Departamento: Departamento de Filosofía y Antropología

Facultad: Facultad de Filosofía

Instituto: Instituto de Investigación de Humanidades (iHUS)

Área: Antropología Social

Grupo de investigación: Antropología Socio-Cultural

Email: diego.allen-perkins@usc.es

Doctor por la UNED. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia con la tesis Asamblea: una etnografía de ensamblajes por hacer Apuntes para una antropología de lo eventual 2020. Dirigida por Dr/a. Montserrat Cañedo Rodríguez.

Diego Allen-Perkins (Madrid, Spain, 1985) received a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the National University of Distance Education (UNED), in February 2021, and a MSc Degree in Anthropological Research (UNED), in July 2014. He has worked at various universities in Spain and at the Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador). Ongoing I+D projects: ‘Emerging Cultures of Mobile Precarity in the Digital Gig Economy: A case study about the food delivery-sector in Spain’ (Funding agency: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain, 2021-2023). Former I+D projects: 'Philosophical Thought on Culture, Ethics and Democracy. Political participation in Ecuador and its relation with Spain' (Funding agency: Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Start-finish date: 30/07/2015 - 23/12/2016). 'Program of curricular redesign of undergraduate degrees in the socio-humanistic area' (Funding agency: Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Start-finish date: 30/07/2015 - 23/12/2016). 'Enteogenic Ancestral Substances in Ecuador' (Funding agency: Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Start-Finish date: 04/20/2015 - 12/23/2016). 'The reception of the European Western tradition in contemporary Ibero-American and Ecuadorian thought' (Funding agency: Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja; Start-Finish date: 05/01/2015 - 23/12/2016).