Meet Luisa Turbino Torres, 2026 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipient

Luisa Turbino Torres (she/they) is an assistant professor with a joint appointment in political science and women, gender & sexuality studies at Florida Atlantic University, where she also serves as Senior Associate Director of the Leon Charney Diplomacy Program. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Delaware in 2022 and completed her B.A. and M.A. at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in her native Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her research examines transnational feminist activism, social movements, and the politics of sport in Brazil and Latin America, drawing on interpretivist and ethnographic methods developed through fieldwork with feminist soccer collectives in Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, and Recife. Her work develops the concept of “fandom activism” to explain how women soccer fans mobilize for socio-political change. She is currently completing her first book, The Politics of Being a Soccer Fan: An Ethnographic Perspective on Feminist Activism Around Soccer in Brazil.