WHO WE ARE
GABRIELA ACEVES SEPULVEDA is a Ph.D. in History and Liu Institute Alumnus at the University of British Columbia. Her doctoral research examined the intersections between visual arts and politics at work in the practices of various women artists in post-1968 Mexico. She is interested in looking at how the practices of these artists, including performances, street demonstrations, films, video art and the making of archives disrupt and intervene disciplinary boundaries and hegemonic visual archives challenging established structures of power and knowledge. She is currently a Lecturer at Simon Fraser University. You may visit her personal website here.
SARAH BROWN is a Ph.D. student in Geography and Liu Institute Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her research examines the political implications of international adoption from Guatemala to North America. The aims of this research are to examine how inequalities and ongoing imperial legacies structure the practice of adopting children from Guatemala; to document the lived implications of international adoption for birth parents, adoptive parents, and children; and to suggest how recent organizing efforts on different sides of adoption debates seek to (re)structure the intimate politics North-South relations.
MARIE-EVE CARRIER-MOISAN is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University (since July 2012). She completed a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of British Columbia, where she was also Liu Institute Alumnus. Since 2003, she has based her work in the Northeast of Brazil, exploring the intersections of gender, migration and globalization. More specifically, she has conducted an ethnography of sex tourism in Ponta Negra – a tourist area in the city of Natal, Brazil. She has also written about the possibilities and limits of feminist activism in new political spaces across Latin America, as part of published collaborative work with Pluto Press, Contesting Publics: Feminism, Activism, Ethnography (2013) with Sally Cole, Lynne Phillips and Erica Lagalisse. She is currently working on a SSHRC-funded project, “Moral Panic, Public Emotions, and the 2014 World Cup: The Campaigns against Sex Tourism and Sex Trafficking in Natal, Brazil”. This project, based in Natal, Brazil seeks both to map out the material effects of the moral panic associated with mega-sporting events for local sex workers, and to understand the role of public emotions in mobilizing against sex tourism and in making some repressive interventions against local sex workers publicly thinkable and acceptable. You may visit her personal website here.
ORALIA GÓMEZ-RAMÍREZ is a Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology and Liu Institute Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her research focuses on trans politics and sex work in Mexico, specifically looking at trans sex workers’ most recent efforts to obtain legal, health, and social rights.
MANUELA VALLE is a Ph.D. Candidate in Women’s and Gender Studies and Liu Institute Scholar at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include the gendered and sexualized dimensions of political economy, such as the gendered and sexual narratives of neoliberalism, and the intersections between gender and nationalism. Her research project aims to explore how in Latin American post-dictatorship societies such as the Chilean, the continued legacy of an authoritarian culture limits the exercise of citizenship and rights for women and men and children, arguing that a real democratization in these societies requires the transformation of gender meanings and sexual imaginaries.
LAST UPDATED: JANUARY 4, 2015