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Maria Gabriela Palacio

(she/her)
Assistant Professor in Development Studies, Leiden University

I am an Assistant Professor (University Lecturer) in Development Studies at the Latin American Studies Programme - Institute for History. My work interrogates conventional approaches to (economic) development by engaging with questions of identity, difference, and power. Situated within development studies and informed by political economy, anthropology of the state, and sociology of gender and race; it seeks to understand how social policy shapes social and political identities. Most of my empirical research has focused on Ecuador, though I have written more broadly about Latin America.

Experience

  • 2015–present
    Assistant Professor | Development Studies, Leiden University

Education

  • 2017 
    International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam, PhD in Development Studies