¡Hola!
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I am Andrea Roman Alfaro [two last names] (she/ella). I am a Peruvian Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of Toronto. My work has been supported by the Vanier Candada Graduate scholarship, the Ontario Graduate Scholarship, the Connaught Public Impact Fellowship, the Mary H. Beatty Fellowship, and the School of Cities Graduate Fellowship at the University of Toronto.
I come from the Quechua 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 currently reside in Tkaronto [Toronto], 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 by studying the social structures that make violence possible. I focus on three main questions:
1) What are the cultural ideas and processes that allow us to make sense of violence? 2) How do class, race, and gender affect our experiences of violence? 3) How do we 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 been published in Gender & Society, Social Justice, Curriculum Inquiry, and the International Journal of Education for Social Justice.
My dissertation, titled Interconnected Violence: Life and Death at the Urban Margins of Peru, examines how women from marginalized urban neighbourhoods in Peru make sense of and respond to the interconnection of different forms of violence. I study neighbourhood violence dynamics and connect women’s everyday experiences of violence to government policies that shape violence at the urban margins.
My dissertation, titled Interconnected Violence: Life and Death at the Urban Margins of Peru, examines how women from marginalized urban neighbourhoods in Peru make sense of and respond to the interconnection of different forms of violence. I study 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. I am the General Vice President of CUPE 3902, the union that represents more than 10,000 academic workers at the University of Toronto. I am also a co-founder of La Casa Juvenil - Puerto Nuevo, a youth community centre in Puerto Nuevo (Callao, Peru) that offers a space for children and adults to come together to learn and spend a good time. You can support the work that we do here.
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