María José Méndez Gutiérrez
First Name:
María José Méndez
Last Name:
Gutiérrez
Email :
maria.mendez@utoronto.ca
Title:
Assistant Professor
Biography :
Her book project examines the gendered political economy of transnational gang violence in Central America. As part of an SSHRC-funded international team, María is working to document and commemorate the history of the Salvadoran Civil War. Recent publications: Acuerpar: The decolonial feminist call for embodied solidarity in Signs (2023) and Studying Gangs in Central and South America: Reflections on Gender and Researcher Positionality in The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society (2024).
Education:
BA, Vassar College
PhD, University of Minnesota
People Type:
Research Area:
Areas of Interest:
- Political violence in and against the Global South
- The illicit global economy
- Critical development studies
- Feminist theory and methods
- Anticolonial and decolonial thought
