Carlos A. Batista

I am a social anthropologist in training with interests in political, linguistic, and environmental anthropology. My current research examines Indigenous resistance to infrastructural displacement across Mexico, specifically focusing on the construction of the Inter-Oceanic Railway Corridor in the Tehuantepec Isthmus and the touristic Mayan Train in the Yucatan Peninsula. 

I have previously conducted research on the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, the politics of infrastructure in Mexico City, and ethnic and racial discrimination in Mexico at large. 

Before coming to Columbia, I did an M.Sc. in Nature, Society, and Environmental Governance at the University of Oxford (2020) and a B.A. in International Relations at the Colegio de Mexico (2018). I have also worked as a consultant for the Rockefeller Foundation's program "100 Resilient Cities" and as a project manager for the Colegio de Mexico's project on "Ethnic and Racial Discrimination," which was funded by Oxfam and the Kellogg Foundation.