Carolina Arango-Vargas, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality Studies
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Carolina Arango-Vargas. PhD (Syracuse University, 2018) is a feminist anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department in COEHD and in the Interdisciplinary School for Engagement in COLFA. Her research focuses on political agency, violence, and feminist activism among women's organizations in Colombia, with a particular emphasis on feminismos populares and a broader interest in Latin America and the Global South. As a postdoctoral fellow with the Democratizing Racial Justice project (2021-2024), she played a key role in fostering community-university partnerships to advance racial justice in San Antonio. Dr. Arango-Vargas collaborated with Ethnic Studies scholars and Chicanx/Latinx activists to co-create place-based, decolonial, and feminist pedagogies through initiatives like the Peoples’ Academy, the Ethnic Studies Educator Academy, and the Decolonizing Education workshop. She has published in Latin American Perspectives and Ethnic Studies Pedagogies, as well as in the edited volume Las Emociones de Ida y Vuelta: Experiencia Etnográfica, Método y Conocimiento Antropológico (UNAM), with her book manuscript currently in progress. She received the Helen Safa Essay Award from the Latin American Studies Association Feminist Section in 2020 and the Inter American Foundation Grassroots Development Fellowship in 2013. Dr. Arango-Vargas teaches interdisciplinary courses on Transnational Feminism, Feminist Theory, and Feminisms in Latin America.
