Two-year postdoc at USC on mapping aquifers in Costa Rica - apps due 3/31
Andrea Ballestero (USC Anthropology) is hiring a postdoc for her NSF-funded project, Expanding the Social World Downwards, which examines how the increasing scientific and governmental attention paid to aquifers in Costa Rica is transforming both spatial imaginaries of the underground and the meaning of private property. Applications are due by March 31st for full consideration.
This is a two-year postdoc that will lead a collaborative mapping arm of the project, building databases with spatial, visual, sonic, and historical inputs. We welcome candidates with core competencies in geospatial visualization, GIS or similar technologies, and doctoral level research experience on, but not limited to: water, the underground, multimodal qualitative analysis, space and place, environmental history and science, and related themes. Candidates can come from (inter)disciplinary backgrounds including but not limited to: anthropology, critical sociology, STS, geography, media studies, critical design studies, data visualization, design. Candidates with experience working with data sources, archives, and collaborators in Latin America or the Global South more broadly are particularly welcome. An ability to communicate in Spanish is highly desirable.
