Mayarí Castillo

Mayarí Castillo is a professor at the Center for Economics and Social Policies, Universidad Mayor, Chile. She holds a Master's degree in Social Sciences from the Faculty of Latin American Studies (FLACSO – Mexico) and a PhD in Sociology from Freie Universität Berlin. Her areas of expertise include inequality and poverty, urban/environmental conflicts and environmental justice, Indigenous peoples, and qualitative methodologies. She is also a research associate at the Interdisciplinary Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Studies (CIIR), a principal investigator at the Millennium Nucleus Center for the Integrated Development of Territories (CEDIT), a fellow at the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS), and an associate researcher at the Max Planck Observatory for Socioeconomic Studies. She currently serves as Director of Doctoral Programs in the Vice-Rector's Office for Research at Universidad Mayor.