CURRICULUM VITAE
Education
2023 PhD in Peace Studies and History, University of Notre Dame
Dissertation Title: Violentology: Expert knowledge and government peacebuilding in Colombia 1958-1990
2020 M.A. History, University of Notre Dame
2017 M.A. Ethnic Studies, Colorado State University
Thesis Title: State narratives of war and peace in Colombia (2002-2016).
2017 Graduate Certificate Women’s Studies , Colorado State University
2010 B.A. Anthropology, National University of Colombia, Bogotá Colombia
Thesis Title: Memory in scene and the Movement of State Crimes’ Victims
Professional Appointments
2023-Present Technical Writer and Communications Specialist Jr., Venezuela Respuesta e
Integración (VRI), USAID Activity implemented by Chemonics International
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2023-Present Lecture Professor, Department of Political Science, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana,
Bogotá, Colombia
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2011-2014 Professor, Center of Education for Development, University Minuto de Dios, Zipaquirá, Colombia
Teaching and Research Experience
2019-2021 University of Notre Dame, Peace Accord Matrix (PAM) Project, Research Assistant
2018/2021 University of Notre Dame, Teaching Assistant
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2015-2017 Colorado State University, Teaching Assistant
Awards, Honors and Fellowships
2022 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame
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2022 Outstanding Graduate Student TA/Instructor Award, Kaneb Center,
University of Notre Dame
2017 Darby Fellowship, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame
2016 Patsy Boyer Scholarship, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research,
Colorado State University
2015 Hiram and Trudi deFries Scholarship, Ethnic Studies Department,
Colorado State University
Research Grants
2022 AGH Professionalization Grant, History Department,
University of Notre Dame
2022 Graduate Research Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts,
University of Notre Dame
2022 Summer Research Grant, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame
2021 Summer Research Grant, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame
2021 Graduate Research Grant, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts,
University of Notre Dame
2021 DGS Research Grant, History Department, University of Notre Dame
2020 Summer Research Grant, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame
2019 Summer Research Grant, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame
2019 Graduate Research Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies,
University of Notre Dame
2018 Graduate Research Grant, Kellogg Institute for International Studies,
University of Notre Dame
2018 Summer Research Grant, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame
Conference Panels and Presentations
2023 “La Paz Frentenacionalista y los Estudios de la Violencia en Colombia durante los
Sesenta Globales”
Latin America and Caribbean Conference 2023 International Studies Association (ISA)
Bogotá, Colombia
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2022 “Acuerdos Parciales de Paz en Colombia 1984-2012”
Diplomado “Implementación de Acuerdos de Paz y el Caso Colombiano”
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia
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2021 30 Years of the National Constitutional Assembly: The ideal amid the storm. Bogotá, Colombia.
“La Asamblea Nacional Constituyente como Escenario de Construcción de Paz” ("The National Constitutional Assembly as Peacebuilding Scenario"
Co-authored with Isabel Güiza Gómez.
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2019 XIX Congress of Colombian History. Armenia, Colombia.
“La Paz como Democracia: Una historia intelectual” “(Peace as democracy: An Intellectual History”)
2018 1st Summer Program on Teaching Peace, Business Ethics and Social Innovation
Panel: “Making a Compelling Case for Peace Studies (To Faculty, Deans, Students, Donors, and the Media)”
2018 First Year Graduate Conference, Department of History, University of Notre Dame.
““We do not want violence, we do not want force, we want power for the masses”: Camilo Torres Restrepo and the Question of Violence in Colombia’s Sixties”
2016 Ethnic Studies Research Center Conference, Department of Ethnic Studies, Colorado State University.
“Duty to forgive, permission to forget: State narratives on victimhood in Colombia”
Professional Affilliations
Research Center Pluralizar la Paz
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Kellogg Institute of International Studies
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