Gisselle Vila Benites Email & Phone Number

Ithaca, Ny, Us

Ithaca, Nueva York, Estados Unidos

My post-doctoral project examines the environmental remediation of abandoned mining ponds in the Peruvian Amazon. Working in collaboration with Indigenous communities and partner NGO Instituto del Bien Común, our task is to design an environmental monitoring framework that expands indigenous governance in remediation plans.

Lima

My research covers the governance of artisanal and small-scale gold mining in Peru, approaching two dimensions: a) the ebb and flow of formalization policy; b) the reorganization of the gold value chain before traceability concerns. Working with multi-sited ethnography in the Amazon, the Andes, and overseas markets, cross-cutting findings highlight rarely identified actors in chain and formalization governance, such as gold traders, processing plants, and international development organizations.

Quito, Pichincha, Ecuador

l led the learning and collaboration strategies of the National Program for the Sound Management of Chemical Substances. My goals included developing a national research agenda on persistent organic pollutants, including mercury and pesticides.

Worcester, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos

My dissertation contrasts pathways to mining formalization in Peru and Colombia. I introduce a framework attuned to the temporal dimensions of formalization and the various collectives who struggle to shape this policy. I performed a "patchy" ethnography, covering various arenas over 14 months, ranging from ethnic communities to mining conventions.

Worcester, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos

Courses: Environment & Society, Critical Environmental Histories of the US

Worcester, Massachusetts, Estados Unidos

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

TRANDES is a scholarship and advanced studies program led by PUCP (Peru) and Freie Universitat Berlin (Germany), and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development. I have collaborated with the identification of priority areas and formulation of selection criteria, supporting young researchers coming from and focusing on the Andean Region. My roles included supervising funding allocation, periodical reporting to the funding agency, and coordinating the academic organization of the program.

Graduate courses: Political ecology of water in the Andes, Sustainable Development.Undergrad courses: Sociology, Sociology of Development, Peruvian Social Reality.

I co-led the scoping study to position a unique graduate program on critical water management, bringing together a consortium of seven Latin American and European universities. I also co-developed the implementation strategy, balancing its adjustment to university structures while also enabling cross-university thematic areas and courses. Some of my responsibilities included the periodical reporting of progress to the funding body, the European Union ALFA III Program and supporting cooperation with the Water Justice Network.

I surveyed the literature on consumer behavior toward green certification and informed a framework to run a prospective study in Peru and Spain.

Ph.D. In Geography

Master Of Arts, Geography

Magister, Desarrollo Ambiental

Licenciada, Sociology