Senior Fellows

Macarena Trujillo Cristoffanini holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Barcelona, with a master's degree in sociological research (UB) and gender equality (UCM). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Gender Studies at Rovira i Virgili University (Spain).

Magdalena Perkowska holds a PhD in Spanish and Hispanic Literatures from Rutgers, The State University of New Jeresey, USA, and a Full Professor of Latin American Literature at Hunter College and The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her areas of specialization include Latin American narrative of the 20th twentieth and 21st twenty-first centuries, with emphasis on Central America, literary and cultural theory, visual and memory studies, and affect theories.

Rike Bolte holds a PhD in Latin American Studies and Cultural Studies from the Humboldt University of Berlin (ADLAF Prize 2012).  Master of Arts in Hispanic Studies and Germanistics from the Humboldt University, and Latin American Studies from the Free University of Berlin.

Lucero de Vivanco holds a PhD in Hispanic American Literature from the University of Chile and a Full Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the Alberto Hurtado University. His research explores the relationships between literature, history, culture, politics, violence and society in Latin America. He is currently leading a research project on the figure of the victim in cultural productions in Peru, Chile and Haiti.

Eva Youkhana is a training anthropologist who is a researcher and director at the Center for Development Studies where she applies reflective, critical and spatially sensitive perspectives, concepts and methods to urban, migration, conflict and development studies, in addition to teaching feminist theory and postcolonial studies.

María Gabriela Lugones is a researcher in the Social Sciences area of the Research Center of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, and a professor of Cultural Anthropology at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina.

Marcelo Sánchez Delgado holds a PhD in Latin American Studies from the University of Chile and is currently an academic at the Center for Latin American Cultural Studies CECLA and the Department of Historical Sciences of the University of Chile. Between 2016 and 2022 he was Editor of Meridional Revista Chilena de Estudios Latinoamericanos. In 2014 he was invited to the Brown International Advanced Research Institute of Brown University, United States. He is a member of the Ibero-American Network of History of Psychiatry.

Claudia Pedone is an independent researcher at CONICET at the Gender Studies Research Institute (IIEGE), University of Buenos Aires. PhD in Human Geography from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Between 2005 and 2013 she was Director of the Migration Department at the Institute for Children and the Urban World, Barcelona.

Steven Bermúdez is a professor and researcher at the University of Zulia (Maracaibo-Venezuela). Bachelor of Arts, with a degree in Literature and postgraduate studies in Theoretical Linguistics. PhD in Language and Literature Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain. 2006). He completed a postdoctoral degree in Human Sciences at the University of Zulia (2011). Has participated, as a speaker, in scientific events in Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, etc.

Néfer Muñoz-Solano is a graduate of the School of Communication of the University of Costa Rica. He worked as a journalist for the newspaper La Nación of Costa Rica, the news agencies Inter Press Service and Europa Press, as well as for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in London. He was president of the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents of Costa Rica (APEX). He received the annual scholarship from the Inter American Press Association (IAPA).