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Joshua Mayer is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Social & Critical Inquiry at the University of Connecticut. His research focuses on settler colonialism, imperialism, and Black and Indigenous governance in Latin America, particularly among the Rama and Kriol peoples of Nicaragua. He employs community-collaborative ethnographic methods to study territorial dispossession driven by extractive industries like beef and gold production.
Education: Ph.D. (2023) in Anthropology from UCLA, M.A. (Social Sciences) from University of Chicago, B.A. (Political Science) from Amherst College. Former visiting researcher at Universidad Centroamericana, Nicaragua.
Research Interests: African diasporic politics, Indigenous studies, political ecology, and abolitionism. Current book project: Conjuring Territory: Afro-Indigenous Authority and Settler Capitalism in Nicaragua. Second project: Please Steal Responsibly examines corporate social responsibility in land dispossession.
Teaching: Courses include Latin American social movements, African diaspora anthropology, and critical development studies. Advocacy: Fellow at the Oakland Institute, expert witness in asylum cases, and organizer with Cops Off Campus and UAW Local 2865.
