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Social Sciences Division
Professor & Chair
Faculty
Sociology Department
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas
Winter 2026: Thursdays 4-6pm
Merrill/Crown Faculty Services
Professor Falcón is an award-winning author and educator. She is a Professor and Chair of Latin American and Latino Studies and the founder/director of the Human Rights Digital Investigations Lab at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her first book Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activists inside the United Nations [University of Washington Press, 2016] won the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize from the National Women’s Studies Association. Her second book is Human Rights Counterpublics in Perú: Contesting Tiers of Citizenship [University of Illinois Press, 2024]. She is the co-editor of Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship [Rutgers University Press, 2021] and New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights [Routledge, 2011]. She is also the co-editor of Feminismos: Agentes de Cambio en Perú, Testimonios de Lideresas Feministas (Feminisms: Women Changemakers in Peru, Testimonies of Feminist Leaders). Kimochi Soluciones Editoriales in Lima, Perú, 2024.
Professor Falcón is the recipient of the 2020 Golden Apple Award for outstanding teaching in the Division of Social Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She was a consultant for the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, its causes and consequences, Ms. Rashida Manjoo. In 2022, she proudly spearheaded and led a 12-month campus campaign to rename the Research Center for the Americas at UC Santa Cruz in honor of civil rights and feminist icon Dolores Huerta.
- Transnational Feminism
- Human Rights
- Peru
- Qualitative Feminist Methods
- Transitional Justice in Latin America
Select Awards, Honors, Grants
2024-2026 President, Sociologists for Women in Society.
2024-current PI, Mellon Foundation, "Dolores Huerta's Legacy and Shaping the Future of Latinx Studies at an HSI Campus,” $1M.
2022-23 PI, New Venture Fund, Public Interest Technology, "Institutionalizing and Expanding the UC Human Rights Digital Investigations Network To Support Frontline Environmental Defenders," $180K
2020 Golden Apple Winner for outstanding teaching in the Division of Social Sciences, UC Santa Cruz.
2020-23 Co-PI, UCOP Multi-Campus Research Programs and Initiatives, ""The UC Network for Human Rights and Digital Fact-Finding," $200K
Books Only
SOLE AUTHORED BOOKS
Human Rights Counterpublics in Perú: Contesting Tiers of Citizenship. University of Illinois Press, 2024.
Power Interrupted: Antiracist and Feminist Activism Inside the United Nations (University of Washington Press, 2016).
**WINNER of the National Women’s Studies Association Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Award**
Co-EDITED BOOKS
Co-edited & authored. Feminismos: Agentes de Cambio en Perú, Testimonios de Lideresas Feministas (Feminisms: Women Changemakers in Peru, Testimonies of Feminist Leaders). Kimochi Soluciones Editoriales in Lima, Perú, 2024. Includes co-authored introduction.
Co-editor, Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (Rutgers University Press, 2021).
Co-editor, New Directions in Feminism and Human Rights (Routledge, 2011). Paperback version released in 2015.