The Department of Gender Studies is delighted to welcome Dr. Tyanif Rico Rodríguez as a new permanent faculty member.
Dr. Tyanif Rico Rodríguez is a sociologist and geographer. She holds a master's degree in agrarian social studies from FLACSO-Argentina and a master's degree in social sciences from El Colegio de Michoacán in Mexico. In 2021, she received an honorable mention for her doctorate in geography from UNAM. Her areas of expertise are environmental humanities and feminist perspectives on modern, complex approaches to the relationship between society and nature. As a feminist, interdisciplinary scholar, her research focuses on multi-species, community-based care strategies amid socio-environmental conflict. She explores concepts of care, territoriality, and posthumanism, particularly in Latin America. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher investigating the role of affects in strategies of collective and territorial care in a peasant context. She has conducted research and taught in Mexico, Colombia, and Germany.