Dissertation title: “Encultured sociabilities: Exploring the relationship between psychosocial scaffoldings, resilience and culture”.
Supervisors: Sandra Jovchelovitch, Alex Gillespie.
Research interests
My research focuses on psychosocial development during adolescence and young adulthood, and how this process unfolds in different socio-cultural contexts. After working for 7 years doing research on mental health and the experiences of disease among culturally diverse populations in the United States, I became deeply interested in studying how cultural traditions and social practices shape the human psyche and how, in turn, these minds maintain and transform the socio-cultural contexts they inhabit. I have conducted research on moral development, identity formation, and resilience among indigenous children in Perú, Afro-descendants and internally displaced young adults in Colombia, and undocumented young adults in the U.S.
My doctoral work explores the intersubjective processes fostering resilience among vulnerable youth in two socio-cultural contexts (Colombia and the UK). I hold a master’s degree in the social sciences from the University of Chicago and a degree in clinical psychology from the Pontifical Catholic University of Perú.