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Andrea Ballestero is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern California's Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences. Her work bridges political and legal anthropology, STS, and social studies of finance and economics, focusing on techno-science, governance, and regulatory spaces. She directs the Ethnography Studio, an interdisciplinary platform for collaborative ethnographic research.
Her first book, A Future History of Water (2019), examines how water transitions between a human right and a commodity. She co-edited Experimenting with Ethnography (2021), exploring ethnographic analysis methodologies. Current research includes 'Expanding the Social World Downwards,' studying subterranean spaces and aquifers through legal and technological lenses, supported by grants from Mellon, NSF, and Fulbright.
Her work engages with climate change, volumetric awareness, and the intersection of law, technology, and economics. Awards include the National Science Foundation Grant and Wenner-Gren Foundation support. She collaborates on projects like 'Retooling' with scholars from ASU and Harvard, addressing adaptive technoscientific strategies in turbulent contexts.
