Dr. Adriana Rincón-Villegas is an Individualized Studies Tutor in the GLM program at Athabasca University (GOVN/POLI 301 and GOVN/GLST/POLI 440), and an Assistant Lecturer of Political Science at University of Alberta. She holds a PhD in Global Governance and Human Security from University of Massachusetts Boston, a MA in Geography from University of Georgia, and a Law degree from Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (Colombia). Dr. Rincón-Villegas received the UMB-GGHS Excellence in Dissertation Research Award 2021, UMB-SSRC Transdisciplinary Dissertation Proposal Development program award 2017, and DAG Chandra Sriram Early Career fellow 2019 of the Dialogue Advisory Group in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Her research interests include the politics of the Global South, decolonial feminism, critical approaches to peace and transitional justice, and discourse analysis.
Research interests
Latin America
Gender
Intersectionality
Critical approaches to transitional justice
Peace and conflict studies
Decolonial feminism
Critical discourse analysis
Educational credentials
PhD Global Governance and Human Security, UMASS Boston
MA in Geography, University of Georgia
Bachelor in Laws, Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia
Lupien, P., A. Rincón and S. Machaca (2027). Voices of Resilience: Indigenous Women's Political Struggles in the Andes. Advance contract with McGill-Queens University Press. [Book Manuscript Submitted].
Rincón-Villegas, A. On the Coloniality of Peace in the age of Human Rights, In: E.H. Chowdhury, and R. Srikanth (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights, Routledge, Second Edition (In Review).
Rincón-Villegas, A, Kew, D. & Russell-Einhorn, M. Rise of the Global Human Rights Regime: Challenging Power with Humanity, In: Chowdhury, Elora Halim and Srikanth, Rajini (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights, Routledge, Second Edition (In Review).
Lupien, P., A. Rincón, A. Lalama, S. Machaca, G. Chiriboga. (2024). #Resistencia: Indigenous Movements, Digital Technologies, and Mobilization. Latin American Research Review. https://doi.org/10.1017/lar.2024.4
Lupien, P., Rincón, A., Lalama, A., & Chiriboga, G. (2022). Framing Indigenous protest in the online public sphere: A comparative frame analysis. New Media & Society.
Lupien, P., A. Rincón, F. Carrera, and G. Lagos (2021). Early COVID-19 policy responses in Latin America: A comparative analysis of social protection and health policies. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 46 (2), pp.297-317. DOI: 10.1080/08263663.2021.1917823
Rincón, A., C. Sánchez, and J. Pugh (2019) Transnational governance, international organizations, and national and local peace processes: The case of the UN and ICC in Colombia. In: Kulnazarova, Aigul and Vesselin Popovski (Eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Global Approaches to Peace, Palgrave Macmillan, Chapter 27, 561-584.
Rincón, A. (2018) On the Human Right to Peace in Times of Contemporary Colonial Power, In: E.H. Chowdhury, and R. Srikanth (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights, Routledge, Chapter 17, 285-296
Kew, D., M. Russell-Einhorn, & A. Rincon Villegas (2018) Rise of the Global Human Rights Regime: Challenging Power with Humanity, In: Chowdhury, Elora Halim and Srikanth, Rajini (eds.) Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Rights, Routledge, Chapter 2, 35- 49.
Burnett, C., and A. Rincón, A., (2017) Human Security and Gender Development: A Comparative Analysis of Internal Displacement in Colombia and Palestine. Refugee Review 3 (1) 137-149.
Rincón, A. and A. Ross (2016), Justicia transicional y ley: el caso colombiano [Transitional Justice and Law: the Colombian case]. In Bernd Marquardt (Ed.). Paz a través del Derecho y de la Constitución [Peace through Law and the Constitution], Anuario IV, Serie Constitucionalismo Científico (625- 643) Bogotá, Colombia: Editorial Ibañez and Grupo Constitucionalismo Comparado.