Visiting Scholar Directory

2024-2025 Academic Year

IGSR Scholars-in-Residence

Sandra Pacheco
Flourish Fellow, BCSP Psychedelics in Society Culture
Mesoamerican Indiginous Women Healers: Practices, politics, and the call for respect, responsibility,
and reciprocity of next generation healers

Appointment dates: September 2024 to August 2025

Jaclyn Wong
Assistant Professor in Sociology, University of South Carolina
Revisiting Gender Inequality in Housework
Appointment dates: September 2024 to May 2025

GWS Postdoctoral Scholars

Amir Aziz
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Producing  Terror:  Secularism, Islamophobia & the Anti-Terrorism Regime in France
Faculty sponsor: Minoo Moallem

IGSR Visiting Student Researchers

Oluwabukola Adeyemi
Master's student in International Relations at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Black Women, Human Rights And Economic Empowerment: A Study Of UN Women's Projects In Brazil and Nigeria
Faculty sponsor: Paola Bacchetta
Appointment dates: October 1, 2024 to January 31, 2025

Camila Freitas de Souza
Phd Student in Human Rights Studies, Lund University, Sweden
Brazilian Women’s Movements: Grassroots as a mechanism for emancipation in (de)colonial times
Faculty sponsor: Leslie Salzinger
Appointment dates: September 15 to December 15, 2024

Márcia Ribeiro
PhD Student, Gender, Sexuality and Law,
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
ZONES OF BEING AND (NON) BEING: law, gender and anti-blackness in Brazil
Faculty sponsor: Patrice D. Douglass
Appointment dates: Spring 2025

Matheuzza Xavier
PhD Student in Performing Arts, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil
TRAVESTILITIES: Dialogues between the US Queer Scene and Brazilian Travestility
Faculty sponsor: Dora Silva Santana
Appointment dates: November 1, 2024 to April 30, 2025