He has published on issues including energy resource conflicts, peasant mobilization, and social justice in Bolivia. In 2012, he was a visiting professor in the History Department at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. He received a PhD in geography from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he focused on agrarian change, political mobilization, and identity construction among Quichua of the Alto Napo in Ecuadorian Amazonia. He served as an Americas analyst for Freedom in the World.