Universidad Nacional de Colombia (National University of Colombia)
Faculty Member, Departamento de Historia
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Rachel Carson Center
Associate Professor
Facultad de Ciencias Humanas
About
STEFANIA GALLINI holds an M.A. in Latin American Studies studies from the University of London and a Ph.D. in Latin American History history from the Università degli Studi di Genova. She is an associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá, where she coordinates the Environmental History Group. She has been interested in rural environmental history—especially coffee plantations in Guatemala and cattle ranching in Colombia—but recently started exploring urban environmental issues through a research project on the history of waste in Bogotá. She contributed to books and journals published in Latin America, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom in the field of environmental history. Her book "Una historia ambiental del café en Guatemala: la La Costa Cuca, 1830–1902 (Guatemala City: AVANCSO, 2009) has been rewarded with the Elinor Melville prize for Latin American Environmental History in 2010.
In 2010 (july to december) and 2011 (july-august) she is also a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environmental History in Munich (July-Dec. 2010) working on waste history in Bogotá since the late XIX c.
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