AMARAL ARÉVALO
Within the Graduate Program in Sociology and Law (PPGSD/UFF), he is conducting a postdoctoral research project on de-democratization, sexual citizenship, and the human rights of LGBTI+ people in El Salvador and Brazil, under the supervision of Eder van Pelt, funded by FAPERJ. He 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. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Social Medicine of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (2019), supervised by Sérgio Carrara, with a study on the organization of the sexual and gender diversity movement in El Salvador.
He holds an international PhD in Peace, Conflict and Development Studies – Universitat Jaume I, Spain (2013), 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 with youth, men, LGBT populations, displaced populations; improving educational quality in rural schools, community-based early education, adult literacy, vocational training, university teaching, and promoting a culture of peace through audiovisual media with youth.
His research lines are 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). He is also an associate researcher at the Institute of Historical, Anthropological and Archaeological Studies at the University of El Salvador. He is a member of the Gender, Sexuality and Health Research Group (GENSEX/IFF/FIOCRUZ). He is also 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, recovering 255 years of the history of sexual and gender dissidence in El Salvador, from 1765 to 2020.
Contact information: arevalo.amaral@gmail.com
Link to Lattes CV: http://lattes.cnpq.br/3869189885356221
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