University of Massachusetts Amherst

Department of Sociology

 

 

 


Aurora Vergara



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

 

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