri-Food Regime. Ed Alessandro Bonanno and Steven Wolf. Pp 165-179. New York: Routledge