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Amaral Arévalo

AMARAL ARÉVALO

As part of the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and Law (PPGSD/UFF), she is conducting postdoctoral research on dedemocratization, sexual citizenship, and human rights of LGBTI+ people in El Salvador and Brazil, led by Eder van Pelt, funded by FAPERJ. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fernandes Figueira Institute (IFF/FIOCRUZ), under the supervision of Suely Deslandes, on homicides and violence against LGBTI+ people in El Salvador. She holds a postdoctoral degree from the Institute of Social Medicine at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2019) under the supervision of Sérgio Carrara, with a study on the organization of the sexual and gender diversity movement in El Salvador. She holds an international doctorate in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies from Universitat Jaume I, Spain (2013), recognized in Brazil by the University of Brasília in the area of ​​Education (2015). He has experience in education, with an emphasis on managing community development projects with young people, men, the LGBT population, and displaced populations; improving the educational quality of rural schools, community-based early childhood education, adult literacy, job training, university teaching, and promoting a culture of peace through audiovisual media with young people. His research interests include LGBT Studies, Violence, and Culture for Peace. He is a collaborating researcher at the Latin American Center for Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM/IMS/UERJ). He is an associate researcher at the Institute of Historical, Anthropological, and Archaeological Studies at the University of El Salvador. He is a member of the Center for Studies on Gender, Sexuality, and Health (GENSEX/IFF/FIOCRUZ). He is a member of the Working Group (2016-2026) El istmo centroamericano: perspectivas epistemológicas periféricas of the Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO). In 2022, the book “Dialogando con el Silencio: disencias sexuales y de gênero en la historia salvadoreña” was published, which recovers 255 years of the history of sexual and gender dissidence in El Salvador, between the years 1765 to 2020. E-mail: arevalo.amaral@gmail.com

Address to access this curriculum: http://lattes.cnpq.br/8903584911767268.

Publications: 

1) Arévalo, A. (Coor.) (2025). Ciudadanías sexuales vivibles en América Latina y El Caribe. Buenos Aires: Clacso.

2) Ortíz, S. & Arévalo, A. (Eds.) (2025). Corporalidades combativas: Género y sexualidades en la Guerra Interna salvadoreña (1970-1992). San Salvador/Rio de Janeiro: IEHAA-UES/FIOCRUZ-IFF. https://www.ues.edu.sv/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2025/02/Libro-Completo-Corporalidades-combativas-Genero-y-sexualidades-en-la-Guerra-Interna-.pdf

3) Arévalo, A.; Rocha, D.; Ríos, J. & Rojas, L. (Eds.)  (2022): Saberes LGTBI+: Alteridades sexuales centroamericanas en el bicentenario. Buenos Aires: Clacso. https://www.clacso.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Saberes-LGTBI.pdf

4) Arévalo, A. (2022). Dialogando con el silencio: disidencias sexuales y de género en la historia salvadoreña 1765-2020. San Salvador: Editorial Universitaria. https://editorial.ues.edu.sv/dialogando-con-el-silencio/

5) Arévalo, A. (2021). Cuerpos en lucha, derechos en disputa: fundamentalismos y ataques a defensores de derechos humanos en Centroamérica. Bogotá: On the Right Track/Fcam. https://www.fondoalquimia.org/sites/default/files/2023-03/retando_futuro.pdf

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