Maria Elena Garcia

Maria Elena Garcia is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her affiliations include the College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of Anthropology. She focuses on Animal Studies, Indigenous Sociocultural Anthropology, and questions of identity in Latin America, with specific regional expertise in Peru and the Andes.

Her research interests intersect indigenous movements, cultural identity, and human-animal relationships in Andean contexts. She has contributed to studies on how socio-political movements in Latin America engage with ecological and cultural preservation.

No scientific awards or grants are explicitly listed in the provided text. She advises no students in the listed data. Her contact details include meg71@uw.edu and an office in Padelford B102.