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Bio
Aurora is a second year Ph.D. student currently working on her master`s thesis called A massacre at a town called Bellavista. Spatial, Racial and gender logics of deracination.
AREAS OF INTEREST: Deracination and violence, Afro-feminism, Gender, Ethnicity, Social Movements, Race, Racism and Inequalities, Coloniality of power, Feminist Critique, Decolonial Theory
Education
2008 B.A. Sociology, Universidad del Valle-Cali-Colombia
2006 Graduate Certitificat in Ethno-education, Universidad del Valle-Cali-Colombia
Research
- 2009, Research assistant: Project Declarations of mexican immigrants, 1895-1898
- 2008-2009, Research Assistant: Project Afrolatino-a diasporas-Reconfigurations of racism and new scenarios of power after 2001, Political Science Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- 2008, Coordinator of the baseline study on the effects of multiple discrimination towards afrocolombian women in Cali. European Union-FUPAD-National Network of Afrocolombian women "Kambiri"-Cali-Colombia
- 2007, Junior Consultant. Afrocolombian Evaluation: USAID Measurement (United States Agency for International Development)-Cali-Colombia
2007- 2008, Research Assistant. Project "Ethno-racial Inequalities, Collective Action, Ethnicity and Resistance in the Northern of the Valle del Cauca and the South of the department of Cauca", Universidad del Valle-Cali-Colombia
Teaching
- Spring 2009, Teaching Assistant: Social Problems, Sociology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Fall 2008, Teaching Assistant: Introduction to Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Spring 2007, Teaching Assistant: Social Representations and Ideology, Universidad del Valle
- 2006b- Teaching Assistant: Bibliographical resources, Universidad del Valle
- 2006a-Teaching Assistant: Foundations of Sociology, Universidad del Valle
