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Cristina Alcalde
Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
Miami University
Education/Degree:
1 Anthropology (Indiana University)
About
As Vice President for Institutional Diversity and Inclusion, Dr. Alcalde is charged with providing an integrated, holistic vision of diversity, equity, and inclusion and strategic direction at Miami University. Prior to joining Miami, she served as Associate Dean of Inclusion and Internationalization in the College of Arts and Sciences and Marie Rich Endowed Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Kentucky. She also designed and served as Director of the Online Graduate Certificate in Diversity and Inclusion at the University of Kentucky. She has been an invited visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Lima, Perú, and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, Germany. She also previously served as faculty at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology and M.A. in Latin American and Caribbean Studies from Indiana University, an B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Louisville.
Current Work
As a gender and women's studies scholar, anthropologist, and diversity scholar-practitioner, her research areas include racialization, gender, migration, gender violence, and exclusion. She is the co-editor of two forthcoming books, Dismantling Institutional Whiteness: Emerging Forms of Leadership in Higher Education and #MeToo and Beyond: Global Perspectives. She is also the author of Peruvian Lives across Borders: Power, Exclusion, and Home, The Woman in the Violence: Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru, La mujer en la violencia, and the co-editor of Provocations: A Transnational Reader in the History of Feminist Thought. She has published widely in journals including Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism; the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology; Latin American Perspectives; Journal of Consumer Culture; Latino Studies; Global Networks; and Sexualities. She's also written for Inside Higher Ed and Ms. Magazine.
Research Area Keyword(s)
exclusion, racialization, belonging