Assistant Professor
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Political Theory
- Development Studies
Areas of Interest
- Political violence in and against the Global South
- The illicit global economy
- Critical development studies
- Feminist theory and methods
- Anticolonial and decolonial thought
Biography
Her book project examines the gendered political economy of transnational gang violence in Central America. As part of an SSHRC-funded international team, María is working to document and commemorate the history of the Salvadoran Civil War. Recent publications: Acuerpar: The decolonial feminist call for embodied solidarity in Signs (2023) and Studying Gangs in Central and South America: Reflections on Gender and Researcher Positionality in The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society (2024).
Education
BA, Vassar College
PhD, University of Minnesota