Diana Barrero (she/her)

PhD Candidate

Email: diana.barrero@mail.utoronto.ca

Website:
www.dianabarrero.com

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Areas of Interest

• Transnational feminism
• Gender and Education
• Peacebuilding and Transitional Justice
• Cultural Studies
• Critical race theory

Biography

Diana M. Barrero Jaramillo (she/her) is a feminist researcher, educator, and organizer. She is currently completing her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto with a collaborative specialization in Women and Gender Studies. Her scholarship brings an interdisciplinary lens to the understanding of gender, race and culture in the production and justification of social (in)justice and (in)equality. Her teaching and research interests expand three areas: First, the way that marginalized individuals and groups resist and challenge injustice; second, the way that cultural practices create opportunities for people to imagine themselves differently; and third, the role of educational and cultural institutions in the (re)production of inequality. Her contributions have been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Education Policy Analysis Archives and in an edited collection on global citizenship education from Routledge. Currently, she works as an Associate Editor of Curriculum Inquiry, where she supports early career and established scholars navigate the publication process.

Program: PhD 

Education

MA in Curriculum Studies with a collaborative specialization in Comparative, International, and Development Education, University of Toronto

Honours Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Toronto

Dissertation

Supervisor: Dr. Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández

Presentations

The Interplay of Affect and Embodiment in Columbian Women’s Textiles, The Fourth Annual Critical Femininities Conference, Online, August 16-18, 2024

Memory and the Nation: The Aesthetization of Violence in Post-Conflict Colombia. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference. Bogota, Colombia, June 12-15, 2024

Con Hilo y Aguja: Colombian Women (Re)making Zones of Extraction through Textile-based Narratives. Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Conference. Vancouver, Canada, May 24 – 27, 2023

Si El Norte Fuera el Sur/If the North Were the South: Examining Other(ed) Truths and Connections Across the Globe. American Educational Research Association (AERA) Presidential Session. Chicago, April 13-16, 2023

Truth-Telling and Exile: A Roundtable Discussion on the Work of the Colombian Commission for the Clarification of Truth, Coexistence and Non-Repetition in Canada [Roundtable w/ García, E., Gruner, S., LeGrand, C. & Riaño-Alcalá, P.]. The Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS). Online, August 23-26, 2022

Selected Works

Barrero Jaramillo, D. M. (2024). In Defense of Solidarity and Pleasure: Feminist Technopolitics From the Global South. Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/23326492241238946

Barrero Jaramillo, D. M. (2023). Achievement as white settler property: How the discourse of achievement gaps reproduces settler colonial constructions of race. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 31. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.31.7131

Bickmore, K. & Barrero, D. (2022). Globalized Local Environmental and Resource Conflicts in Mexican and Canadian Youths’ Lives and Schooling: Silenced Citizenship Questions. In Kubow, P., Strong, K., Webster, N. & Miranda, D. Contestations of Citizenship: Children and Youth, Democracy, and Education in an Era of Global Change. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197881-6

Nayak, P., & Barrero, D. (2021). Re-imagining difference in the pedagogical encounter. Curriculum Inquiry, 50(5), 373-377.

Barrero, D. (2021). How Latin American feminists shifted global understanding of gender-based violence. The Conversation Canada. Retrieved from https://theconversation.com/how-latin-american-feminists-shifted-global-understanding-of-gender-based-violence-173121

Honours and Awards