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About
Iblin Edelweiss Murillo Lafuente is a sociology researcher and instructor at the Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law. She is a transnational feminist and a Ph.D. candidate with a certificate from the Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies at the University of Florida, USA. She earned her M.A. in Sociology at the University of Toledo in Ohio, USA, and her bachelor’s degree in communications studies at the Bolivian Catholic University in La Paz, Bolivia.
Edelweiss was born in what is officially called La Paz, Bolivia. Her most recent research focuses on anti-ableist feminist movements in the global south. Some of her recent publications include Spaces of Anti-Ableist and Feminist Resistance. (Space and Culture, 2023); Knitting an autoethnography. In Global Feminist Autoethnographies During COVID-19 (pp. 250-262. Routledge, 2022); Dys-Feminicide: Conceptualizing the Feminicides of Women and Girls with Disabilities. (Sociation Today, 21). She believes in kindness and social change.
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Education
- Ph.D., Sociology, University of Florida (In progress)
Committee: Rebeca Hanson (chair), Yao Li, Heather Vrana, Tanya Koropeckyj-Cox.
Dissertation: “Anti-ableist feminist resistance: How women with disabilities in the Global South resist violence. Experiences of women with disabilities and allies in feminist social movements.” - M.A., Sociology, University of Toledo, (2020)
Committee: Karie Peralta (chair), Ally Day, Shanna Arps
Dissertation: “Experiences of Bolivian Disabled Activist Women” - B.A., Communications Studies, Universidad Católica Boliviana, 2015
Committee: Rafael Loayza (Chair), Guadalupe Cajías.
Thesis: Social construction of Suma Qamaña discourse.
Teaching
- SYG 2000: Principles of Sociology
- SYD 3395: Sociology of Globalization
- SYA 4930: Sociology of Social Movements (prepared syllabus)
Invited Lectures
- Women with disabilities participation in Social Movements at the Institute for Learning in Retirement in Gainesville, FL. (2024)
- Transnational Feminist Research in Dr. Esther Hernández-Medina’s class at Pomona College (2024)
- Participatory Action Research in Dr. Roberta Villalon’s class at St. John’s University, New York City. (2024)
Research
- Transnational Feminisms and Decolonial Studies
- Policing in Latin America
- Critical Disability Studies
- Gender
- Participatory Action Research
- Ethnography
- Qualitative Methods.
Contact
Iblin Edelweiss Murillo Lafuente
Email: imurillolafuente@ufl.edu
PO Box 117330
Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611