AMARAL ARÉVALO
As part of the Graduate Program in Sociology and Law (PPGSD/UFF), a postdoctoral research project is being conducted on de-democratization, sexual citizenship, and the human rights of LGBTI+ people in El Salvador and Brazil, under the direction of Eder van Pelt and funded by FAPERJ. He previously completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Fernandes Figueira Institute (IFF/FIOCRUZ), under the supervision of Suely Deslandes, focusing on homicides and violence against LGBTI+ individuals in El Salvador. He also 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, where he studied the organization of the sexual and gender diversity movement in El Salvador. He earned an international Ph.D. in Peace, Conflict, and Development Studies from Universitat Jaume I, Spain (2013), officially recognized in Brazil by the University of Brasília in the field of Education (2015). He has experience in the field of education, with an emphasis on managing community development projects involving youth, men, the LGBT population, and displaced populations; improving the educational quality of rural schools; community-based early childhood education; adult literacy; vocational 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 on Sexuality and Human Rights (CLAM/IMS/UERJ) and an associated researcher at the Institute of Historical, Anthropological, and Archaeological Studies of the University of El Salvador. He is a member of the Research Group on Gender, Sexuality, and Health (GENSEX/IFF/FIOCRUZ), as well as a member of the Working Group (2016–2026) El Istmo Centroamericano: Perspectivas Epistemológicas Periféricas of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO). In 2022, the book “Dialogando con el Silencio: disidencias sexuales y de género en la historia salvadoreña” was published, which recovers 255 years of sexual and gender dissidence history in El Salvador, from 1765 to 2020.
For contact: 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