Congratulations to our associate member Dr. Andrea García González who has been awarded the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project ‘Memory Reimagined: Gender and Intersectionality in Participatory Memory Configuration’.

The interdisciplinarity of the project and its contribution to future research in conflict and peace studies has been highly regarded by the evaluation committee. Andrea worked on the application during her ESRC postdoctoral fellowship that she carried out at the University of Brighton’s Research Centre SECP. Before that, Andrea was an AHRC Techne funded doctoral student at CMNH where she completed her PhD dissertation “Reconciliation in the Basque Country: Examining the impact of gender dynamics in a post-conflict society”.

Andrea’s new postdoctoral fellowship will be developed between the University of Granada in Spain and the University of Los Andes in Colombia. Exploring the context of the Colombian peace process, her project will undertake an ethnographic study of a communitarian museum developed in cooperation between the Colombian National Museum and an organization of transgender activists in a marginalized neighbourhood of Bogotá. This research will use methods from different disciplines including feminist anthropology, critical museology, memory studies, and decolonial epistemologies. Through the co-production of knowledge with participants in the project and the development of knowledge exchange with relevant stakeholders, this project highlights the potential of memory initiatives to transform social inequality and reduce the continuation of entangled forms of violence.