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Tami Okamoto is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge (expected 2024), specializing in postcolonial territory and critical geographies of indigeneity. Her research focuses on autonomous indigenous territory-making in the Peruvian Amazon, particularly with the Wampis Nation. She holds affiliations with the Infrastructural Geographies research group and has collaborated extensively with Amazonian Indigenous peoples for over a decade. Okamoto’s work interrogates colonial notions of territory, spatial governance, and Eurocentric cartographies.
Education includes a BSc (Honours) from the University of British Columbia (2009), an MSc from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (2011), and visiting scholar positions at the University of Oslo (2022). She has received numerous grants including the National Geographic Early Career Grant (2019–2023) and multiple awards from the Royal Geographical Society and American Association of Geographers.
Teaching roles include supervising undergraduate modules at Cambridge (e.g., Geographies of Postcolonialism, Development Theories) and lecturing at the University of Oslo and UC Santa Cruz. Her research outputs span peer-reviewed articles on environmental health impacts of oil extraction and collaborative policy reports with Indigenous nations.
Awards highlight her contributions to decolonial methodologies and environmental justice, including the AAG Graduate Student Research Award (2022) and Society of Latin American Studies grants. Okamoto is a member of the Decolonial Research Lab and serves on peer-review boards for journals like Espiral Revista de Geografías y Ciencias Sociales.
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