Título/Appointment: Catedrática Auxiliar
Departamento/Department: Instituto de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias
Institución/Institution: UPR-Cayey
E-mail: rosa.ficek@upr.edu
Teléfono/Phone: (787) 738-2161, ext. 2615

 

Perfiles en línea/Online Profiles:
Google Scholar
Academia

 

Preparación Académica/Education:

Ph. D. Anthropology
Concentration in Latin American and Latino Studies
University of California-Santa Cruz

B. A. Anthropology and Spanish
Cornell University

 

Áreas de investigación/Research interests:
La Dra. Ficek es antropóloga ambiental y sus intereses de investigación se enfocan en temas relacionados a la tecnología, el colonialismo y el cambio ecológico en el Caribe y América Latina.

 

Investigaciones/Research:

    • The culture in history of the Pan American Highway
    • Especies introducidas, nación y naturaleza en Puerto Rico
    • Cuidado colectivo: Respuestas a los desastres en Puerto Rico

 

Publicaciones/Publications:

    1. Janelle Baker, Paulla Ebron, Rosa Ficek, Karen Ho, Renya Ramirez, Zoe Todd, Anna Tsing, and Sarah Vaughn (forthcoming) From Devastation to Wonder, in Richard Grusin and Maureen Ryan, eds., The Long 2020, University of Minnesota Press.
    2. Rosa Ficek (2021) La carretera de Darién, el estado panameño, y los pastos sin historia (1971-1977), en Zunino Singh, D., Gruschetsky, V., y Piglia, M. (coordinadores) Pensar las infraestructuras en Latinoamérica. Buenos Aires: Editorial Teseo.
    3. Rosa Ficek (2021) Collisions at the Crossroads: How Place and Mobility Make Race by Genevieve Carpio (book review). Journal of Transport History (online first).
    4. Janelle Baker, Paulla Ebron, Rosa Ficek, Karen Ho, Renya Ramirez, Zoe Todd, Anna Tsing, and Sarah Vaughn (2020) No place to hide: A sensorium, Orion Magazine: People and Nature (Winter 2020).
    5. Rosa Ficek (2020) Pasture grasses are barriers to forest regeneration in Latin America, in Tsing, A., Deger, J., Keleman Saxena, A., and Zhou, F. (eds) Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
    6. Rosa Ficek (2019) Cattle, Capital, Colonization: Tracking Creatures of the Anthropocene in and out of Human Projects. Current Anthropology 60(S20): S260-S271.
    7. Rosa Ficek (2018) Infrastructure and Colonial Difference in Puerto Rico after Hurricane María. Transforming Anthropology 26(2):102-117.
    8. Rosa Ficek (2018) Decentering the State in Automobility Regimes, review of The Making of the African Road, edited by Kurt Beck, Gabriel Klager and Michael Stasik. Transfers 8(3):135-145.
    9. Rosa Ficek (2017) Driving the Pan American Highway from North to South/Conduciendo la Carretera Panamericana de norte a sur. Mobility in History, April 10.
    10. Rosa Ficek (2016) Imperial Routes, National Networks, and Regional Projects in the Pan-American Highway, 1884-1977. Journal of Transport History 37(2):129-154.