Dr. Elizabeth S. Corredor, PhD (she/they/ella)

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I am a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bryn Mawr College. 

I received my Ph.D. from Rutgers University in Political Science in 2021. I have an M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Chicago (2006), and a certificate in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Rutgers University (2018).

My research and teaching are interdisciplinary and rest at the intersections of Political Science; Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Sociology; Latin American Studies; and Peace and Conflict Studies.

My book manuscript, based on my APSA award-winning dissertation, examines how gender shaped Colombia’s 2010–2016 peace process with the FARC. It argues that peace negotiations are temporary gendered institutions, governed by formal rules and informal masculinized norms that shape access, authority, expertise, and legitimacy.

The book moves beyond counting how many women were present at the table to examine how women’s and LGBTIQ+ actors worked inside and around the negotiations to transform a gender-blind process into one that produced a landmark gender perspective in the final peace agreement. Yet it also shows that the process never became fully gender-transformative: gender expertise was undervalued, gender work was siloed, and the burden of achieving and defending inclusion continued to fall primarily on women’s and LGBTIQ+ actors.

Emerging from my book project, I also study how anti-gender and anti-trans mobilizations contribute to epistemological and ontological violence & insecurity within the state and at the grassroots level. I am interested in understanding how these campaigns attempt to destabilize and erase identities and knowledge systems in both public discourse and policy.

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