Sandra Oseguera (she/her/ella) is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she examines long-term human-environmental interactions. Her dissertation focuses on long-term traditional agricultural practices among the Indigenous Zapotec people in the Northern Highlands of Oaxaca, Mexico, investigating the impact of these practices on environmental resilience and cultural persistence. Sandra's academic interests include decoloniality, food sustainability and food sovereignty discussions, traditional ecological knowledge, and archaeological approaches to landscape.
Sandra has extensive fieldwork experience doing ethnography and archaeology in Mexico and Japan, working on projects funded by the Sumimoto Foundation and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Kyoto. Sandra holds an M.A. in Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Latin American Studies from Stanford University. She earned a B.A. in Latin American Studies from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Sandra is a CONACHYT - UC MEXUS fellow and has received support from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Institute for International Studies, the Center for Japanese Studies, and the Archaeological Research Facility at UC Berkeley.
