Roxana Escobar Ñañez

PhD Student, (she/her)
roxana.escobar@mail.utoronto.ca

Fields of Study

  • Culture & History
  • Social & Political Geography
  • Urban

Areas of Interest

Black geographies, feminist geographies, Latinx decolonial geographies, historical geographies of Latin America/Abya Yala.

Working Dissertation

Title

Peña Las López: Decolonial and Black women’s geographies in Lima

Supervisors

Matt Farish
Tamara Walker

Biography

Roxana Escobar Ñañez is an Afro-Peruvian Ph.D. candidate in Human Geography. She also holds a B.A. in Philosophy and a M.A. in Political Science by the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, and M.Ed in Social Justice Education from OISE-UofT. Roxana’s research focuses on the places Afro-Peruvian women hold in Lima’s sonic landscapes. With her project, Roxana seeks to contribute to the geographic knowledge production about Black womanhood in Latin America.

Roxana’s professional experience includes six years of teaching at undergraduate and graduate levels, public service in the Peruvian Ministry of Education, and several research projects covering a wide range of topics related to intercultural education, feminist theories, and issues regarding Afro-descendants in Latin America.

Education

2017- PhD. Human Geography, University of Toronto Collaborative program in Women and Gender Studies Supervisors: Matt Farish and Tamara Walker
2015-2016 M.Ed.Social Justice Education- Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
2010-2012 M.A. Political Science and Government --Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
2004-2009 B.A Philosophy-- Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

Cohort

  • 2017-2018