The Desertmakers: Travel, War, and the State in Latin America

Santiago Acosta is the PRODiG Fellow at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Old Westbury, with a dual appointment in the Department of Modern Languages and the History and Philosophy Department. He holds a PhD in Latin American and Iberian Cultures from Columbia University. His academic research centers on modern and contemporary Latin American cultural production, which he analyzes through the lenses of critical theory, political economy, and environmental history.