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Bio
Aurora is a third year Ph.D. student in residence originally from the Pacific coast of Colombia.
RESEARCH/TEACHING INTERESTS: Sociological Theory, Critical Race Theory, Political Economy, Political Sociology, Comparative Historical Sociology, Race Relations, Feminist Critique, Race, Class and Gender, Social Inequality, World-Systems, Diasporic Studies, Sociology of Law, Critical Geography, Philosophy of History
Education
2008 B.A. Sociology, Universidad del Valle-Cali-Colombia
2006 Graduate Certitificate in Ethno-education, Universidad del Valle-Cali-Colombia
Research
Master Thesis: Ripped From The Land, Shipped Away, And Reborn The Massacre Of Bellavista And Its Conceptual And Socio-Geo-Historical Dimensions Aurora has completed her master thesis which is an extended case-based study of a massacre occurred in the communitarian church of Bellavista-Bojayá-Chocó- Colombia in the morning of May 2nd of 2002. In this horrifying event 119 people were murdered, more than 150 people were injured, and approximately 1.744 families were deracinated. This monograph addresses the question of how the context of place-based ethno-territorial social mobilization and violence of the territories of the state of Chocó enlighten alternative ways to comprehend experiences of ‘forced displacement/migration’, and new cycles of Diaspora of Afrodescendent populations.
- 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 2010, Theories and Perspectives, Sociology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- Fall 2009, Theories and Perspectives,Sociology Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
- 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
