Gabriela Ore Menendez
Doctoral Candidate (Remote Sensing, GIS, Queer Archaeology)
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Gabriela holds a B.A. in Humanities, a professional title in Archaeology, and an M.A. in Andean Studies from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. She holds an M.A. in Anthropology from Vanderbilt University, where she is currently a Ph.D. Candidate. She will submit her dissertation “Legacies of Colonial Dislocation: Resettlement, Agricultural Deintensification, and Infrastructural Reclamation in Huarochirí, Peru” by May 2022. Her area of research focused on understanding past landscapes and their transformation and reclamation by local communities in the face of more extensive social changes.
Gabriela’s experience in Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities offers a unique perspective on the application of digital initiatives for social sciences and spatial analysis’ research and outreach. Gabriela’s stronghold on creative thinking to digital innovations offers an invaluable take on research areas like the humanities, social sciences, spatial analysis, remote sensing and image interpretation, and machine learning. During her time at Vanderbilt, she has integrated the Digital and Spatial Humanities as a core part of her scholarship. She has served as the graduate manager of the Spatial Analysis Research Laboratory at Vanderbilt several times and worked directly with faculty and students in developing spatial-based projects and training.
Gabriela’s second line of scholarly pursuits connects Queer Theory with Anthropological and Archaeological Scholarship. She has engaged in multiple public-facing outreach within Vanderbilt and a broader scope, in extensive service as part of the Society for American Archaeology. Gabriela is the social media co-chair for the Queer Archaeology Interest Group for the Society for American Archaeology and webmaster for the QueerArchaeology.com webpage and also part of the SAA Meeting Safety Committee. She loves technology and creative projects and has a very impractical collection of Starbucks Mugs from all over the world.
Gabriela es candidata doctoral trabajando actualmente en el desarrollo y aplicación de metodologías aplicadas a la investigación arqueológica, especialmente detección remota satelital, análisis de imágenes y tecnologías geoespaciales. Su trabajo se centra en el Periodo Colonial Temprano en los andes centrales peruanos, en particular en la región de Huarochirí. Gabriela es la directora del Proyecto Arqueológico Reducciones Toledanas Yauyos (PARTY) como parte de la investigación para su tesis doctoral. Gabriela está tambien trabajando en la incorporación the teoría Queer a la investigación arqueológica y es la co-chair de redes sociales del Queer Archaeology Interest Group de la Sociedad Americana de Arqueología, y webmaster the la página web QueerArchaelogy.com. Ella también es la responsable de la actualización de la web del departamento de antropología. Gabriela es una fan de la tecnología y tiene una poco práctica colección de tazas de Starbucks de todo el mundo.
Personal webpage: http://www.gabrielaoremenendez.com
Specializations
Remote Sensing, GIS, Queer Archaeology, Queer and feminis studies, Digital Humanities, Colonial studies, Colonial Andes, Landscape archaeology, Archaeometry and ceramic analysis
Representative Publications
Wernke, Steven A., Gabriela Oré Menéndez, Carla Hernández Garavito, Scotti Norman, Lauren Kohut, Lawrence Waller, Violetta Vylegzhanina and Giancarlo Marcone Flores. 2017. Ejes de articulación: análisis de la red espacial del Qhapac Ñan en el sur del Perú. In Nuevas tendencias en el estudio de caminos, edited by S. Chacaltana, et al., pp. 124-143. Proyecto Qhapaq Ñan, Lima.
Wernke, Steven A., Gabriela Oré, Carla Hernández, Aurelio Rodriguez, Abel Traslaviña and Giancarlo Marcone. 2016. Beyond the Basemap: Multiscalar Survey through Aerial Photogrammetry in the Andes. In Mobilizing the Past: Recent Approaches to Archaeological Fieldwork in the Digital Age, edited by E. W. Averett, et al. The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota – Mukurtu 2.0 Center for Digital Archaeology.
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