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Alexandra Lamiña is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and Urban Studies Education at the University of Connecticut (Storrs campus). Her research focuses on Indigenous geographies, decolonizing planning practices, and Amazonian studies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin (2024). Her work integrates participatory cartography and community-engaged research to address settler colonialism, urbanization impacts, and Indigenous knowledge systems.
Education: Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin (2024).
Research interests include Indigenous planning methodologies, gender and urban displacement dynamics, and the intersection of cartography with decolonial theory. Her recent work critiques settler urbanism in Ecuadorian Amazonia and examines emotional geographies in planning processes. She collaborates on projects addressing land rematriation and participatory mapping with Indigenous communities.
Her publications analyze urban-indigenous dynamics through frameworks of decolonization, including contributions to the Routledge Handbook of Southern Urbanism and Sage Research Methods. Her research has been applied to cases such as stormwater development conflicts in the Dominican Republic and Kichwa cartographic practices in Ecuador.
Lamiña's work is affiliated with the Human-Environment Dynamics and Spatial Analysis of Social Issues research clusters at UConn. She currently advises no formal graduate students but collaborates extensively with global Indigenous communities on applied research projects.
