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Marian Orjuela

HCIAS PUBLICATIONS COORDINATOR

Marian Orjuela is a Ph.D. researcher in Sociology and a scholarship holder of the Landesgraduiertenförderungsprogramm of the State of Baden-Württemberg. She is also a member of the interdisciplinary HCIAS Doctoral Research Group “Communication and Society in Ibero-America” and HCIAS Publications and Knowledge Transfer Coordinator.

Marian 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). She 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).

Maria Angel Orjuela

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.

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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 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"

HCIAS PUBLICATIONS AND KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

The Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies is committed to producing knowledge on the social, cultural, ecological, and communicative complexity of Ibero-America and to transferring it into the scientific communities and to society at large. For this purpose, the HCIAS runs its own publications series in different formats:

HCIAS Working Papers on Ibero-AmericaHCIAS Podcast

HCIAS BlogHCIAS Newsletter

CONTACT

MariAn Orjuela

Bergheim Campus Office
Heidelberg University, Building 4311
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies - HCIAS
Bergheimer Str. 58a
Office hours: Tuesday, Wednesday 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Tel.: +49 (0)6221 54-19329
E-Mail: maria.orjuela(at)uni-heidelberg.de

HCIAS Publications Team

Heidelberg University
Heidelberg Center for Ibero-American Studies - HCIAS
Bergheimer Str. 58a | Brunnengasse 1, 69117
E-Mail: publications(at)hcias.uni-heidelberg.de