Dr Andrea Espinoza Carvajal

In her doctoral research titled ‘Cuesta arriba y siguiendo el chaquiñán. Indigenous women’s path through violence in plurilegal Ecuador’, Andrea examined indigenous women’s interaction with two legal systems (state law and indigenous justice). Her work asked questions about indigenous justice, women’s rights, and inequality reproduction based on gendered and racialised expectations. As part of her research, she presented a photographic exhibition to open a discussion about hybridity in the Ecuadorian Andes. She also developed an arts-based research project titled 'Portraying Indigenous Women: Between Endurance and Resistance'funded by the Visual Embodied Methodologies (VEM) network.

In 2022, Andrea joined the ‘Connecting Three Worlds: Socialism, Medicine and Global Health After World War II’ research team as a postdoctoral fellow with a project enquiring how socialism has shaped and continues to shape sexual and reproductive health rights in Latin America, particularly in Ecuador. Her research project focused on the circulation of political discourses from governments and political leaders vis-à-vis the narratives created by feminist unions and socialist committees.

Andrea teaches a course on Gender and Society.