I am a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining UC Berkeley, I held a lecturer position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where I obtained my PhD in Anthropology in 2025. I also hold an MA degree in Latin American Studies and a BA in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin.
My research explores the relationships between urbanization, land politics, and environmental conflict in Central America. I combine ethnographic fieldwork and archival research methods to study how global urbanism shapes the use, access, and management of land and land-based resources. I examine this topic from an interdisciplinary perspective drawing on cultural anthropology, human geography, political economy/ecology, critical development studies, and critical agrarian studies.
My work has been published in academic journals such as Antipode, City & Society, and The Journal of Peasant Studies. I have also written for leading investigative journalism publications in Central America, such as El Faro, Focos, and MalaYerba.
CONTACT
Email: juliogutierrez@berkeley.edu
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