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Maria Moreno

Lecturer
Global Cultures & Languages
University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Maria Moreno

Lecturer

Global Cultures & Languages

Specialty area(s)

Racism and Anti-Racism

Gender in Latin America

Ecuador, Andes 

Brief biography

Dr. María Moreno Parra is an Ecuadorian anthropologist. Her work is at the intersection of gender, racism and anti-racism, and decolonial feminisms in Ecuador and Latin America. She was a postdoctoral researcher in the project Latin American Anti-Racism in “Post-Racial” Age, LAPORA), University of Cambridge.

Current courses at UWL

Beauty and its Intersections in Latin America

Indigenous Women of Latin America 

SPA 201

Education

PhD University of Kentucky

BA Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

Career

Research and publishing

2024   Moreno Parra, María. "Calling Racism by its Name: Forms of Violence in the Articulation of Omission of Racism in Ecuador." Ethnic and Racial StudiesDOI 10.1080/01419870.2024.2329342

2023   Moreno, María. Dar Significado a la Justicia Racial. Usos Simbólicos de la Ley en las Luchas Antirracistas. En Contra el Racismo. Movilización para el cambio social en América Latina. Bogotá: Ediciones Uniandes.

2022   Coba, Lisset and María Moreno. “The Pachamama in the Vatican’s Garden: Economy, Life and Climate Change in the Pan-Amazonian Synod.” Special issue on “Climate Change, Gender, and Authoritarianism: Entanglements of Anti-Feminism and Anti-Environmentalism in the Far-Right”. Australian Feminist Review DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2022.2062670

2022   Moreno, María. Giving Meaning to Racial Justice. Symbolic Uses of Law in Anti-Racist Struggles. In Against Racism. Organizing for Social Change in Latin America, edited by Mónica Moreno Figueroa and Peter Wade, pp. 145-166. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press.

Kudos

published

Maria Moreno, Global Cultures & Languages, authored the article "Calling racism by its name: forms of violence in the articulation or omission of racism in Ecuador" in Ethnic and Racial Studies published on April 11 by Taylor & Francis.

Submitted on: April 12