Ana Laura Boeno Malmaceda
I work on knowledge circulation between 19th-century naturalists and the relationship between gender, nature, and colonialism in their scientific practice.
Visiting PhD student
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Ana Laura Malmaceda is a writer, researcher, and media artist. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Romance Languages at Harvard University, where she studies ecological thinking and the environmental history of the Amazon River basin through the Thayer Expedition’s archives (1865–6).
At the médialab, she works on knowledge circulation between 19th-century naturalists and the relationship between gender, nature, and colonialism in their scientific practice. She is writing the first chapter of her thesis, a portrait of archaeological practices in the mid-19th century at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris. Ana Laura is also finishing the editing and post-production of my first documentary, VEROPA, a visual ethnography on the Ver-o-Peso market, in Belém do Pará, in the Brazilian Amazon.