Student Affiliate
His name is Franklin Reynel Bonivento van Grieken. He studied Anthropology (honor degree, 2019) and a master’s degree in History (Cum Laude thesis, 2022) at the National University of Colombia in Bogotá, Colombia. As a son, and grandson, of indigenous Wayuu women, and as a son of a Jewish man, his academic life has been focused on comprehending his own roots and finding ways to communicate them, as well as on Caribbean history, Wayuu people cosmovision, oralities, migrations, frontiers, and musicology. In that respect, he has explored different formats such as essays, creative narratives, and since 2015 he has been engaged in radio broadcasting and podcasting. This experience of creation has served as a form to make and show research: exploring the sound-essays, radio-documentaries, podcasting, among others. He has worked, too, in museography, writing books, fieldwork, and has always considered interdisciplinary work more of a conviction than an option, jumping between the boundaries of disciplines to have big conversations and to find methods and techniques to apprehend our reality, therefore finding new questions, new responses, and new audiences.
