Graduate Student, Department of Social Sciences
Universidad de Antioquia, Instituto de Estudios Regionales INER
King's College London, International State Crime Initiative, International State Crime Initiative
PhD Student Sociology, Antropology and Gender
Social Sciences
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Suzanne Clisby
Melissa Dearey |
About
Yoana is a PhD Student within the Social Sciences Department of the University of Hull, supervised by Dr Suzanne Clisby and Dr Melissa Dearey. In 2008 she was awarded an Erasmus Mundus scholarship to join the European Masters of Excellence in Women and Gender Studies (GEMMA), which she completed in 2010 with a double degree from the University of Hull (UK) and the University of Granada (Spain). Her MA dissertation, Engendering Colombian ex-guerrilleras’ personal narratives: Women guerrilla fighter’s experiences of becoming, being and leaving the armed struggle, received a high distinction. Yoana also holds a MA in History (distinction) from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and a BA in Social Communication and Journalism from the Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia).
Yoana is member of the research group Gender, Subjectivity and Society from the Instituto de Estudios Regionales de la Universidad de Antioquia (INER) and from 2001 onwards has participated as a researcher in different research projects on gender and political violence, engendering DDR processes, and Truth, Justice, Reconciliation and Reparation in Colombia. In 2006 she co-authored the Book Mujeres No Contadas, with Luz Maria Londono, an account of the transition of ex-female guerrilla combatants demobilized in Colombia between 1990 and 1994 from the armed groups to civil life.
Yoana’s research interests are: gender and political violence, anthropology of violence, memory, literatures of the unspeakable, and critical theory.
