Rate My Professor Carmen Ferradás

Carmen A. Ferradás is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Binghamton University, State University of New York, and an affiliated faculty member in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program. She holds a PhD and an MPhil from the City University of New York. Her research specializations include anthropology and development, social impact assessment, social movements, Latin America, communication and discourse analysis, globalization and localism, political ecology, consumption, urban anthropology, borders, and globalization in Latin America.

Ferradás, a social anthropologist, focuses on the critical analysis of development processes' impacts on local populations. She has studied popular responses to hydroelectric projects and resettlement policies in Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil. She has conducted action research with students among Southeast Asian refugees in the Binghamton area. Currently, she examines global-local dynamics in three frontier cities in the Latin American Southern Cone. Ferradás authored Power in the Southern Cone Borderlands: An Anthropology of Development Practice in 1998. She teaches ANTH 363/LACS 363: Anthropology of Developing Nations. She received a Harpur College faculty endowment for preliminary fieldwork in Argentina unraveling the political, economic, and environmental entanglements of the new industrial complex of cattle production. She accepts graduate students by contact and was named a career champion by Binghamton University.