Marian Orjuela
Marian Orjuela is a doctoral candidate in sociology and member of the interdisciplinary HCIAS Doctoral Research Group “Communication and Society in Ibero-America”. Marian holds a scholarship of the Landesgraduiertenförderungsprogramm of the State of Baden-Württemberg. She also coordinated the area of Publications and Knowledge Transfer at the HCIAS.
Marian has been a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge (United Kingdom). She holds a master’s degree in Sociology from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil), and a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from the Universidad del Norte (Colombia). Marian has additional training in human rights, science communication, and health from the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Latin American and Caribbean Centre for Health Sciences Information (BIREME), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Marian is a member of the EU-LAC Women's International Network (EU-LAC Foundation), the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) as well as a research associate and editor of Research Committee 48 (RC48) “Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change” and RC42 Social Psychology at the International Sociological Association (ISA).
Research
Her research approach is interdisciplinary and draws on the sociology of social inequalities, gender and race studies, peace and conflict studies, social movement studies, sociology of culture, sociology of stigma, sociology of risk, communication for social change and global public health.
Research in Progress
- Women's leadership in the Colombian Amazon: forms of protection developed by human rights defenders in contexts of violence and conflict. Doctoral research carried out by Marian Orjuela.
- Socioecos. Marian is a researcher of the international project Socioecos “Building sustainable society. Mobilization, participation, and management of socio-ecological practices”. The project aims to analyze the socio-ecological practices developed in Europe and Latin America through an interdisciplinary framework.
Teaching Assistant
Summer Semester 2024:
- Seminar „Debates Across World Regions: Socio-Ecological Transformations in Energy and Food“
Summer Semester 2023
- Seminar "Migration, Border Regimes and Language Identities: Theories, Methodologies and Current Debates"
Summer Semester 2022
- Seminar "Migration, Border Regimes and Language Identities: Theories, Methodologies and Current Debates"
Congress participation
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CONTACT
MariAn Orjuela
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies | HCIAS
Brunnengasse 1, 69117 Heidelberg
Email: maria.orjuela(at)uni-heidelberg.de