María Elena García is a Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington in Seattle. A Peruvian woman of Quechua ancestry, García received her PhD in Anthropology at Brown University and has been a Mellon Fellow at …

María Elena García is a Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington in Seattle. A Peruvian woman of Quechua ancestry, García received her PhD in Anthropology at Brown University and has been a Mellon Fellow at …

María Elena García is associate professor in the Comparative History of Ideas and the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She is also Joff Hanauer Honors Professor in Western Civilization (2018-2020).

Adjunct Faculty in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Department of Geography; Department of Anthropology; and American Indian Studies. 2010-2019. 2022-2023. 2021-2022. Advanced Seminar at the School for Advanced Research, “How Nature Works.” Santa Fe, New Mexico 2015-2016.

María Elena García is a cultural anthropologist whose work is at the intersection of Indigenous studies, Latin American Studies, and Animal Studies. Her most recent book, Gastropolitics and the Specter of Race (UC Press 2021), was awarded the 2022 Flora Tristán Prize for Best Book on Peru, a recognition given annually by the Peru section of ...

Tess Beschel, María Elena García, Nastasia Paul-Gera, J. Shelby House and Rachel Ann Rothenberg “‘The end of nature’: pedagogies of grief and more-than-human relations," in Lost Kingdom: Animal Death in the Anthropocene, eds. Arianne Conty and Wendy Wiseman (Delaware: Vernon Press, forthcoming).

María Elena García is a Professor in the Comparative History of Ideas at the University of Washington in Seattle. She is also serving as interim chair of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program at UW (2022-2023).

María Elena García is director of the Comparative History of Ideas and associate professor in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. She received her PhD in Anthropology at Brown University and has been a Mellon Fellow at …

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