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Sofia Zaragocin

Co-Director, Coordinator Gender and Territory Institute for Advanced Studies in Inequalities (IASI)
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  • Ph.D. in Geography, University of Cambridge, England.
Professional Profile

Sofia Zaragocin holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania (USA). She has two master's Degrees in Gender: one from the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO- Ecuador) and another from the University of Cambridge (England), where she also obtained her PhD in Geography. She is Co-Director and Coordinator of the Gender and Territory research line at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Inequalities at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador), where she is also a full-time research professor in the Department of International Relations. Her lines of research are decolonial feminist geography, geographies of the global south and the scale of the hemispheric and anti-racist geographies. She has written 26 indexed articles in Spanish and English and co-edited two books. Additionally, she is part of the editorial board of renowned journals such as "Antipode", "Gender Place and Culture", "Political Geography", among others.

Interests

Walking, Writing, Travel