Sylvanna Falcon

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Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
Sociology Department
Institute for Social Transformation

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Merrill College

Wed, 4-6pm on Zoom (Fall '24): Email for link.

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Faculty of the Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

 

Affiliated faculty of Sociology.

 

Founder and director of UC Santa Cruz's Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas and co-founder of the University of California Digital Investigations Network.

Human rights, racism/antiracism, globalization, gender, transnational feminism, Latin America (Peru), United States

2024: President-Elect, Sociologists for Women in Society

Mellon Foundation Grant

2020: Golden Apple Teaching Award, Division of Social Sciences

2016 Gloria Anzaldúa Book Award, National Women’s Studies Association

Woodrow Wilson National Foundation's Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Fellow
UC Humanities Research Institute Grant
UC Center for New Racial Studies Grant

UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow

(Books only)

Human Rights Counterpublics in Perú: Contesting Tiers of Citizenship (University of Illinois Press, 2024).

 

Feminismos: Agentes de Cambio en Perú, Testimonios de Lideresas Feministas (book in Spanish and published by Kimochi Gestión Cultural, a feminist publisher in Lima, Perú, 2024). Co--edited with Shelly Grabe and Adriana Maroto Vargas. Includes co-authored introduction.

 

Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship with co-editors Catherine S. Ramírez, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Includes co-authored introduction.

 

Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism Inside the United Nations (University of Washington Press, 2016). Includes a teaching guide. WINNER of the National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Book Award.

 

Co-editor, New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights, Routledge, 2011.  Paperback version released in 2015.

Last modified: Oct 23, 2024