Catalina Velasquez | Department of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Graduate Student

Contact Information

PDL B111

Office Hours

By appointment

Fields of Interest

Critical Refugee Studies Decolonial Studies Feminist Methods and Methodologies Feminist Pedagogy Latin American Law and Political Thought Political Economy Transgender Studies Transnational and Indigenous Feminisms

Biography

M.A., Feminist Studies, University of Washington, 2020

B.S., International Politics: International Law, Norms, & Institutions, Georgetown University, 2011

Catalina’s research focuses on transnational relations, decolonial methodologies, following forced migration patterns, pursuing refugee justice, across-difference solidarity building, historicizing U.S. and Latin American foreign policy, engaging transgender and queer theory, and tracing political economies.

Research

Selected Research

Catalina Velasquez, Keynote Speaker, 2019 UndocuQueer Conference, University of Washington, Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center.

Courses Taught

Spring 2022

GWSS 374 A: Introduction to Transgender Studies

Winter 2022

Additional Courses

GWSS 345 Winter 2021: Women and International Economic Development.
GWSS 328 Autumn 2020: Gender & Sexuality in China;
GWSS 353 Winter 2020: Feminist Anthropology;
GWSS 374 Autumn 2019: Introduction to Transgender Studies;

Affiliations

Home Department

Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies

Catalina Velasquez (She/Her/Hers)