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Affiliated Faculty

Sylvanna Falcon
  • Pronouns she, her, her, hers, herself
  • Title
    • Professor
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Latin American & Latino Studies
  • Affiliations Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas, Sociology Department, Institute for Social Transformation
  • Phone
    000-000-0000
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • , Merrill College
  • Office Hours Wed, 4-6pm on Zoom (Fall '24): Email for link.
  • Mail Stop Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
  • Mailing Address
    • Faculty Areas of Expertise Human Rights, Activism, Border Studies, Community-based Research, Violence and Violence Prevention, Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Latin American and Latino Studies, Sociology, International and Global Affairs

    Research Interests

    Human rights, racism/antiracism, globalization, gender, transnational feminism, Latin America (Peru), United States

    Biography, Education and Training

    Faculty of the Department of Latin American and Latino/a Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

     

    Affiliated faculty of Sociology.

     

    Founder and director of UC Santa Cruz's Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas and co-founder of the University of California Digital Investigations Network.

    Honors, Awards and Grants

    2024: President-Elect, Sociologists for Women in Society

    Mellon Foundation Grant

    2020: Golden Apple Teaching Award, Division of Social Sciences

    2016 Gloria Anzaldúa Book Award, National Women’s Studies Association

    Woodrow Wilson National Foundation's Career Enhancement Postdoctoral Fellow
    UC Humanities Research Institute Grant
    UC Center for New Racial Studies Grant

    UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow

    Selected Publications

    (Books only)

    Human Rights Counterpublics in Perú: Contesting Tiers of Citizenship (University of Illinois Press, 2024).

     

    Feminismos: Agentes de Cambio en Perú, Testimonios de Lideresas Feministas (book in Spanish and published by Kimochi Gestión Cultural, a feminist publisher in Lima, Perú, 2024). Co--edited with Shelly Grabe and Adriana Maroto Vargas. Includes co-authored introduction.

     

    Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship with co-editors Catherine S. Ramírez, Juan Poblete, Steven C. McKay, and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer (Rutgers University Press, 2021). Includes co-authored introduction.

     

    Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism Inside the United Nations (University of Washington Press, 2016). Includes a teaching guide. WINNER of the National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa Book Award.

     

    Co-editor, New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights, Routledge, 2011.  Paperback version released in 2015.