Assistant Professor, Latin American Studies
Grinter Hall 378
P.O. Box 115531
Gainesville, FL 32611-0410
Tel: 352-273-4708
Fax: 352-392-7682
E-mail: joel.correia@latam.ufl.edu
Research Interests
Indigenous politics; human rights; social and environmental justice; development; territory; political ecology; applied and participatory research methods.
Geographic Expertise
Paraguay; Southern Cone
Background
Joel E. Correia is a Center for Latin American Studies Assistant Professor. His research and teaching focus on the intersections of human rights, justice, development, and environmental change with attention to Indigenous politics in Latin America. He employs participatory research methods, ethnography, and critical social theory to investigate the lived experience of struggles for justice and political mobilization by Indigenous and rural peoples confronting human rights violations. In collaboration with community partners, Joel is interested in understanding how rights and recognition are reworked in the context of land conflicts, socio-environmental (in)justice, and territorial struggles vis-à-vis development and extractivism in Latin America. Joel’s research and teaching are informed by his work, advocacy, and time living in Paraguay, Argentina, Chile, Mexico-U.S. borderlands, Kenya, Tibet, Southern Arizona, the Colorado Front Range, and Redwood Country. For more detailed information about Joel’s research interests, ongoing projects, and publications, please visit his personal website: www.joel-correia.com.
Joel received his Ph.D. in geography with an emphasis in development studies from the University of Colorado Boulder in August 2017. He also holds an MA in Latin American Studies from the University of Arizona where he returned to work as a Postdoctoral Research Associate from 2017-2018. His academic training and research approach draw from political ecology, critical social theory, development studies, applied anthropology, and participatory qualitative research methods. To date, he has conducted research on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, Indigenous dispossession and land rights, soybean production and agrarian change, fair trade and Indigenous producer groups, and climate change adaptation.
Curriculum Vitae
Courses
- LAS 4935/6398: Human Rights in Latin America
- LAS 4935: Drug Wars and Oil Fortunes in Latin America
- LAS 6938: Indigenous politics, decolonization, and development in Latin America