Department of Anthropology
Bio
Gustavo Valenzuela Merino is a 2023-2024 Presidential Graduate Prize Fellowship and a Benjamin Franklin Fellow pursuing a Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. His research centers on community experiences of rural-urban interface fires in central Chile and the logic of expertise in fire management.
Education
MSc. Latin American Anthropology at the Alberto Hurtado University, Chile.
B.A. in Political Science at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
Research Interests
Environmental Anthropology, Science and Technology Studies and Cultures of Expertise, wildland-urban interface fires.