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Biography
Yesenia Barragan is a Ph.D. candidate in Latin American History at Columbia, where she is a recipient of a Richard Hofstadter Faculty Fellowship. Her primary research interests concern colonial Andean history, in the region which now forms modern-day Colombia. She is interested in studying political and social environmental history, gender and sexuality, violence and conflict, and the African Diaspora in Latin America.
A native of New Jersey and a self-described member of the Colombian diaspora, Yesenia received her A.B., Magna Cum Laude, with Honors, from Brown University in Political Philosophy and Ethics and Latin American History in 2008. Her Senior Honors Thesis, “Woman as Mother, Woman as Other: The Political Philosophy of Luisa Capetillo,” received the Marjorie Harris Weiss Memorial Premium Prize from the History Department and Dean of the College. She is also the recipient of various awards and fellowships, including the Beinecke Scholarship, the Davis Putter Scholarship, the Union Plus Scholarship, the C.V. Starr Fellowship for Public Service at Brown University, among various others.
At Brown, she received the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, awarded to outstanding students of color pursuing PhDs in the social sciences. She remains committed to working with students from underrepresented populations and eradicating racial disparities in higher education. When she’s not knee-high in books, she enjoys painting, community organizing, learning new languages, and dreaming of a more just and peaceful Colombia.
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