¡Hola!
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My name is Andrea Roman Alfaro [two last names] (she/ella). I am a Peruvian mestiza Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Toronto, a Vanier CGS scholar, a Connaught Public Impact Fellow, a Mary H. Beatty Fellow and a graduate fellow at the School of Cities at the University of Toronto.
I come from the territories that are now called Peru. I was born and raised in the coastal province of Callao, but my family roots are in the Peruvian northern Andes, northern Lima, and the south of Spain. I grew up in Callao and, at the same time, was immersed in the Andean practices and traditions of my grandmother and her siblings at a young age. I currently reside in Tkaronto, the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and the traditional territory of the Huron-Wendat and the Haudenosaunee peoples. |
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My research agenda examines the relationship between social inequality, violence, and resistance in three main focus areas:
1) The cultural ideas and processes that allow people to make sense of violence.
2) How class, race, and gender affect people’s experiences of violence.
3) How people respond, resist, and heal from violence.
Together, these focus areas contribute to understanding the dynamics of violence and the social structures that make violence possible.
I publish in English and Spanish. My work has appeared in the International Journal of Education for Social Justice, Curriculum Inquiry, Social Justice, and Gender & Society.
My dissertation titled, Interconnected Violence: Life and Death at the Urban Margins of Peru, examines how women from Puerto Nuevo, a marginalized urban neighbourhood in Callao, Peru, make sense of and respond to the interconnection of different forms of violence. I examine neighbourhood violence dynamics and connect women’s everyday experiences of violence to government policies that shape violence at the urban margins.
1) The cultural ideas and processes that allow people to make sense of violence.
2) How class, race, and gender affect people’s experiences of violence.
3) How people respond, resist, and heal from violence.
Together, these focus areas contribute to understanding the dynamics of violence and the social structures that make violence possible.
I publish in English and Spanish. My work has appeared in the International Journal of Education for Social Justice, Curriculum Inquiry, Social Justice, and Gender & Society.
My dissertation titled, Interconnected Violence: Life and Death at the Urban Margins of Peru, examines how women from Puerto Nuevo, a marginalized urban neighbourhood in Callao, Peru, make sense of and respond to the interconnection of different forms of violence. I examine neighbourhood violence dynamics and connect women’s everyday experiences of violence to government policies that shape violence at the urban margins.
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I am a scholar and activist who combines research with community work and advocacy. I firmly believe in the transformative power of engaged scholarship. Thus, I spend a lot of my time working with community, collectively responding to social justice issue, and creating new alternatives for a more just future. As a result of my dissertation research, I am currently working with a group of young people from Puerto Nuevo (Callao) with whom we have created Puerto Nuevo's first young people-led community house. La Casa Comunitaria Juvenil - Puerto Nuevo (aka La Casa de Al Fondo) offers a space for kids and young adults to come together to learn and spend a good time. You can support the work that we do here.
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