Scholars@Duke
Miguel Rojas Sotelo

Miguel Rojas Sotelo

Program Coord
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
miguel.rojassotelo@duke.edu
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
205 Languages Building, Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours

Recent Courses

CINE 315S: Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts
Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
CINE 791: Independent Study
Fall 2025
DOCST 315S: Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts
Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
ENVIRON 315S: Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts
Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
ENVIRON 393: Research Independent Study
Spring 2024, Fall 2023
ENVIRON 394: Research Independent Study
Spring 2024
ENVIRON 593: Independent Studies and Projects
Fall 2025
ENVIRON 899: Master's Project
Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
ENVIRON 982: DEL: Sustainable Development in Colombia
Spring 2026, Spring 2024
LATAMER 315S: Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts
Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023
VMS 309S: Environmental Issues & the Documentary Arts
Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2023

Teaching Summary

Nicholas School of the Environment Fellow.
Instructor: Narrating Nature: Documentaries for Environmental Studies
Duke Leadership Program (DEL): Sustainable Development in Latin America

Visiting Faculty. Duke Kunshan University
Undergraduate Program
International Masters on Environmental Policy

Co-Director Raíces, Rutas y Ritmos Project. 

Co-Director DukeEngage Colombia

Co-Convener. Environmental Humanities Working Group. Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University

Bass Connections. Environmental Justice in North Carolina

Advising & Mentoring Summary

GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED (selection):
  • Victoria Guillem. Memorias del Teatro Victoria en Porto Viejo. Ecuador. MFAEDA, 2026 (co-advisor)
  • Beverly Goll Yekeson. AN EXPLORATION OF THE BEGINNING OF THE ENERGY TRANSITION IN LA GUAJIRA, COLOMBIA. MEM, Nicholas School of the Environment. Duke University. 2023 (advisor)
  • Pablo Mino Navarrete. Branding the Nations of the South. Ph.D. Communications Department. UNC-Chapel Hill. Spring 2022 (committee member)
  • Simone Ferrari. “Los derroteros del palabrandar. Escrituras de Resistencia en el pueblo Nasa en Colombia 1970-2020.” Ph.D. Program in Linguistics and Intercultural Literature. University of Milan. Italy. 2021 (committee member)
  • Ginette Paulina Miranda. Cultural Translation: from text to image. Master in Liberal Studies. Duke University. 2018 (advisor)
  • Danny Kim. Still Waters. Master in Fine Arts and Experimental Documentary Arts (MFAEDA). 2018·       
  • Ginette Paulina Miranda. Cultural Translation: from text to image. Master in Liberal Studies. Duke University. 2018·       
  • María Magdalena Berrios. Chilean Diasporas: Exile and cultural production. Duke University. 2018·       
  • Marisol Silva. CAM Unacompanied Children and the Policy Response (2012-2017). Duke University. 2018·       
  • Carla Cella. Transforming Globalization: from Deterioration to Regeneration. Master in Liberal Studies (MALS). Duke University. 2015·       
  • Leonor Clavijo. The Untold Stories of Successful Latinas in North Carolina. Master in Liberal Studies. Duke University. 2014·       Annabel Manning. Out of the Shadows: Undocumented and Unafraid. Master in Fine Arts and Experimental Documentary Arts (MFAEDA). 2013