About

Pilar Delpino-Marimón is a Ph.D. candidate in the Graduate School of Geography at Clark University, in Worcester MA. She holds a BA in Geography and Environmental Studies from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and a Master in Regional Planning from Cornell University. Her interests are Amazonian geographies, political ecology, border studies, infrastructure development and logistics, and critical visualizations.

Her doctoral research focuses on the impacts of unimplemented infrastructure projects in the Amazon. Her dissertation is on the effects of the unbuilt Pucallpa - Cruzeiro do Sul infrastructure project. This is an infrastructure project meant to integrate the borderlands between Peru and Brazil. In her work she combines various qualitative methods: interviews, archival methods, GIS and other visualizations tools.

She has taught Geography courses in Peru at Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas and at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. During her time at Cornell she has taught GIS courses as a Graduate Research and Teaching Specialist, and has been a FLAC instructor teaching Spanish courses on Privatization and Environmental Economics. While at Clark University she has worked as a Teaching Assistant in Psychogeography, Geospatial Analysis using R, and Research Design and Methods in Geography.

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Research

  • 2024 - 2026. Analysis of the potential social and environmental impacts of the Chancay mega-port and large-scale landscape change in the Peruvian Amazon.
    Research scholar and Co-PI with The Clark Center for the Study of Natural Resource Extraction and Society, Derecho Ambiente y Recursos Naturales; and Center for China and Asia-Pacific Studies. Research funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.

  • 2019 - 2024. Evaluating the effects of unimplemented infrastructure projects in the Peruvian and Brazilian borderlands.
    Doctoral research funded by the Conference of Latin American Geography Field Study Grant, Clark University Harvard Fund Enhancement Award, Geller Research Grant, and the SWG Pruitt National Fellowship for Dissertation Research.

  • 2021 - 2022. Mapping for Just Cities: Towards a Geospatial Analysis of Race, Place and Policing.
    Research Assistant. Project funded by the Urban Studies Foundation.

  • 2020 - 2021. SESYNC Pursuit: Governing Infrastructure working group.
    Research Assistant for The Clark Center for the Study of Natural Resource Extraction and Society.
    Project funded by The National Socio- Environmental Synthesis Center.
    Assesing infrastructure development and extraction-led land use change in
    the Selva Maya and Western Amazonia.

  • 2016 - 2018. Rural territorial coalitions as a strategy for cross-border governance: The case of the Peru-Bolivia-Brazil tri-border area.
    Master's thesis. Project funded by Engaged Cornell Travel grant and Cornell University's Latin American Studies Program Fellowship.

  • 2016 - 2018. Learning from Flint and Beyond: the Michigan Emergency Manager Law Research Project.
    Student researcher. Project funded by the Engaged Cornell Opportunity Grant.

  • 2007 - 2011. Geological tourism in Peru.

Publications

Delpino-Marimón, P., Guillén-Araya, M., Hudlet-Vázquez, K., & Vila-Benites, G. (2022). La potencia del enojo en la producción del conocimiento académico. GEOgraphia , 24 (53), Article 53. https://doi.org/10.22409/GEOgraphia2022.v24i53.a55625

Cuba, N., Sauls, L., Bebbington, A., Humphreys Bebbington, D., Chicchon, A., Delpino Marimon, P., Díaz, O., Hecht, S., Kandel, S., Osborne, T., Ray, R., Rogan, J., & Zalles, V. (2022). Emerging hot spot analysis to indicate forest conservation priorities and efficacy on regional to continental scales: A study of forest change in Selva Maya 2000-2020. Environmental Research Communications , 4 . https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7620/ac82de

Delpino Marimón, P., Humphreys Bebbington, D., Bebbington, A. J., Sauls, L. A., Cuba, N., Chicchon, A., Hecht, S., Rogan, J., Ray, R., Diaz, O., Kandel, S., Osborne, T., Rivera, M., & Zalles, V. (2021). ‘Tradescapes’ in the forest: Framing infrastructure’s relation to territory, commodities, and flows. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability , 53 , 29–36. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2021.10.004

Contact

E-mail: pdelpinomarimon@clarku.edu

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pilar-delpino-marimon/

ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pilar-Delpino-Marimon

GitHub: Pdelpinomarimon