Welcome to my personal website, where I share my academic trajectory, research projects, and scholarly contributions.
My work investigates how state policy and Indigenous territory-making intersect to shape forested landscapes.
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Clark University’s Graduate School of Geography, a board member of the Conference of Latin American Geography (CLAG), and co-chair of the LASA Environment section.
Research Interests
Indigenous Livelihoods and Lifeways in Tropical Forests
The Making of Indigenous Territories in Amazonia
Indigenous Forest Landscapes
Research projects
How and why do forests persist within Amazonian Indigenous lands? How can communities granted marginal lands and holding weak rights sustain the most stable forested landscapes in the region? My doctoral dissertation takes up these questions through a political ecological approach.
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Indigenous smallholders across Amazonia are running out of land. Typical accounts point to population growth and predict the collapse of traditional agriculture—but the reality is far more complex.
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In this auto-ethnographic research project, I reflect on my seven-year journey conducting fieldwork among peasant and Indigenous communities in Peru while coming out as lesbian and later as trans non-binary.
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Forthcoming articles
- Araujo, Ana L., Takasaki, Y., Abizaid, C., Paredes M. & Coomes, O.T. (n.d.) Policy-induced Land Scarcity among Amazonian Indigenous Territories. [Manuscript under review in Land Use Policy]
- Araujo, Ana L. (n.d.) The Political Economy of Belonging: A Transgender Framework for Ethnography in Rural Societies [Accepted for publication; In press in Antipode]
Published articles
- Araujo Raurau, A.L. & Coomes, O.T. (2026). Local institutions mediate the effects of land scarcity in Indigenous territories in Amazonia. Sustainability, 18(8), 3665. https://doi.org/10.3390/su18083665
- Araujo, Ana L. (2024). Entre la feminización del campo y el sometimiento patriarcal: Límites en el acceso a la tierra de las mujeres en comunidades campesinas de la sierra sur. Debate Agrario, 51, 153-182.
- Araujo, Ana L. (2022). El impacto del paradigma conservacionista en la expansión de la agricultura en territorios indígenas: aproximaciones desde una comunidad nativa Asháninka. Debate Agrario, 50, 145-178.
- Araujo, Ana L. (2019). De vuelta al análisis del trabajo: los impactos de la agricultura de contrata sobre los regímenes laborales agrícolas. Debate Agrario, 49, 39-66.
Books and Book Chapters
- Araujo, Ana L. (2021). ¿Puede la concentración de la tierra ser fuente de desarrollo?: Un análisis de las condiciones y bienestar de los trabajadores agroindustriales de Virú, Perú. Rome: International Land Coalition.
- Araujo, Ana L. (2020). Tierra y desigualdades de género: Cambios y continuidades en comunidades andinas de Ayacucho y Puno. Lima: SER.
- Araujo, Ana L. (2018). El lugar de la tierra en las dinámicas de diferenciación interna en la costa agroindustrial. In R. Fort et al. (Eds.), Perú: el problema agrario en debate. SEPIA XVII (pp. 543-590).
Recognitions
- AAG - Cultural and Political Ecology speciality group - Best student paper 2026
AAG - Rural geography speciality group - Best student paper 2025 - AAG - NESTVAL - AAG Council Award for Outstanding Graduate Student paper - 2024
My funding
American Geographical Society (AGS)
AGS Council Fellowship 2025
Sociedad para la Antropología de las Tierras Bajas de Sudamérica (SALSA)
The Norm and Sibby Whitten Research Fund - 2025
George Perkins Marsh Institute
Geller Research Fellowships - 2024
Office: Clark University
950 Main St, Worcester, MA 01610, United States
Geography Building - office 102 A