Marisa Ruiz Trejo

Marisa Ruiz Trejo

Adjunct Faculty

Biography

Marisa Ruiz Trejo is a feminist anthropologist, writer, journalist, and transfeminist activist from Chiapas, Mexico. Full-time professor at Universidad Autónoma de Chiapas (UNACH). She directed the Cultural Diversity Studies and Social Spaces Master's Program (2017-2019) at IEI UNACH. She is a current Visiting Fulbright Scholar at NYU CLACS and its Feminist Constellations Platform, and an Adjunct Faculty at the Anthropology Department of NYU.

She got a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Latin American Studies, at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and was a visiting scholar at the Anthropology Department of New York University (2014 and 2019) and the Ethnic Studies Department of California, Berkeley (2012). In 2016, she contributed to the reports on racism, genocide, and sexual violence against q'eqchi' Indigenous women in the Sepur Zarco case in Guatemala. This is the most significant legal case of sexual violence committed by the army during the genocide to be won in a domestic court in Guatemala.

Marisa Ruiz Trejo was also an ILAS Edmundo O’Gorman Fellow at Columbia University.  She is a professor at the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). 

Currently, she works on the recovery of life and the life stories and work of women in the field of anthropology in Chiapas and Central America. She is part of the Feminist Pluridiversities Collective (Pluriversidades Feministas), an autonomous and feminist educational endeavor. 

AREAS OF RESEARCH/INTEREST

Gender and Feminist epistemologies, theories, methodologies, and practices; women in anthropology; anthropology of anthropology; feminist anthropology; decolonizing anthropology; transfeminisms; body and emotions in research; Chiapas and Central America. 

Book Publications

Feminist Anthropologies in Mexico: epistemologies, ethics, practices, and diverse views (co-edited with Berrio, Castañeda, Goldsmith, Ruiz Trejo, Salas, and Valladares) (UNAM, UAM-I, UAM-X, and Editorial Bonilla, 2020), 

Decolonize and depatriarchalize the Social Sciences, memory, and life in Chiapas, Central America, and the Caribbean (2020, UNACH), and

Make a body pa we Uwach Ulew u b’iam América Latina (AVANCSO, Guatemala-UNACH, 2021).

 

Articles in Academic Publications

Ruiz Trejo, Marisa (2021). "Feminist ethnographies in Mexico: criticisms of the new generations of anthropologists". Alteridades, 63, January-June 2022. Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. https://alteridades.izt.uam.mx/index.php/Alte/article/view/1227

Ruiz Trejo, Marisa (2021). Two pioneers in anthropology in Chiapas and Guatemala. Liminar, CESMECA-UNICACH, 29, (1), pp. 1-23. https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?pid=S1665-80272022000100308&script=sci_arttext

Ruiz Trejo, Marisa and García Dauder, Dau (2021). A journey through emotions in feminist research processes. Empiria: Journal of social science methodology, Nº 50, pp. 21-41. https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=7847912

Ruiz Trejo, Marisa (2021). Feminist Anthropologies Facing Terricide and Transfeminist Thought in Mexico. In: Goldsmith, M. and Salas, M., Bulletin of the College of Ethnologists and Social Anthropologists (CEAS) of Mexico, Feminist Anthropologies pp. 13-23. ISSN: 2007-2414. https://www.ceas.org.mx/documentos/BoletinCEAS2021AntropologiasFeministas.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2fI0l6gm7D5u58du5pzWVHy-ZbauQDgLtE1uaCILVAi58sasrM2_zFVMs

Ruiz Trejo, Marisa and García Dauder (2019). Epistemic-corporeal workshops: putting strong reflexivity into practice, Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 2:1, 42-58, ISSN: (Print) 2572-9861 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/25729861.2019.1664070?needAccess=true  

Ruiz Trejo, Marisa (2018).“Contributions to Feminist Anthropology in Chiapas. Interview with Mercedes Olivera”. In Abya-Yala: magazine on access to justice and rights in the Americas. V.2, N.1. 2018. ISSN 2526. University of Brasilia, Brazil.http://periodicos.unb.br/ojs311/index.php/abya/article/view/10756/9449

Casaús, Marta and Ruiz Trejo, Marisa (2017). "Processes of justice and reparation: the case against "Sepur Zarco" for sexual violence, rape and domestic slavery in Guatemala and its paradigmatic sentence for international jurisprudence." Pacarina del Sur, year 8, no. 30, January-March, 2017. PP. 1-31. ISSN: 2007-2309. http://pacarinadelsur.com/home/indoamerica/1436-procesos-de-justicia-y-reparacion-el-caso-sepur-zarco-por-violencia-sexual-violacion-y-esclavitud-domestica-en-guatemala-y-su-sentencia-paradigmatica-para-la-jurisprudencia-internacional .

Ruiz Trejo, Marisa (2016). "Approaches to critical feminist studies of the social sciences in Mexico and Central America". Clepsydra Magazine: Journal of Gender Studies and Feminist Theory, Volume 15. University of La Laguna. PP. 11-34 ISSN: 1579-7902 https://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/6308 .

Ruiz Trejo, Marisa and Betemps, Caroline (2014), "Intersecting feminist epistemologies and practices: the possibilities of translation and its decolonial importance", Journal of International Relations of the Autonomous University of Madrid. October 2014. Number 27, Feminisms in International Relations. Academic quarterly magazine (electronic publication). Group of Studies of International Relations (GERI). Coordinators of the number: Jorge ESTÉVEZ, Marta MATO and Lucrecia RUBIO Law School, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain. ISSN 16993950. 169-179 https://revistas.uam.es/index.php/relacionesinternacionales/article/view/5243.