Adriana Marcela Pérez-Rodríguez (she/her/ella)

PhD Candidate

Email: am.perez@mail.utoronto.ca

Areas of Interest

• Border studies
• Transnational feminism
• NGOisation
• Citizenship
• Governance
• Latin American feminist movements

Biography

I am a Colombian feminist researcher. I am researching how an entanglement of actors (international humanitarian agencies, Colombia state institutions, national NGOs and local NGOs) produce a humanitarian subject and the Colombian-Venezuelan border as a site of crisis and intervention. Prior to my PhD studies, I co-founded and directed the Observatorio de Asuntos de Género de Norte de Santander, an organisation dedicated to feminist research and advocacy. I was also a columnist for the local newspaper La Opinión.

Program: PhD 2022

Education

BA Politics and International Relations, University of Reading

MA Gender Studies, Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Dissertation

Supervisor: Alissa Trotz

Presentations

“Pedagogías de la insistencia: reflexiones sobre la investigación feminista sobre la violencia de género en la zona roja”, Latin American Studies Association Conference. Bogotá, Colombia. June 12-14, 2024.

TEDx Talk (forthcoming) "El feminismo es como una enredadera" (Feminism Is Like a Climbing Plant).

IX Interamerican Congress Against Human Trafficking, organised by Lawyers Without Borders. Invited speaker: “Human Trafficking in the Context of Human Mobility: a Human Rights-Based Approach”. Bogotá, Colombia, 2022

Venezuelan Migrants in Colombia: an Inclusive Humanitarian Response? Organised by the Humanitarian Practice Network. Invited panelist: “Gender-Based and Feminist Approaches in the Context of Venezuelan Migration in Norte de Santander," 2022

Selected Works

Garcés Amaya, D. P., & Pérez Rodríguez, A. M. (2025). The visual economy of migration and the production of crisis. Two cases in question: Norte de Santander and the Darien. Ethnicities, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14687968251364360

Pérez Rodríguez, A. M. (2024). A plea for rage and joy: Colombian feminist protests and their power for making utopia. Feminist Review, 137(1), 76-86. https://doi.org/10.1177/01417789241257261

“Gender-Based Violence in a Migrant Context: a Case Study of Norte de Santander” in Humanitarian Exchange Magazine (2022), issue 80.

“Reclaiming their Right to Appear: the Gender Studies Research Group, from the Free University of Colombia, as Maker of Oppositional Knowledge” in Pérez & Trujillo-Barbadillo (ed.) (2020) Queer Epistemologies in Education. Luso-Hispanic Dialogues and Shared Horizons.

Honours and Awards