Elizabeth Corredor, Bryn Mawr College
Project Title: Fixing Gender: Authoritarianism, Knowledge, and the Politics of Epistemic Control
Elizabeth Corredor is a visiting assistant professor of political science at Bryn Mawr College. She received her Ph.D. in political science from Rutgers University in 2021. She also holds an M.A. in Latin American studies from the University of Chicago (2006) and a certificate in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality studies from Rutgers University (2018). Her research and teaching are interdisciplinary, situated at the intersections of political science; women’s, gender, and sexuality studies; trans studies; sociology; Latin American studies; and peace and conflict studies.
Her book manuscript, based on her award-winning dissertation, argues that to fully understand the gendering of peace negotiations and agreements, we must examine not only how many and which women are at the table, but also the gendered and spatial logics embedded in peace processes. Using the 2010–2016 Colombian peace process as a case study, she draws on an original framework that traces the efforts, locations, and gendered logics of both women’s and LGBTIQ+ groups, as well as those of the formal negotiation table. Her analysis reveals how these agendas were accepted, co-opted, and/or resisted within the negotiations and the final agreement.
Emerging from this book project, Dr. Corredor also studies how anti-gender and anti-trans mobilizations contribute to epistemological and ontological violence and insecurity, both within the state and at the grassroots level. She is particularly interested in how these campaigns attempt to destabilize and erase identities and knowledge systems through public discourse and policy.
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