About us
Researchers from different institutions and a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, sociology, environmental management, agrarian sciences, and urbanism and planning, working on a common interdisciplinary project.
We work as a network to strengthen our individual projects and enrich our collective insights into the waters of Cuyo.
Co Directors
Mark Healey
CO DIRECTOR
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Associate Professor and Head of the Department of History of the University of Connecticut. Received his undergraduate training in civil engineering at Princeton University and doctoral training in Latin American History at Duke University. Before coming to Connecticut, he taught at New York University, the University of Mississippi, and the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on environmental history, urban history, and water history in modern Latin America. In 2013 he first encountered the archives of the Departamento General de Irrigiación as part of a fellowship funded by Fulbright and the Social Science Research Council, which marked the beginning of the Cuyo Waters Lab.
Contact: mark.healey@uconn.edu
Facundo Martín
CO DIRECTOR
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ICONICET Researcher in INCIHUSA CCT Mendoza and Professor of the Geography Department of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. He holds a doctorate in Social Science from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a Master’s in Agrarian Social Studies from FLACSO/Buenos Aires, and an undergraduate degree as an Agronomist Engineer from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Since 2006 he has received multiple fellowships for academic research abroad, in Brazil, Germany, Colombia, and the US. He currently holds a Georg Foster Fellowship from the Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation in Germany (2024-2025).
His research is focused on political ecology, environmental history, and digital humanities.
Contact: fmartin@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
Team members
Marianel Falconer
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Holds an undergraduate degree in History from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and is currently a doctoral student in History at the Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, with a doctoral fellowship from CONICET CONICET through INCIHUSA CCT Mendoza. Her research is focused on the governance of water in the first half of the 20th century in Mendoza.
Contact: m.falconer90@gmail.com
Juan Pablo Fili
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Doctor en Estudios Sociales Agrarios por el Centro de Estudios Avanzados de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Licenciado y Profesor en Sociología por la Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. Becario Doctoral CONICET entre 2015 y 2022. Investigador del Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria.
Contact: juanpablo_fili@yahoo.com
Martín Federico Ortiz
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Licenciado in Environmental Management, Master’s in Environment and Sustainable Development from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, he is currently a doctoral student in Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo with a doctoral fellowship from CONICET, through INCIHUSA CCT Mendoza. Profesor in the Faculty of Environment, Architecture, and Urbanism of the Universidad de Congreso (Mendoza). His research is focused on environmentalism in Mendoza – scientific, governmental, and social. He is a talented street photographer and works on digitizing of archives.
Contact:
martinfederico.ortiz@gmail.com
Laura Ortega
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Professor of Environmental Administration in the Faculty of Politicial and Social Sciences, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. She holds an undergraduate degree in Political Science from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and a doctorate in Social Sciences from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. She is interested in regional students from a political historical perspective, and forms part of the Red Interdisciplinaria de Estudios sobre Gestión del Agua (RIEGA, founding member) coordinated by the Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Brazil).
Contact: lauralorenaortegaguevara@gmail.com
Facundo Fernández Rinaldi
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Licenciado and Professor in History from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, with a diploma in Public History from the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, he is currently a doctoral student in Human and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, with a doctoral fellowship from CONICET through INCIHUSA CCT Mendoza. He teaches in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras of Universidad Nacional de Cuyo.
Contact: fernandezrinaldi@gmail.com
Facundo Rojas
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CONICET Researcher in the Grupo de Historia Ambiental, Instituto Argentino de Nivología, Glaciología y Ciencias Ambientales (IANIGLA), CCT Mendoza. Associate Professor of Epistemology of Geography and Vice Director of the Institute of Geography, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. He holds a doctorate in Geography from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo and is a member of the Sociedad Latinoamericana y Caribeña de Historia Ambiental (SOLCHA) and the Political Ecology Group of CLACSO.
Contact: facundoroj@gmail.com
Elma Montaña
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CONICET Researcher in the Instituto de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales, Humanas y Ambientales (INCIHUSA(, CCT Mendoza, and Professor of Urban and Rural Sociology in the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo. She holds a professional degree in Architectures from the University of Mendoza a specialization in Urban and Regional Planning from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, a specialization in Higher Education from the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, and a doctorate in Latin American Societies, as well as a doctoral in Geography and Territorial Organization with specialization in Regional Development, from the University of Paris III (Sorbonne). Her research focuses on the political ecology fo water and the social dimensions of environmental change in arid regions.
Contact: emontana@mendoza-conicet.gob.ar
Strategic Allies
Prior Team Members and Collaborators
Over the course of this project our team has included various other talented researchers who have contributed their time, capabilities, and knowledges to this endeavor.